Ask an Expert: Chat with Ania Kubow about TypeScript, YouTube, Twitter and more!

Scrimba ยท Beginner ยท๐Ÿ› ๏ธ AI Tools & Apps ยท4y ago
๐ŸŽ“ View our courses: https://scrimba.com/links/all-courses This week, we chat to web developer, YouTuber and Scrimba teacher Ania Kubow about her upcoming Typescript course, her phenomenal YouTube journey and her experience of growing an audience on Twitter. ๐Ÿ‘พ Contents ๐Ÿ‘พ 0:00 - Introduction 2:30 - Upcoming course preview 5:10 - How important is it to learn TypeScript? 6:38 - What are the benefits of using TypeScript over vanilla JS? 9:34 - Do you use TypeScript for your React apps by default or does that depend on the app? 10:55 - Would the developer experience have been different if youโ€™dโ€ฆ
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Chapters (25)

Introduction
2:30 Upcoming course preview
5:10 How important is it to learn TypeScript?
6:38 What are the benefits of using TypeScript over vanilla JS?
9:34 Do you use TypeScript for your React apps by default or does that depend on th
10:55 Would the developer experience have been different if youโ€™d built this in vani
12:40 How much JavaScript do we need to know before we can learn TypeScript?
14:00 Does TypeScript replace JavaScript completely?
15:35 Is TypeScript easy if you are fairly good at JS, or is it a nightmare?
17:05 Do you prefer working with frameworks like Bootstrap or tools like Sass where
19:05 What are the views on Django vs React?
20:05 Do you have any favourite projects to do to get out of tutorial purgatory?
22:00 When working with JavaScript, do you prefer functional programming or โ€œclasses
23:12 What about Svelte vs React?
24:10 What inspired you to start a YouTube channel?
26:32 Do you have my courses on Udemy? If not, where else other than YouTube?
27:14 Should I learn TypeScript before learning React, or JS to React directly?
28:55 What has been the key to your phenomenal growth on YouTube?
30:50 How did you build a Twitter audience?
32:00 What is static typing in TypeScript?
32:38 What do you think is the correct thing to learn after HTML, CSS and JS?
34:28 What do you wish you could tell your past self before you started YouTube?
36:08 Is it necessary to have both a Twitter and a YouTube following, or is just one
37:18 I have been kicked out of two React/JavaScript jobs because I lack knowledge.
38:45 Do you ever have troll

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