Modern JavaScript

This month we get much more hands-on with some smaller topics:

# Take a small old-style JS app (Backbone.js based), make the source code modular, and introduce modern JS features in a pragmatic way
https://github.com/DunedinJS/migrating-to-modern-js

# Get up and running with a React starter project
https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app
We'll continue to use this in future workshops too

# An introduction to testing with Jest
http://facebook.github.io/jest/

Homework:

BYO laptop with Git and Node.js 6.9 installed.
Follow the instructions here:
https://github.com/DunedinJS/dunedin-modern-javascript/blob/master/topics/common/nodejs-install.md

Also have a text editor with first-class JavaScript support -- Atom, VSCode, and Sublime Text are best.