JavaScript for the Web
Learn the programming language that powers interactivity on the web. Go from typing your first commands to building reactive interfaces and fetching live internet data.
Like Duolingo, but for JavaScript for the Web. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
23 levels across 4 sections, about 46 minutes end to end, roughly 9 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Making Things Happen on the Screen, Guiding the Flow of Logic, Structuring Data and Live APIs, and How JavaScript Works Under the Hood. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in JavaScript for the Web
- Every web browser includes developer tools with a built-in JavaScript console
- Typing code into the console executes it immediately and prints the result back to you
- The console acts as a throwaway scratchpad rather than permanently modifying a website's source code
- A variable stores a value under a reusable label
- Reassigning with '=' replaces the old stored value with a new one
- Performing an operation like adding 5 calculates a new number but does not change what is stored unless assigned back
- Wrapping anything in quotes tells JavaScript to treat it as plain text (a string), even if it contains digits
- Raw numbers without quotes can be used directly for math
- The unquoted keywords true and false represent yes-or-no state checks (booleans)
- JavaScript can target specific elements on an HTML page and rewrite their inner text
- Modifying page elements via JavaScript takes effect immediately in the live browser view
- A manual browser refresh actually resets the page back to its original HTML file instead of saving the changes
- The DOM is a live representation of the page kept in browser memory
- JavaScript updates the live browser tree instantly without touching the source HTML file
- document.querySelector uses standard CSS selector strings
- A hash symbol (#) targets an element id, a dot (.) targets a class name, and bare text targets a tag name
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives JavaScript for the Web the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What happens when you type a quick math problem into the browser console and hit Enter?
Get it right to open this lesson and 22 more in the app.
Where JavaScript for the Web takes you
- 1
Making Things Happen on the Screen
- Running Your First Code
- Responding to User Actions
- 2
Guiding the Flow of Logic
- Making Choices with Conditions
- Packaging Reusable Actions
- Handling Collections with Arrays
- 3
Structuring Data and Live APIs
- Modeling Reality with Objects
- Fetching Live Data Across the Network
- 4
How JavaScript Works Under the Hood
- Inside the JavaScript Engine
4 sections · 8 units · 23 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
JavaScript for the Web is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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