How I stopped worrying and learned to love JavaScript (shoutout for fans of
cult classic 1960's movies).
I'm working on learning React which means I need to brush up on JavaScript.
As I hope many people here realize, a REPL like Python or Ruby comes with,
is a great way to experiment and solidify one's understandings of nuances of
different constructs. I also like to use the Python REPL, import requests,
and poke at third party REST APIs. It's like a more interactive curl.
<editing out rant about looking for a JavaScript REPL and how badly node
works on the command line with NVDA>
About at the end of my rope, I recalled hearing about deno
(https://deno.land). The scales have fallen from my eyes.
<editing out effusive praise for deno>
Indeed, deno has what seems so far to be a great JS REPL,
https://deno.land/manual@main/tools/repl. It works great with NVDA running
from a bash shell on Ubuntu 20.04 running on WSL2 on Windows 10.
In general, though I've only poked around for a day or so, deno seems like a
great project. The manual is very accessible and easy to navigate with
Firefox and NVDA.
Cheers,
Joel
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