Disoriented when writing JavaScript - Architectural Integration - Grockage
<p>I'm a reasonably experience programmer (10+ years), and have only hacked JavaScript.  I don't feel comfortable writing more than a few lines of it, but I'm seeing it more and more unavoidable to learn properly.</p>

<p>I get the same feeling writing JavaScript as I first did writing Unix shell scripts.  I didn't fully understand the environment, where things are going, and so forth.  It took a few well-timed suggestions to sort it all out.</p>

<p>I have a hard time with Js tools.  I'm okay with almost any text editor, but is there anything other than alert('foo') and Firefox error console to see what the heck is going on?</p>

<p>Ps. I have bought books.  Yes, I can write code snippits, but nothing sufficiently explained the whole paradigm. It's all code snippits, with no larger picture of how to integrate it architecturally with server side scripts, and not have to duplicate everything on the server side. </p>

<p>Maybe that's the answer. . write some on the server side?</p>

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<p>tl;dr AMA OO PHP programmer. how do I quickly and completely grok javascript/jquery? </p>
