Javascript

The UI is written primarily in Javascript, more specifically the version ES2015. ES2015 brings in a lot of features to the language that you can read more here:

1. https://babeljs.io/learn-es2015/
2. http://stack.formidable.com/es6-interactive-guide/#/

Why Javascript?

You may be wondering why we have to use Javascript for building a web application. Well, web applications are intended to be ran inside a Web Browser (e.g. Google Chrome). The reason for this is that we are continuing our User Interface development as a web application since last year there were no issues.

Learning Javascript

Here are some resources that you can use to learn Javascript:

1. You Don’t Know JS: ES6 & Beyond
2. Everything you wanted to know about JavaScript scope
3. What the heck is the event loop anyway?
4. Composition over Inheritance