14 DAY TRIAL // Today is JavaScript.com's rebirth, coming back from the depths of the Internet to provide developers with a well-designed learning center and a comprehensive portal where they can get the latest news about their favorite programming language.
If you're familiar with the old JavaScript.com website, a service for sharing JS snippets with other users, you may also have known how the site has been going offline-online-offline for the past 5-6 years almost every month or so.
We know this for ourselves since our staff has been constantly blacklisting and then reactivating those snippets in our Webscripts section, and we can know stop checking to see what happened to one of the most beloved JavaScript portals of the old Web 2.0 era.
JavaScript.com, a new place to learn JavaScript online
According to the official press release, the good folks at Code School have managed to get their hands on the domain name and did every JS developer a great good by putting together a website worthy of a primetime domain like JavaScript.com.
The new portal is mainly aimed at people trying to learn JavaScript, featuring one of those easy to follow interactive learning guides the people at Code School are famous for.
Other learning resources are also included in a special section of the site, even from Code School's competitors, all aimed at helping users get started with both jQuery and Node.js, not just vanilla JavaScript.
An aggregator for all JavaScript news & articles
For experienced developers the site can still be very useful, being the place where they can listen to the FiveJS podcast, get the FiveJS newsletter, and also read the community news feed.
This feed is a simple news aggregator similar to what EchoJS is providing and looking very much like the old CSS Globe website that once was a mainstay in the life of every CSS aficionado.
Everyone with a GitHub account can submit news, and you can also keep track of all recent submissions via a simple RSS feed.
In a guest post on Digital Ocean's blog, the Code School team revealed how the site was built, and as you'd expect it runs on JavaScript, Node.js more precisely. You can go on there and read how modern websites are built these days, and what kind of infrastructure it takes to run a platform like this.
