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When I typed in the commands introduced in this exercise, I get the ‘warnings’ in the screenshot attached here. What do these mean? I imagine that these are different from errors, in that I don’t think I’ve messed anything up (e.g., syntax error). What types of situations would these warnings need to be addressed, and not just ignored?
Does anyone else feel that this section is very dry, very confusing, and generally not as helpful as the rest have been to this point in the web dev track?
I’ve tried rereading every section so far, it’s just so bland and there isn’t the context that’s usually provided, I honestly didn’t get anything from the entire “BROWSER COMPATIBILITY AND TRANSPILATION” section.
If anyone has recommendations for Youtube videos that would help with this section that’d be greatly appreciated!
I honestly feel this section should have been cut shorter as the exercises provide little value due to the fact that the majority of learners haven’t yet built any applications/websites with javascript.
I reckon it’s nice to know but somehow seems to sow unnecessary confusion at this stage.
Sooner or later everyone will have to cover/learn this but probably not before we have built something.
Better to look it up again once you reach a skill level in which you inevitably have to use the syntax and methods provided in this lesson.
I’m with you! I was with it as far as CanIUse, which looks like a good resource to remember for future use. And the historical / browser context was interesting.
But after that, I don’t know what I’m doing, and I don’t know why I’m doing it. It appears to assume a lot of knowledge that I don’t have, and I ended up just blindly copying and pasting command line code without understanding what was going on.
I don’t know why this module is here, but if needs to be here, it could probably use a review!
I felt exactly the same. I was cruising quite confidently through the previous material as it was very well laid out and informative, however I seem to have hit a wall with the node concepts. The section is really not well designed. There was no background info about node or bash shells.
I have found that if you make sure that you have ./package.json in your directory (which can be created by running npm init), then the node_modules does get created. From the babeljs.io website:
We can install Babel CLI locally by running:
npm install --save-dev @babel/core @babel/cli
Note: If you do not have a package.json , create one before installing. This will ensure proper interaction with the npx command.
“The install command creates a folder called node_modules and copies the package files to it”.I don’t understand this.What is a node_module and what is it used for?
After read the commentaries, i understand. I dont gonna pay 20 euros per month to Codecademy. The example is on that post. The people dont understand what that challenge mean, and it no any hint, no video tutorial. And you think to read it about the challenge , or ask some of developer who create that chalenge. But its nobody here to answer you!! So it gonna be dificult to learn something with Codecademy ,because you just dont understand what they want from you. Thanks for that free 3 month of course for free, but i dont gonna still studing here, and paying 20 euros per month. Try to be more pro guys!!!
Here is my screenshot. Yes, I would reset the lesson because somehow you are missing the node_modules.
By the way I’m on my second complete review of this chapter repeating all the lessons and the material is making a lot more sense the second time (and thanks to lots of helpful comments from the forum).
I am only a new student to Javascript, so I hope this helps but all of us really need a moderator to help clarify this chapter.
Thank you! Initialising first with npm init solved the installation problem! Still getting warnings about deprecated files, but at least the folders appear. That’s something
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