💻 #102: Build a Stunning 3D Website like Apple with Three.js and GSAP 🔮
Plus a music trivia game, recipe de-clutter app, and a movie quote directory
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Who doesn’t like scrolling on the Apple website? It’s so sleek and sophisticated.
This weekend’s tutorial will have you learning how to create your own website with beautiful scroll animations.
Tutorial of the week:
Length: 4 hours
This weekend’s tutorial is by JavaScriptMastery, they consistently put our great tutorials on web development.
What you’ll learn this weekend:
Three.js 🔮
GSAP ⚡️
3 frontend projects of the week:
Use these projects to inspire future projects of your own. They aren’t meant to be unicorns, they’re meant to be personal projects. Something you might use a few times and show off to family and friends.
1. Music Nerd
A you a true fan? Enter your favourite artist and this project plays have seconds of the song and you have to match it to the correct song.
2. Only The Recipe
I would say the two most common beginner projects are either to do lists or recipe projects. Here’s a recipe project that clears all the clutter and neatly shows the ingredients and steps. Nicely done.
3. Play Phrase
Ever have a movie quote stuck in your head but you can’t remember where you heard it? Well this website takes a search term and finds clips from shows and movies that match it. Very impressive.
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Useful (free) resources
Here are some excellent beginner resources for learning JavaScript
Mozilla Developer Network - the leading resource on JS
FreeCodeCamp - free course
CodeAcademy - intro to javascript - free course
Odin Project - full stack javascript - free course
Eloquent Javascript - book (many people struggle with this book)
javascript.info - reference resource
Traversy Crash Course in Javascript - video series
Intermediate/advanced material
JavaScript Design Patterns - free book
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming - free book
What the heck is the event loop anyway? - JSConf talk about the event loop
Understanding the Weird Parts - paid course covering more advanced topics
Deep JavaScript: Theory & Techniques - free book
Software
Code Sandboxes
Other handy sites