lodash.js API Tour

Introduction

Welcome to the lodash.js API tour.

In this workshop, you'll be introduced to lodash.js, which is a popular Javascript library that provides utility functions for interacting with collections (objects, arrays), strings, etc.

Our goals for this workshop are that participants gain:

Familiarity with the lodash.js library, including why you'd want to use it, and what you could use it for.
Hands-on experience using functions provided by lodash.js

Logistical Information

Date: Monday March 7th, 2016
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Location: American Philosophical Society - Franklin Hall - Fels Room
Led by: Bret Davidson, Kevin Beswick - NCSU Libraries

Workshop Structure

This workshop is divided into a lecture and a hands-on portion. The lecture will introduce the API, provide some context, history and use-cases, as well as introduce the format of the workshop. The hands-on portion will provide opportunity to explore the API using a Koans-style learning experience. First, you will learn some common methods in the API and practice applying them. Second, you will apply what you've learned to clean up a dataset which will be used to produce a visualization that may be useful in planning your post-conference social activities.

Schedule

Time	Activity
9:15-9:15am	Intro
9:15-9:45am	Lecture
9:45-10:00am	Technical Orientation
10:00-10:15am	Break
10:15-11:45am	Lab
11:45-12:00pm	Wrap-up/Evals

Workshop Content

Resources

lodash.js official website: The official lodash website where you can download the library, and find more information.
lodash.js API documentation: The lodash.js API documentation where you can find out about all lodash methods, including ones that we haven't looked at in this workshop.
lodash.js GitHub repository: Here is the code for lodash.js
Lodash: Chaining: Article describing the lodash chaining feature
Lodash Cookbook: E-book that provides an introduction to lodash