JavaScript in the Browser
Master DOM, Events, and Browser APIs
Learn how JavaScript interacts with the browser. This course covers DOM manipulation, event handling, user input, asynchronous behavior, and browser APIs — giving you the skills to create dynamic, interactive web pages.
About This Course
You’ll start by learning how the browser works under the hood 🛠️, exploring the DOM and how JavaScript connects with HTML and CSS. From there, you’ll dive into events and interactions, mastering the art of capturing clicks, forms, and user input to build dynamic, interactive UIs.
Next, you’ll peel back the curtain on timing and execution, uncovering how the event loop, timers, and async behavior make JavaScript tick ⏱️. You’ll then learn how to work with data and networking, using the Fetch API, understanding AJAX’s legacy, and tapping into powerful browser APIs like localStorage and geolocation 🌍.
But building apps isn’t just about features — it’s also about resilience. You’ll learn how to gracefully handle errors and keep your UI smooth even when things go wrong 🛡️.
Finally, you’ll put it all together: designing a simple frontend architecture, building a small project that ties everything together, and then zooming out for a big-picture look at frameworks. You’ll see why libraries like jQuery were game-changers historically 📜 and get an overview of the modern ecosystem of frameworks and libraries 🪶.
By the end of this course, you’ll have the confidence to:
• 🎯 Manipulate the DOM and control the browser environment
• 🖱️ Handle events and build interactive user experiences
• ⏳ Understand the event loop and asynchronous behavior
• 🌐 Fetch and store data with modern browser APIs
• 🏗️ Structure code for maintainability and scalability
• 🔎 See where frameworks fit into the bigger picture of frontend development
👉 If you’re comfortable with the basics of JavaScript and ready to master how it powers the browser, this course will give you the tools, insights, and confidence to take your web projects to the next level.
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Course Roadmap
Many JavaScript tutorials focus on isolated exercises or syntax examples without showing how the language interacts with the browser.
This course takes a different approach. You’ll learn DOM manipulation, event handling, forms, and asynchronous behavior in context — seeing how JavaScript powers dynamic, interactive web pages.
The curriculum is structured as a step-by-step journey — each lesson builds on the last so you can confidently control the browser and prepare for more advanced front-end development.
Meet Your Instructor
Hi, I’m Bob Cravens — a software developer, consultant, and educator with years of experience building and maintaining real-world web applications.
I run a technology consulting company where I help clients design, build, and evolve production systems. That experience directly shapes how I teach. The patterns, tradeoffs, and decisions you’ll see in this course aren’t theoretical — they’re the same ones I use when building software that has to be understood, maintained, and extended over time.
I created this course because too many tutorials show JavaScript in isolation, without explaining how it interacts with the browser. Understanding the DOM, events, and asynchronous behavior is key to building dynamic, interactive web pages.
My goal with this course isn’t just to teach syntax or features, but to help you see how JavaScript powers the browser, so you can write clean, maintainable, and responsive front-end code.
If you want a clear, practical foundation in browser-based JavaScript that prepares you for interactive UI development and advanced front-end work, this course is designed for you.
If you want to get in touch, shoot me an email bob.cravens@tekfoundry.com.
Why This Series?
Many JavaScript tutorials either focus on isolated exercises or skip over how the language interacts with the browser. That can be useful for reference — but it doesn’t help you understand how to build dynamic, interactive web pages.
This series takes a different approach.
Instead of jumping between disconnected examples, you’ll explore browser-based JavaScript concepts in a structured, step-by-step way. You’ll learn how to manipulate the DOM, handle events, work with forms, and manage asynchronous behavior, seeing how everything fits together in real-world scenarios.
The videos are intentionally thorough. Not to waste time — but to show complete thought processes, explain subtle browser behaviors, and illustrate practical, interactive examples — the kind of depth short tutorials often skip.
By the end of the series, you won’t just know browser JavaScript APIs — you’ll understand how to reason about interactions, build responsive front-end code, and confidently tackle more advanced front-end development or framework-based projects.
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