If using Droidscript solely for coding what all will be best to learn?

[Jess Wardell]

Right now I am running through:
freecodecamp + rimthschool to learn frontend potentially full stack programming.

However, I am preferring js over learning php etc. and have kind of switched my gearers as my resources (tech) to use for coding right now due to budget is:
android based phone/tablet
32bit arm chromebook (wish it was 64bit would make things so much better lol but its a chromebook plus had it for a few yrs now)

So If i can do everything I am looking to do via android based along side using termux and andronix that would be amazing.

I found the odin project to learn full stack javascript so my question with that is:
1. could I use droidscript to do full stakc js?

the second thing is I am using the ghost platform (instead of wp like in the past) and plan on developing themes for the platform which uses handlebar js so my question is:
2. could i use droidscript as my coding terminal to code for a handlebar.js file type etc.?

Now I plan on doing premium in droidscript to help support it (best option to support droidscript and get some extra features lol) and use it as my sole tool (for the most part or completely if possible):
3. I know i need to learn droidscript, html5, javascript, css3, node.js, and firebase(?)... is there anything else?

I'm learning more towards being extremely proficient with droidscript and getting hired by people to utilize it etc.(if that would be possible) and html5/js games and things like that.

Thanks for the help want to make sure if I am able to really leverage droidscript I am doing so and learning anything and everything I can that will be useful.

[Alan Hendry]

Jess,

There are a load of different needs out there, and loads of tools.

html, js, css are needed to produce pages that function in a web browser (lots of libraries like jscript, angular, bootstrap, lots of examples to copy)

DS is good for writing apps that run on a Android phone/tablet (and Webview can use html, css, js),

and can "talk" to Databases, web servers (JSON); for me the learning curve is much shallower than other IDEs/AJAX/etc

but DS doesn't (yet) support apps on iPhone/iPad.

There is still a place for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) in centralized backend (shared/large volumes of data).

Regards, Alan H

[Dave]

If you are planning to use DS long term, I recommend learning NodeJS instead of PHP (or as well as).  We will be releasing a simple NodeJS cloud platform in the coming months which will allow you to do full stack development inside the DS Wifi IDE.

[Kallikratidas]

Wow, these are really good news!

[Jess Wardell]

This is awesome to hear.

[Jess Wardell]

Hey Dave, I may have missed maybe the release of the simple NodeJS and if I did my apologies :). I am curious if there is any eta on this aspect. As I'm getting to the point where I am almost confident enough to do FSD as a freelance service and would prefer to just stick with droidscript for it along with any android app work that I do. Thanks

[Dave]

Hi Jess,

You haven't missed it... it's just delayed due to the Corona Virus.

Hopefully we will have a beta version out soon after the release of V2 of DS (which contains some BIG changes)