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5 Fun Projects to Master ES6 Javascript Basics in 2025 ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

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Mastering ES6 is all about practice! Here are 5 beginner-friendly project ideas that will help you solidify your ES6 skills while having fun:

  1. ๐Ÿ“Build a To-Do List App
    What Youโ€™ll Practice:
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Arrow functions for event handlers.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Template literals for rendering tasks dynamically.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Modules for organising task logic.

  2. ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ Create a Weather App
    What Youโ€™ll Practice:
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Promises and async/await to fetch weather data from an API.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Destructuring to extract API response data.
    Challenge: Use ES6 default parameters to handle user input errors.

  3. Design a Simple Quiz App
    What Youโ€™ll Practice:
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Classes to manage questions and scores.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Spread/rest operators for adding and managing quiz questions.
    Challenge: Shuffle questions using ES6โ€™s Array.from() and the spread operator.

  4. ๐Ÿ’ฌBuild a Random Quote Generator
    What Youโ€™ll Practice:
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Template literals for displaying quotes.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Modules to separate data and logic.
    Challenge: Fetch random quotes from an API using fetch() with async/await.

  5. ๐Ÿ›’Create a Shopping Cart
    What Youโ€™ll Practice:
    => Arrow functions for event listeners.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Map, filter, reduce to manage cart items and calculate totals.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Default parameters for handling empty cart scenarios.
    Challenge: Add a feature to update the cart total dynamically when items are added or removed.

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