Advanced Javascript (Updated 2026) (Udemy.com)
Pass the senior JavaScript interview: closures, this, prototypes, async and the event loop, properly understood.
Created by: Asim Hussain
Last updated August 2026
What you will learn
- Answer the JavaScript questions an interview actually digs into, and know why the answer is the answer.
- Take the event loop apart frame by frame: the call stack, tasks and microtasks, nextTick versus setImmediate, and where the browser differs from Node.
- Work fluently across callbacks, promises, async/await, generators and async iterators, and know which one a problem is asking for.
- Explain this, closures, the scope chain, hoisting and the temporal dead zone without hand-waving.
- Predict what a piece of code prints before you run it, on the exercises that run through the whole course.
- Use the prototype chain and class syntax knowing exactly what one is doing on top of the other.
- Reach for the modern language properly: destructuring, spread and rest, iterator helpers, Map and Set, Symbols, BigInt and template tags.
How it compares
Against the other 239 rated Udemy courses in JavaScript on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 70% of them
- Reviews11,051#18 of 240 by number of reviews
- Length11.8 hourslonger than 76% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 96% of them
Course Description
There is a developer on every team who always knows why. When the bug makes no sense, when the async code fires in the wrong order, when nobody can explain what the this keyword is actually bound to... that is who everyone goes to. This course is about becoming that developer.
In around twelve hours you will go from writing JavaScript to genuinely understanding it: the difference between a good developer and the senior one in the room. You will dramatically improve your chances of getting past a technical interview, landing the job you actually want, and being paid what that developer gets paid.
If you are like me, you learnt JavaScript by muddling along: seeing what worked, picking up a thing or two every day. It gets you a long way (until it doesn't). Without the deeper fundamentals you hit head-scratching bugs, you find framework and library source hard to read, and in an interview you can hear yourself describing what happens without being able to say why.
Every lecture is an interview question, because the moment you properly learn something is when there is an interview in front of you. There is always an obvious right answer, and a good interviewer goes one step past it. That step is where this course lives.
What are you going to learn?
Types & Equality — the types JavaScript really has, and what it takes for two values to be equal.
Scopes & Variables — hoisting, the scope chain, closures, and the temporal dead zone.
Destructuring & Modern Arrays — destructuring, spread and rest, the array methods that landed after map and filter, and iterator helpers.
This — a whole section on the this keyword. A deep understanding of it is core to becoming a senior JavaScript developer.
Object Orientation — the history of OO in JavaScript, from the prototype chain through the constructor pattern to the class syntax. You need the earlier patterns to truly understand the current one.
Async, properly — five sections on it: what asynchronous really means, callbacks and the mess they make, promises and every combinator, async/await, and generators with async iterators.
The Event Loop — taken apart frame by frame, in Node and in the browser, until the ordering questions stop being guesswork.
Networking & Events — CORS and the same-origin policy, fetch, event capturing and bubbling, and event delegation.
Modern Platform — ES modules versus CommonJS, how memory is managed, where TypeScript fits, and what landed in ES2026.
Exercises run the whole way through. You predict what the code prints, then we run it and find out together.
Why an interview format?
I find it is only when I am facing an upcoming interview that I get into gear and really make sure I have a deep understanding of what I claim to know. I might know the best practice for solving a problem... but do I know why?
JavaScript interviews are designed to dig deeper, to see whether you are mimicking what you have read or whether you actually understand it. Also, it is FUN. What is more satisfying than learning something and then passing the test?
Ten years of updates
I first built this course in 2016 and I have been updating it ever since.. it has just been rebuilt for 2026. That history is the point. JavaScript is backwards compatible, so it never throws anything away, it only adds layers. Learn it in those layers and the strange behaviour stops being trivia and starts being obvious: a class stops being magic the moment you have seen the prototypes underneath it.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
11,051 Reviews
Asim Hussain
I wrote my first program in 1988. I was 11. First website in 1996, first class degree in Computer Science in 2000, and I still haven't found anything I'd rather do.
25+ years since then, across the European Space Agency, Intel, Microsoft and investment banks like Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. Published author, and I've spent a good chunk of my life on conference stages teaching developers the things I wish someone had told me sooner.
Then I spent a decade on climate. In 2020 I co-founded the Green Software Foundation, a non-profit consortium of 70+ organisations building the standards and tooling for software with zero harmful environmental impact, and ran it as Executive Director until 2026. Green software isn't a separate discipline, it's just software that doesn't waste energy. Efficient code, sensible architecture, knowing what your stack actually costs to run. Good engineering and green engineering keep turning out to be the same thing, and that shows up in how I teach.
Now I'm independent, building, writing and teaching full time.
What I believe
- Your job as a developer is to make other people more productive. That's what computing is.
- So if you're not obsessed with your own productivity, it doesn't bode well for the people relying on you.
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Reviews
By Aashutosh Taikar on 10/12/2020
Amazing course, the in-depth explanations are just awesome. This is the best course for advanced JavaScript ever. It teaches the real JavaScript paradigms and things to take care of. This has helped me a lot professionally. I am a big fan of Asim after this course. I have completed his angular course as well which is really well taught. Every point is thoroughly covered and explained by the instructor.
By Blake Simpson on 4/18/2020
This course explains about the deeper details of JavaScript. Its INCREDIBLE. Certain things that i had been using in JS, i never really grasped the concepts as to why they worked the way they did. All I knew was "this is how you do it, so keep doing it this way." After taking this course I now have a better understanding of not only JS but other 'flavors' of JS like React, Vue, and node. THIS COURSE IS DEFINITELY THE COURSE TO ADVANCE MY CAREER AS A DEVELOPER. I wish I could give it more stars.
By Maciek Sitkowski on 3/19/2020
Hi! I've just started today but I must say that I really like your course already! I really enjoy learning JavaScript by looking at the process of how the language has evolved over the years. It helps me understand all the newer features and that's exactly what your course does. Also, I love the idea that there is your miniature in the videos. It really draws my attention and I find myself being much more focused on what you are saying, hope it's going to be like this till the end of the course :)
By Oleksandr Kudriavtsev on 10/7/2018
Great course. A lot of useful information. Of course, you won't become a Senior Developer after this course, but, definitely, you will improve/refresh your JS skills before a job interview. Personally, I've found a lot of answers to my questions about JS and filled gaps in my JS skills. I think there might be about 10 other vital questions about JS related to ES6/ES7 and I hope that the course will be updated in the future.
By Gush Goldstein on 8/14/2018
Don't take this course until it has a comprehensive ES6 coverage, at the very least in the topics discussed. This course must be 5 years old in the knowledge it conveys now. In depth and clear explanations, otherwise. To Asim: You can and should do better - you are good in what you do explain
By Don S on 6/7/2018
This class is an excellent resource on JavaScript. Explains the complicated parts of JS clearly and concisely. Really liked the sections on Object-Oriented Programming, especially the explanation of Prototypal, Classical, and Pseudo-Classical inheritance. Also, really like the format. Key concepts are asked as a question that you would get in an interview, so the subject matter is relevant in: 1) understanding the fundamental concepts 2) responding to the question with an answer that goes "above and beyond" the standard solution. Definitely recommend this course.
By Laura Valdes on 3/28/2017
This course talks about many different subjects that many unexperienced developers don't know about, it goes into detail about many different subjects, for example the use of strict, what exactly it does and when to use it, type cohesion, it goes really deep into scopes, scope chains, common errors of the use of scope, uses of IIFE, as well as its advantages, closures, when to use a closure, how they actually work, common errors of closures, when to use them, practical uses, it goes deep into closures, the use of "this", deep understanding of "this", how to use call, apply and bind functions to pass "this" to other functions, it also goes deep into prototypes, the prototype chain, different types of inheritance, the new keyword, classes, Object.create, and Events, this is a very complete course, the only reason I'm giving it a 4, its because its missing in my perspective something really important, which is promises, it doesn't talk about promises at all, and that is a very important topic for experienced developers. with that topic this course will deserve a 5 star rating. the voice of the presenter is not boring at all, I used to get drowsy listening to other presenters but not here. the way he explains, when he is explaining something important he start talking slowly, which is excellent for non english speakers like me, I don't have to rewind the video that many times its clear what he is saying that along with the many many many examples he demonstrates is excellent. I really want to give it a 5 star rating. so please add that topic and I'll rate again.
By Sergio Kagiema on 12/13/2016
The course is very straight-forward! It covers many things that i could do not understand by reading a JS book. Examples are helping a lot. But the examples are kinda poor. For instance, in the call, apply and bind lecture, I believe that its important to communicate the that bind does not the function like apply and call but it creates a copy of the function. And that you can pass parameters to bind. (Function currying). Also, I would like to hear more beginner stuff about the CORS and JSONP lectures. Because, it was the first time I countered them. And I did not fully understand them.
By Liav Avnaim on 8/23/2016
Okay after watching this course twice, once a few months ago and once now, I've decided to update my review. These days I'm looking for a job as frontend AngularJS developer and since AngularJS is a JavaScript framework I decided to watch it again before an interview to refresh my memory on some topics and again I got to say this course is so useful and so recommended by me atleast. To sum everything up whether you are a beginner or an advanced developer who wants to start or refresh your memory before an interview this course is what you're looking for. Thanks Asim looking for more courses from you : )
By Maxim Klochkov on 12/1/2015
The good examples to understand the important foundations and some tricky parts of JavaScript. Everything is explained really clearly and with all necessary details and multiple examples. The author's voice and the explanation speed are comfortable to understand everything. I do recommend this course and my only wish to the author is to develop it further so the course would describe even more tricky parts of JavaScript.
Like the author and the way he's presenting those complicated ideas but no ES2015+ features makes this outdated and should either be updated or retired.
I feel i know a bit more of JavaScript but my journey doesn't end here its just the beginning.
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