What I Learned at codebar Festival 2026

This week I went to the Codebar Festival, a hybrid event bringing together both coaches and students from the codebar community for workshops and talks.

codebar is a charity that helps under represented groups enter the tech industry though workshops and events like the festival.

At the festival I was hoping to learn more about Javascript as I’m pursuing a career in web app development.

Javascript Workshop

The Javascript workshop was really interesting, I particular like the quiz covering all the weird behaviors of this.

I’ve covered the basic of Javascript before but it was useful to look into some best practices whilst coding a little fizz buzz app.

Deno Workshop

I hadn’t heard of Deno (node spelled backwards!) before this workshop. It was eye opening learning about different JavaScript runtimes and it was a lot of fun building the dinosaur jumping game.

Conclusion

a picture of some of the new friends I made at the festival

I really enjoyed going to the codebar Festival and I learned heaps. I got major FOMO because some of the JavaScript sessions were at the same time but I guess I can watch the recordings later.

If you’re trying to learn JavaScript like me I’d definitely recommend checking out codebar!