README.md

This is a JavaScript practice with JavaScript30 by Wes Bos without any frameworks, no compilers, no boilerplate, and no libraries.

01 - Drum Kit

key event listener, audio play and toggle class.

view demo here

Bind an event to our keys when they are pressed.

window.addEventListener('keydown', playSound)

• playSound() is a listener for keydown events registered using window.addEventListener.
• window is the global object in a browser, or the root object of the DOM. And document stands for DOM.

data-key has its own value on <div>s and <audio>s in HTML

const audio = document.querySelector(`audio[data-key="${e.keyCode}"]`);
const key = document.querySelector(`div[data-key="${e.keyCode}"]`);

• keyCode property is the KEY to connect our buttons(<div>s) and sounds(<audio>s).
• keyCode 's value is same as ASCII code (in lowercase letter ), check keycodes here.
• data-key is set for mapping buttons and audios to get the keyCodes via keydown event.
• the whole querySelector expression has to be in back ticks (```).
• ${} is syntactic sugar for template literals, read more about Expression interpolation here

About playing sounds

How do we prevent delay playing sound, if we keep hitting a key?

just add audio.currentTime = 0; before audio.play();

Toggling styles

• use item.classList.add('className') to add class when key pressed. (same as element.addClass('className') in jQuery)

• use transitionend event to remove play class. since we want to just remove transform property, so add a condition to skip others.

if(e.propertyName != 'transform') return;
this.classList.remove('playing'); // `event.target.classList.remove('playing');`

forEach and Arrow function

• items.forEach() instead of just forEach, which means it's a property of an array.

• Arrow functions is ES6 syntax,

keys.forEach(key => key.addEventListener());