8 Best JavaScript Projects for Beginners

Learn 8 of the best JavaScript projects for beginners that will help you improve your skills and build a strong foundation in JavaScript programming. These projects are perfect for beginners of all levels.

Nowadays, with JavaScript getting better at doing more, it’s becoming increasingly harder (not to say impossible) to master it fully. Better understanding and experience in the language equals more career opportunities open for you. Thus, learning new stuff is really worth your time. One of the best and most versatile ways of learning programming is through doing different projects. Such a method allows you to master different aspects of programming all at once. The less time the project takes and the better the results are, the more experienced you become at doing certain things.

In this article I will introduce 8 JavaScript projects that I think are best for beginners. Let’s find out now

1: JAVASCRIPT CLOCK

Building your own digital clock with JavaScript is a relatively easy small project to practice variables and simple if loops.

Again, you want to use some CSS to customize the design and make your JavaScript clock look amazing.

2: VANILLA JAVASCRIPT STOPWATCH

Coding a JavaScript stopwatch is an easy little project you can build in one day even as a beginner. Your stopwatch needs three buttons for user interaction:

• Start
• Stop
• Reset
  Play around with some CSS to make it look pretty, and you’re all done!

3: JAVASCRIPT GUESS THE COLOR GAME

Coding a color guessing game with JavaScript is quite straightforward. You build a game where the player will see a single RGB value for a color. The player has to click on a color they think matches the RGB value displayed.

You can easily add more features to the game to make it more difficult. For example, you could limit the number of guesses or give the player three “lives”. With every wrong guess, they would lose one, and the game would be over when they run out of lives.

4: JAVASCRIPT CALCULATOR

Coding a good old calculator is excellent practice for your JavaScript skills. Create a clean interface with HTML and CSS and then add different features with JavaScript.

Start with just a few basic operators and buttons for:

• Additions
• Subtractions
• Multiplications
• Divisions

5: JAVASCRIPT DRUM KIT

If you want to build a JavaScript project that is tons of fun but still allows you to learn quite a bit, you’re going to love this example.

I discovered this JavaScript drum kit a while back, and I fell in love with it instantly. Seriously, it’s such an entertaining and fun project to build, trust me!

6: JAVASCRIPT PONG GAME

Pong was one of my favorite video games back in the day! Did you know that it was the very first commercially successful video game ever?

Building the game in JavaScript takes some work, but the end results can is tons of fun to play.

Again, start by thinking about the rules of the game and map out the different events your code needs to cover. As you build the game, you will probably come up with a few ideas on how to make it more fun.

Also, you may want to create different difficulty levels for your game. For example, the ball could move faster after a given number of rounds. Or to make things trickier for the player, allow for the computer to move the paddle more quickly.

Pong is a rather complex project if you are entirely new to JavaScript. I think the most difficult part of this project idea is to make sure the computer doesn’t always win. Hence, make sure you have a couple of easier projects under your belt before tackling this one.

7: JAVASCRIPT MAZE GAME PROJECT

I was a huge fan of drawing my own maze games when I was a kid in the early ’90s. Therefore, learning how to code my own maze with JavaScript was so much fun.

As for the difficulty of this JavaScript project, it is somewhat more demanding. Thus, if you are just getting started, make sure you feel comfortable enough with the language before you start building this game.

8: JAVASCRIPT TIP CALCULATOR

Calculating tips can be tricky sometimes – especially after a long day of coding. If you want to save the trouble of calculating your tips manually, just build your own tip calculator you can use whenever, wherever. Plus, this tool never makes mistakes or errors in calculations.

When you’ve built a simple tip calculator, you can always add more features to make it more user-friendly. Say you want to travel abroad soon. Find out what’s an appropriate tip level there and add a country selection option to your calculator.

So, that was my list of the best JS project ideas. Let me know in the comments if you have any other ideas to recommend.

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