Introduction to javascript for defhacks March 2018
Get Started with Javascript on W3Schools : https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
How to set up nodejs for server development with javascript: https://github.com/heroku/node-js-sample/blob/master/index.js Download: https://nodejs.org/en/
Cognitive Services (for adding intelligence into your apps using REST APIs) Sign up for free! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/
Using language understanding to create intents/entities for your chat bots: https://www.luis.ai/
For some sample code, check out my contextual search repo. It has examples for using luis, speech to text. https://github.com/pipgirl/contextual-voice-search
You can also check out my image recognition code for samples how to use computer vision, emotion and face APIS: https://github.com/pipgirl/cog-services-sample/blob/master/public/js/intelligentapp.js (This may be slightly outdated but gives example how to call the APIs and use the returning JSON)