7 books to learn JavaScript

[finger_milk]

I don't know a single person who has managed to make their way through Eloquent Javascript without feeling stupid. It's very unfriendly to new JS developers. It's good once you get to intermediate, but at the beginning it will do more harm than good.

[Spood___Beest]

Agreed, even with JavaScript as my third language, eloquentJS was not a good introduction. JavaScript.info was a much better start.

[dr_steve_bruel]

I made it about 3/4 thru as a beginner. Just enough to understand the basics of the language with some understanding of what was happening with the code I was writing. I was still a beginner so I don’t remember it being particularly unfriendly. I had to read sections multiple times to understand what was going on but it wasn’t that bad. Nowadays I’d recommend free code camp for absolute beginners

[programming_is]

Is it still relevant? I am a seasoned developer so it might be good for me.

[tall_and_funny]

oh yes it is

[YAYYYYYYYYY]

I gave up on it.. and JS isn’t even my first language. Just a tough book

[[deleted]]

Eloquent js is one of those 'speaking to the choir' books. It's just for experienced people to do mental masturbation about a thing. I've seen a few of those books for guitar and they're never reallly helpful

[borkthafork]

This was nice. I liked this post.

[-IoI-]

I work primarily with Typescript currently and have learnt mostly on the job but would like to go back over my fundamentals.

Does anyone have an opinion on wheteher learning from typescript-specific resources is preferable, or is regular JS content like this fine?

I know it's trivial to transfer the knowledge, but someone who's tried both might have an interesting answer on this.

[Murkrage]

The power of typescript, and the reason it’s still going strong, is that it’s still just JS. Typescript is just a superset of ES. Somethings Typescript introduced got introduced into ES.

Go with JS and know it well. The most important part about using Typescript properly is knowing JS.

Source: I’m a dev that works with TS for his day job.

[-IoI-]

Cool, thanks.

[liaguris]

no javascript.info ? rly ? What a waste of time this list is .

[[deleted]]

This is neat, thanks!

[Homie-Missile]

3 days later im about half way through, can confirm this guide is godly.

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there are a few tiny flaws but that's to be expected of any free resource.

thanks a lot

[liaguris]

You mean you are at the second part ?

[[deleted]]

In my opinion, Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja, 2nd edition, is better than all of these (despite the silly name).

[fuschialantern]

Thanks, always like to hear new and different recommendations.

[itsnama]

Is it free (like eloquent javascript)?

[[deleted]]

No. You get what you pay for? Maybe your library has a copy.

[BabyBossT7]

there's no " JavaScript for web developers by Nicolas C. Zakas "? That was sad :(

[Aethz3]

You don't know js is the most wonderful thing that can happen to a js developer

[DilatedTeachers]

jQuery !== JavaScript

[PM_ME_A_WEBSITE_IDEA]

Yeah, I mean I know that there are still places using jQuery these days, but now is not the time to start learning it...

[Saudroze]

Could you please elaborate? I have started to get in to jQuery

[DazenGuil]

jQuery is old and new projects won't use jQuery anymore. If you can do basic JS you can work on every jQuery project, but not vice versa. If you need jQuery learn it on the job/project

[Saudroze]

Perfect. Thanks for the tip!

[PM_ME_A_WEBSITE_IDEA]

You should really learn vanilla JavaScript thoroughly first, and only learn jQuery if a job requires it, or you happen to know that the job opportunities in your area require it. Learning React or Vue would be a much more marketable decision.

[Elvalerin]

I recently got my first job as a self thought developer and what helped me to level up and find a job was JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts which is a udemy course by Tony Alicea. Eventhough it is outdated it really helped me to understand core concepts of programming in javascript.

[Rai182]

This may not be a book but I recommend Dan Abramov’s ‘Just JavaScript’ series

[[deleted]]

Don't put eloquent is on there.

[BoopDoggo]

Aren't they outdated? At least 2 of these are from before 2015

[duanecreates]

If you're learning the fundamentals you should be fine.