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You-Dont-Know-JS
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You-Dont-Know-JS
A book series (2 published editions) on the JS language.
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What it is
A book series (2 published editions) on the JS language.
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I recommend this book https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS It discusses great edge cases of JS while explaining why or how come they are like this where possible.
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HN mentions by year133 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2013-11-20 18:38:59 UTC to 2025-03-17 16:51:17 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 23 | 3 | 20 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 35 | 1 | 34 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 17 | 3 | 14 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesThe "You Don't Know JS Yet" book was suggested in the fairly recent HN thread on the same topic:
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/READM...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829235
In Ask HN: What's the best JavaScript book for programmers?The only difference today is the number of platforms and browsers your code has to run on. And there are a zillion JS libraries to simplify that problem.
The main thing is to just pick one that is popular and has been around for a couple years (not something just released) and start coding.
Work on your JS fundamentals - https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
On the backend, use google cloud or azure. There is a ton of code already written for any kind of app/website usecase you can ever imagine. Just reuse it.
Today's Mark Zuckerberg would just be plugging in piece that already exist. Focusing less on code and more on the User needs.
In Ask HN: What would the Mark Zuckerberg of 2019 use in his dorm to build his siteLooks like some autocorrect happened to your link:
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
In Interview with Kyle Simpson, author of You Don’t Know JS book seriesKyle's free and open source You Don't Know series https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS are amazing resources for Javascript developers.
In Interview with Kyle Simpson, author of You Don’t Know JS book seriesThere is also the "You Don't Know JS" series, which is free online. I have heard positive things about it, the last installment includes ES6.
From the linked README:
"This is a series of books diving deep into the core mechanisms of the JavaScript language. The first edition of the series is now complete.
[...]
These books are being released here as drafts, free to read, but are also being edited, produced, and published through O'Reilly."
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/READM...
In Ask HN: Best way to learn JavaScript in 2019?Just popping in to recommend Kyle Simpson’s “You Don’t Know JS” series. He breaks down “this” and other potentially confusing JS concepts in an easy-to-understand way.
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/READM...
In Removing JavaScript's 'this' keyword makes it a better language