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Best JavaScript Books
“Nearly all of the books about JavaScript are quite awful. They contain errors, poor examples, and promote bad practices. Important features of the language are often explained poorly, or left out entirely. I have reviewed dozens of JavaScript books, and I can only recommend one: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) by David Flanagan.” — Douglas Crockford
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
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Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
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High Performance JavaScript: Build Faster Web Application Interfaces
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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
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JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns
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Stoyan Stefanov (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 1,630 ratings
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Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series)
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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
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4.20 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Learning Javascript Design Patterns
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Addy Osmani (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Maintainable JavaScript: Writing Readable Code
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3.89 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Closure: The Definitive Guide: Google Tools to Add Power to Your JavaScript
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3.76 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript
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3.38 avg rating — 128 ratings
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JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
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Single Page Web Applications
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3.64 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Test-Driven JavaScript Development
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3.66 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Pro JavaScript Techniques
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4.05 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Coding with JavaScript For Dummies
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Chris Minnick (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Exploring ES6
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Axel Rauschmayer (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Async JavaScript
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Trevor Burnham (Goodreads Author)
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Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software
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3.77 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Pro JavaScript Design Patterns: The Essentials of Object-Oriented JavaScript Programming
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4.08 avg rating — 180 ratings
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JavaScript Web Applications: jQuery Developers' Guide to Moving State to the Client
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3.88 avg rating — 242 ratings
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DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
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3.98 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Responsive Web Design Overview For Beginners
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Brett Romero (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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JavaScript Objects Functions and Arrays Explained
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Tony de Araujo (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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ng-book - The Complete Book on AngularJS
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Your First App: Node.js
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JavaScript Unlocked
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half
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Mark Myers (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 618 ratings
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You Don't Know JS: Up & Going
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The JavaScript Pocket Guide
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3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Learning JavaScript: JavaScript Essentials for Modern Application Development
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Ethan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Thinking in JavaScript
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Aravind Shenoy (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 270 ratings
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JavaScript Enlightenment
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Getting Good with Javascript
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3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
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4.36 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Beginning JavaScript
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3.47 avg rating — 85 ratings
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A Software Engineer Learns HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery: A guide to standards-based web applications
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Dane Cameron (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Node.js the Right Way: Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scales
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3.86 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Javascript Examples Bible: The Essential Companion to Javascript Bible
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3.72 avg rating — 167 ratings
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90 voters ·
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Sep 09, 2011 02:32PM
What the heck is "Programming Perl" doing at the #1 position in the "Best JavaScript Books" list?
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Although I like Perl, that Perl book does not belong in a list about the best Javascript books.
FIXME :) duplicate:JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
by David Flanagan
I have written a review/ comparison of 5 JavaScript books highlighting the weaknesses and strengths of every book. http://anuary.com/68/the-best-javascr... The best book about JavaScript depends on what you are looking to learn (familiarising with syntax/ function reference, exploring different patterns or solving particular issues, such as legacy browser support and DOM manipulation). It should help the reader to pick the best book about JavaScript for his intentions. It covers 3 of the books on this list.
CoffeeScript is not Javascript. Yes it does compile down to Javascript, but it itself, is not Javascript. Even the books about CoffeeScript mention that it is not Javascript. The syntax is different enough that most people compare it to Ruby. That Coffeescript book should be removed.
I personally like “Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide”. This book is easy to follow.http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/2OfKM...
Build Your First Website: A Crash Course in HTML and CSSby Joey Kirk doesn't seem to fit in this list either.
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