B est free JavaScript books: ECMAScript, jQuery, and other. Download ebooks (pdf, mobi, epub) and read online. Update of December 2017 collection. 6 new books.
JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based, multi-paradigm, and interpreted programming language.
Ideal for professional software developers with a basic understanding of JavaScript, this practical book shows you how to build small, interconnected ES6 JavaScript modules that emphasize reusability. You’ll learn how to face a project with a modular mindset, and how to organize your applications into simple pieces that work well in isolation and can be combined to create a large, robust application. This book focuses on two aspects of JavaScript development: modularity and ES6 features. You’ll learn how to tackle application development by following a scale-out approach. As pieces of your codebase grow too big, you can break them up into smaller modules.
Author: Nicolas Bevacqua
Date: 2017
ECMAScript 6 is coming, are you ready? There's a lot of new concepts to learn and understand. Get a headstart with this book!
Author: Nicholas C. Zakas
Date: 2017
This book covers the latest versions of JavaScript as they are created.
Author: Axel Rauschmayer
Date: 2016
An in-depth book on ECMAScript 6, for JavaScript programmers.
Author: Axel Rauschmayer
Date: 2016
ECMAScript 6 (ES6), also known as ECMAScript 2015, brings new functionality and features to the table that developers have been wanting for a long time. The wait is over, and with help from ECMAScript 6 Succinctly by Matthew Duffield, you can now develop all of these features. You can also target browsers that don’t even support ES6 yet using a transpiler. A compiler translates one language to another, such as C# to MSIL, while a transpiler converts one version of a language to another, such as ES6 to ES5.
Author: Matthew Duffield
Date: 2016
The JavaScript® Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. See credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified. Book created for educational purposes and is not affiliated with JavaScript® group(s), company(s) nor Stack Overflow. All trademarks belong to their respective company owners. 490 pages.
JavaScript is a great entry point into the world of programming, and required knowledge for an ever increasing number of software professionals. Complete beginner or already experienced in other programming languages, what better time than now to discover the JavaScript Way?
Ideal for professional software developers with a basic understanding of JavaScript, this practical book shows you how to build small, interconnected ES6 JavaScript modules that emphasize reusability. You’ll learn how to face a project with a modular mindset, and how to organize your applications into simple pieces that work well in isolation and can be combined to create a large, robust application. This book focuses on two aspects of JavaScript development: modularity and ES6 features. You’ll learn how to tackle application development by following a scale-out approach. As pieces of your codebase grow too big, you can break them up into smaller modules.
This is a short book that walks you through the fundamentals of functions, closures, and prototypes. Understanding these three core concepts are key in learning JavaScript. Now that JavaScript is becoming more important than ever, it is crucial to have a good understanding of the fundamental concepts.
Learn modern Javascript, HTML5 Canvas, and a bit of EmberJS. This is a book about surviving an alien invasion and using web technologies.
Discover everything a beginner needs to know about the world of JavaScript with this free eBook. From the absolute basics of JS syntax to combining ECMAScript 6 and Visual Studio Code this primer is the perfect resource for a JavaScript Master-in-the-Making!
Author: Gabriel A. Canepa
Date: 2016
Author: Emmit Scott
Date: 2016
A long pull of functions, combinators, & decorators, updated to include the latest ES-6 features.
Author: Reg Braithwaite
Date: 2016
This book will teach you the basics of programming and Javascript. Whether you are an experienced programmer or not, this book is intended for everyone who wishes to learn the JavaScript programming language.
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.
Author: Kyle Simpson
Date: 2013-2016
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JavaScript has become a must-have skill for all web developers. JavaScript: Novice to Ninja is a fun, practical, and comprehensive guide to the modern usage of this deceptively powerful language. In this step-by-step introduction to coding in JavaScript you’ll learn how to solve real-world problems, track events, design eye-catching animations, build smarter forms, and develop richer applications. Along the way, you’ll learn to develop according to best practices, including Object Oriented Programming and Test Driven Development.
A JavaScript optimization handbook from a high level point of view.
Master the art of building, deploying, and optimizing faster web applications with JavaScript.
Author: Chad R. Adams
Date: 2015
An incremental in-depth tutorial about building front-end web applications with plain JavaScript, not using any third-party library or framework, for theory-underpinned and example-based learning by doing it yourself.
Author: Gerd Wagner
Date: 2015
With Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, you’ll learn how to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying classical and modern design patterns to the language. If you want to keep your code efficient, more manageable, and up-to-date with the latest best practices, this book is for you.
Author: Addy Osmani
Date: 2015
This book will challenge you to learn and understand the most obscure and tricky parts of Javascript.
A sensible introduction to coding with JavaScript.
JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps to the newest browser-based games. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications.
Author: Marijn Haverbeke
Date: 2014
Get started with JavaScript with this free eBook and learn one of the most important languages in web development today. With helpful tips and code examples, discover how you can create websites with impressive and dynamic functionality. Explore JavaScript’s in-built features and find out how to customize them in this accessible and free guide.
Author: Aravind Shenoy
Date: 2014
Like it or not, JavaScript is everywhere these days—from browser to server to mobile—and now you, too, need to learn the language or dive deeper than you have. This concise book guides you into and through JavaScript, written by a veteran programmer who once found himself in the same position.
Author: Axel Rauschmayer
Date: 2014
Take advantage of JavaScript’s power to build robust web-scale or enterprise applications that are easy to extend and maintain. By applying the design patterns outlined in this practical book, experienced JavaScript developers will learn how to write flexible and resilient code that’s easier—yes, easier—to work with as your code base grows.
Author: Eric Elliott
Date: 2014
JavaScript Succinctly was written to give readers an accurate, concise examination of JavaScript objects and their supporting nuances, such as complex values, primitive values, scope, inheritance, the head object, and more. If you’re an intermediate JavaScript developer and want to solidify your understanding of the language, or if you’ve only used JavaScript beneath the mantle of libraries such as jQuery or Prototype, this is the book for you.
Author: Cody Lindley
Date: 2014
As applications move from the desktop to the browser, the need to learn well-structured JavaScript is vital. This book is for developers who want to learn JavaScript from scratch, or take their JavaScript skills to a new level of sophistication. A completely free and full-length introduction to objects in JavaScript, it teaches through examples and practical play.
An introduction for new programmers.
Date: 2013
Introducing Human JavaScript: Practical patterns for simple but powerful JavaScript apps.
Author: Henrik Joreteg
Date: 2013
JavaScript in ten (arbitrarily long) minutes.
Author: Spencer Tipping
Date: 2013
This cookbook is organized in a linear, progressive way allowing it to be read from start to finish, as well as to be used as a useful resource for specific tasks. The HTML5 examples and recipes will have you making dynamic, interactive, and animated charts and graphs in no time. You don't need to have a background in HTML5 or Canvas but you do need to have a basic understanding of how HTML works and know how to code in any language (preferably in JavaScript). In this book we will not explain how to learn to code but how to create projects and how to plan and execute them in the process.
If you’re an advanced beginner or intermediate JavaScript developer, JavaScript Enlightenment will solidify your understanding of the language—especially if you use a JavaScript library. In this concise book, JavaScript expert Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) provides an accurate view of the language by examining its objects and supporting nuances. Libraries and frameworks help you build web applications quickly and efficiently, but when things go wrong or performance becomes an issue, knowing how and why they work is critical. If you’re ready to go under the hood and get your hands dirty with JavaScript internals, this is your book.
Author: Cody Lindley
Date: 2012
Master Space and Time With JavaScript is a four book series that will help you come to to grips with modern JavaScript, including the JavaScript object model, testing, Backbone, and Ember.
Author: Noel Rappin
Date: 2012
Enjoy this complimentary excerpt from JavaScript Cookbook featuring interactive examples that illustrate how to use JavaScript to manipulate strings, arrays, and graphics.
Author: Shelley Powers
Date: 2010
