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18 Excellent Free Books to Learn JavaScript

Last Updated on January 21, 2024

4. JavaScript Enlightenment by Cody Lindley

JavaScript Enlightenment

JavaScript Enlightenment seeks to give an accurate JavaScript world-view through an examination of native JavaScript objects and supporting nuances: complex values, primitive values, scope, inheritance, the head object, etc.

This book offers a curated selection of the commonly used language updates After studying the material in this book grokking new JavaScript code while learning JavaScript frameworks and tools, readers should be much more comfortable.

The book solidifies your understanding of the language.

Chapters cover:

  • Get a short and digestible summary of ECMA-262, Edition 3; the most widely implemented version of JavaScript to date.
  • Examine the creation of JavaScript objects.
  • Learn complex values, primitive values, scope, and inheritance.
  • Understand the importance of the head object.
  • Work with string, number, and Boolean objects and values.
  • Discover how to use the null value and the built-in math object.
  • Get into the details—beyond Mozilla’s reference guide for JavaScript 1.5.

The book is targeted at advanced beginners or intermediate JavaScript developers who wish to solidify their understanding of the language through an in-depth look at JavaScript objects. The book also aims to reach the JavaScript library veteran who is ready to look behind the curtain. It is not an exhaustive reference guide to JavaScript.

The first edition of the book is published under an open source license.

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5. Building Front-End Web Apps with Plain JavaScript by Gerd Wagner

Building Front-End Web Apps with Plain JavaScript

Building Front-End Web Apps with Plain JavaScript is an in-depth tutorial.

Chapters cover:

  • Getting Started.
  • More on JavaScript.
  • Building a Minimal App with Plain JavaScript in Seven Steps.
  • Integrity Constraints.
  • Constraint Validation in a Plain JS Front-End App.
  • Enumerations and Enumeration Attributes.
  • Implementing Enumeration Attributes in a Plain JS App.
  • Reference Properties and Unidirectional Associations.
  • Implementing Unidirectional Functional Associations with Plain JavaScript.
  • Implementing Unidirectional Non-Functional Associations with Plain JavaScript.
  • Bidirectional Associations.
  • Implementing Bidirectional Associations with Plain JavaScript.
  • Part-Whole Associations.
  • Subtyping and Inheritance.
  • Subtyping in a Plain JavaScript Front-End App.
  • The Model-Based Development Framework mODELcLASSjs.
  • Constraint Validation with mODELcLASSjs.

This book, along with any associated source code, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL).

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6. Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani

Learning JavaScript Design PatternsDesign patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They are both exciting and a fascinating topic to explore in any programming language.

In this book we will explore applying both classical and modern design patterns to the JavaScript programming language.

This book is targeted at professional developers wishing to improve their knowledge of design patterns and how they can be applied to the JavaScript programming language.

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 unported license. It is available for purchase via O’Reilly Media but is both free online and as a physical (or eBook) purchase for readers.

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Next page: Page 3 – Developing Backbone.js Applications and more books

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – You Don’t Know JS (book series) and more books
Page 2 – JavaScript Enlightenment and more books
Page 3 – Developing Backbone.js Applications and more books
Page 4 – jQuery Fundamentals and more books
Page 5 – JavaScript Bible and more books
Page 6 – Object-Oriented JavaScript and more books


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CrystalGeneral-purpose, concurrent, multi-paradigm, object-oriented language
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DGeneral-purpose systems programming language with a C-like syntax
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PostScriptInterpreted, stack-based and Turing complete language
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razbone
razbone
5 years ago

sorry 8- Link ????