Wikipedia:WikiProject JavaScript/Reference library
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Welcome to the WikiProject JavaScript Reference library of magazines, books, websites, and other publications. It is intended to help editors find knowledge published in reliable sources about JavaScript, its various components, and programs written in JavaScript.
Online sources
- Building Front-End Web Apps with Plain JavaScript – programming in plain JavaScript (without additional libraries, frameworks, etc.)
- Exploring ES2016 and ES2017 – what's new in ECMAScript 2016 and ECMAScript 2017 (ECMAScript is the standard specification that JavaScript follows)
- Google JavaScript Style Guide – Google’s coding standards for source code in JavaScript
- How to Learn JavaScript Properly – provides study guides for beginner and experienced JavaScript programmers, listing many resources
- Human JavaScript – "tools, patterns, and approaches optimized for people"
- Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript – from the Mozilla Developer Network
- JavaScript Garden – collection of tips and documentation on JavaScript's quirks
- JavaScript Guide – programmer's manual, from the Mozilla Developer Network
- JavaScript on the Mozilla Developer Network
- JavaScript reference – describes the language in detail. From the Mozilla Developer Network.
- JavaScript WikiBook – community-written introductory-level book on JavaScript, from Wikibooks
- jQuery Fundamentals – overview of the jQuery JavaScript library, which teaches the beginner to use it to program basic tasks
- Learn JavaScript – covers the very basics of JavaScript
- Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – reusable solutions for commonly occurring problems
- Programming JavaScript Applications –
- Understanding ECMAScript 6 – covers the core of the language in greater depth, and explains the differences between ECMAScript5 and ECMAScript6.
- Wikiversity JavaScript lessons – learning materials on JavaScript, collaboratively written by the community
- You Don't Know JS book series
Articles
- JavaScript Best Practices - Part 1
- JavaScript Best Practices - Part 2
- JavaScript Terminology For Beginners – 5 key features of the language
- Learn to Code: 13 Tips that Could Save You Years of Effort – #1 Forget university programs, #2 Start with JavaScript, etc.
- The Two Pillars of JavaScript — Part 1: How to Escape the 7th Circle of Hell – article by Eric Elliot
- The Two Pillars of JavaScript — Part 2: Functional Programming. How to Stop Micromanaging Everything – article by Eric Elliot
Bibliographies
- JavaScript the Right Way – extensive bibliography of online resources (links) for JavaScript, arranged by subject (Web/article directory)
e-books
online books (linked web-page format)
- Speaking JavaScript: An In-depth Guide for Programmers – assumes you already know another object-oriented programming language. Covers ECMAScript 5.
downloadable e-books
- Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition (pdf) – introduction to both JavaScript and programming in general, for beginners
- JavaScript Allongé (ES5) – explains the language, and how it works, with a focus on functions
- JavaScript for Cats (pdf) – easy for humans too
- JavaScript in Ten Minutes – Overview of the advanced features, for programmers who know some JavaScript
- JavaScript Spessore – developing apps with a focus on objects and metaobjects
Glossaries
- Codecademy JavaScript Glossary
- MDN JavaScript Glossary (extensive, link-intensive)
- Simplified JavaScript Jargon – with brief definitions, and links to more in-depth explanations.
Tutorials
- A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial) – when you are ready for a second go.
- Basic JavaScript – freeCodeCamp's 10-hour JavaScript learning track
- JavaScript Tutorial – from w3schools.com
- JavaScript tutorials – beginner, intermediate, and advanced
- jQuery Fundamentals tutorial – tutorial with built-in editor, and examples that the reader can experiment with
Videos
- JSConf's YouTube channel
- Must-Watch JavaScript – collection of links to well-received talks covering a wide-spectrum of JavaScript-related topics, listed by year.
See also
- Draft:Outline of JavaScript – JavaScript articles arranged hierarchically by subject classification. Under development.
- Draft:Outline of JavaScript#Further reading – lists a bunch of websites with free information on JavaScript, arranged by learner's level.
- Index of JavaScript-related articles – alphabetical list of all JavaScript-related articles in Wikipedia.