Awesome JavaScript Learning

An awesome list limited to the best JavaScript learning resources

This list is mainly about JavaScript - the language. Not about APIs, tooling, frameworks or other aspects of todays JavaScript ecosystem.

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Contents

• JavaScript References
• Articles & Tutorials
• Free eBooks
• Books
• Blogs
• Videos
• Interactive learning
• ES6 and above
• DOM related
• Node.js
• Related

JavaScript References

• MDN - Simply the best language reference.
• DevDocs - Search MDN comfortably. Even offline.
• Simplified JavaScript Jargon - Glossary which explains all the buzzwords from the JavaScript eco system.
• Functional Programming Jargon - Explains terms used in functional programming in the JavaScript context.
• Modern JavaScript Cheatsheet - Helps developers with basic knowledge to get familiar with modern codebases.
• ECMAScript® Language Specification - The standard JavaScript is based on. Only for very advanced learners.

Articles & Tutorials

Overall Topics

• A re-introduction to JavaScript* - Compact introduction covering types, variables, operators, control structures, functions and closures.
• JavaScript.info - A modern tutorial from the basics to advanced topics with simple, but detailed explanations.
• Glossary of Modern JavaScript Concepts: Part 1 - Learn the fundamentals of functional programming, reactive programming, and functional reactive programming in JavaScript.
• Glossary of Modern JavaScript Concepts: Part 2 - Explains concepts like scope and closures, data flow, change detection, components, compilation, tree shaking.
• Robust Client-Side JavaScript - Guide focused on writing robust code by describing possible failures and explaining how to prevent them.

*MDN offers a lot of other guides for every level of knowledge to dig deeper.

Single Topics

• JavaScript Closures Demystified - Covering closures. From basics to use cases. Has useful comments.
• Understanding Hoisting - Detailed explanation of the concept of hoisting in JavaScript.
• Array operations - Covering the usefulness of Array's map, reduce, and filter methods.
• Promises - Learning promises step by step.
• Async/Await - Tutorial showing the advantages of consuming Promises via async functions.
• Pure functions - Answers the question »What is a Pure Function?« epicly.
• Using Fetch - Describes thoroughly how to use the Fetch API to receive and send data.
• Chrome DevTools - Everything you need to know about the debugging tools built into Google Chrome.

Free eBooks

• Eloquent JavaScript - Covering the language and runtime specifics.
• You Don't Know JS (book series) - Series of books diving deep into language.
• Speaking JavaScript - In-depth guide beginning with the basics.
• JavaScript Design Patterns - Classical and JavaScript specific design patterns.
• Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming - Excellent primer to functional programming using JavaScript.
• Functional-Light JavaScript - This book explores the core principles of functional programming (FP) as they are applied to JavaScript.

Books

Thin books which you can get through in a few days.

• JavaScript: The Good Parts - Classic material which still has relevance.
• The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript - Comprehensible, especially interesting for people with a class based OOP background.
• JavaScript Enlightenment - Will solidify your understanding of the language.
• Testing JavaScript Applications - A complete guide for JavaScript testing tools and techniques.

Blogs

• ②ality - Language features and APIs well explained by author and trainer Dr. Axel Rauschmayer.
• Pony Foo - Detailed and high quality posts from Nicolás Bevacqua all related to JavaScript.

Videos

• == ? === ??? ...#@^% - Basic talk about type coercion and strict type comparison.
• FunFunFunction - Educational plus entertaining YouTube show covering language features as well as architectural topics amongst others.
• What the heck is the event loop anyway? - Awesome talk about the way JavaScript works, and a tool for exploring the callstack.
• Become a JavaScript Console Power-User - Introduction to the browsers JavaScript console.
• Debugging The Web - Learn state of the art in debugging using Chrome dev tools.
• JavaScript 30 - 30 video tutorials to build neat little things with just plain JavaScript.

• Promises Are So Passé - Talk that shows where async goes next, why it matters, and what you need to do to put it into practice today.
• Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - Talk containing the best explanation of map/reduce.
• Understand JavaScript's this Keyword in Depth - 18 minutes divided into 8 short videos to wrap you head around this.

Interactive learning

• Codeacademy - Fundamentals of JavaScript.
• Udacity JavaScript Basics - They also offer more advanced courses.
• Code School - From Basics to Best Practices. Different courses related to JavaScript.
• Functional programming - Learn basic principles of functional programming in an interactive way by using map, filter, concatAll, reduce and zip.
• Learn JavaScript Online - Interactive JavaScript course with spaced repetiton flashcards app.
• Exercism JavaScript Track - Exercism provides individual practice and mentor-based learning for free.

ES6 and above

• Exploring ES6 - Good introduction with in-depth chapters.
• Exploring ES2016 and ES2017 - Follow up of »Exploring ES6«.
• Setting up ES6 - Explains how to set up ES6 projects that are transpiled to ES5.
• ES6 Overview - Bullet point overview including in-depth articles.
• ES6 Katas - Learn ES6 by solving unit test online.
• Practical ES6 - eBook with practical examples and advices.
• 30 seconds of code - Useful ES6 snippets that you can understand in 30 seconds or less.
• What’s the difference between JavaScript and ECMAScript? - Clears the confusion about ES6 and Javascript.

DOM related

• DOM Enlightenment - A whole book about how to access an manipulate the DOM without a library.
• You Might Not Need jQuery - Get plain JavaScript code snippets (and see their jQuery equivalents).
• Traversing the DOM with JavaScript - A tutorial featuring native methods to traverse the DOM.

Node.js

• The Art of Node - Introductory tutorial covering the basics.
• NodeSchool - Interactive self guided workshops you can also do on your own.
• Node Patterns - Short books about code and networking patterns related to Node.js.
• Learn Node - A premium training course to learn to build apps with Node.js, Express, MongoDB.

Related

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