There is an innumerable number of programming languages out there.Each one of them fits better a certain project and does the functionality that it ́s supposed to perform.
you are thinking about learning Javascript or just dig deeper in the language, here ́s a list of books we recommend you to put an eye on and stretch your knowledge.
TOP 13 JavaScript Books
You Don’t Know Js
(By: Kyle Simpson )
This is a series of 6 books that summarise the main mechanism of the language JavaScript. Which are: Up & Going, Scope and Closures, This and Object Prototypes, Types and Grammar, Async Performance and ES6 and Beyond.
Effective JavaScript
(By: David Herman )
The experience writing JavaScript code is meaningless if you want to be a master of it you have to earn the Effective way of writing it so you can write more predictable, easy-to-maintain programs.
JavaScript: The Good Parts
(By: Douglas Crockford )
The author shows the thought of abundance of good ideas that make the language a good object-oriented programming -ideas like Functions, Loose typing…
The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript
(By: Nicholas C. Zakas )
The books push out into the nature of the JavaScript Language, object-oriented, showing some of the unique acquisition added and more key factors ( The difference between primitive and reference values, How to define your own constructors…)
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
(By: David Flanagan )
A very complete book for programmers who want to understand the entire picture of the language with examples, methods, properties. The book is divided into 8 parts that go from the core language to the client-side and how it interacts with the Web browser and Web page.
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
(By: John Resig,Bear Bibeault,Josip Maras )
A very complete book for programmers who want to understand the entire picture of the language with examples, methods, properties. The book is divided into 8 parts that go from the core language to the client-side and how it interacts with the Web browser and Web page.
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
(By: Nicholas C. Zakas )
The author of this book tries to go over three different statements, 1. JavaScript is a “baby language” and gives reasons why many companies choose to design Web pages and server-side applications with it. 2. Slightly touches the basics and foundations of the language and then pivots to more advanced topics. 3. The author builds taking into account the reader’s understanding of HTML, CSS, and Web.
Beginning JavaScript
(By: Jeremy McPeak )
The author of this book tries to focus more on the client’s side scripting and on the main definitions that are required as you advance in the knowledge of the language.
JavaScript and JQuery
(By: JavaScript and JQuery )
Changing your approach to a more visual one can be crucial for the interaction and understanding of the web pages. Or making the interfaces more intuitive by giving the code examples, infographics, and photography.
JavaScript & jQuery
(By: David Sawyer McFarland )
JavaScript lets you fulfill your webpage with animated items, visual effects… but that is a hard task to accomplish. With this book, the author tried to bring you along the path step by step with JQuery making you save money and time.
High Performance JavaScript
(By: Nicholas C. Zakas )
Relying on JavaScript is a usual step for most of the developers when creating interactive items and “quick-responded” web applications. The author of this book tries to optimize them by showing you strategies and techniques to follow in order not to slow down the processor of your apps.
JavaScript for Kids
(By: Nick Morgan )
JavaScript is one of the foundations of the internet programming codes. With this book, the author will show you the insights and benefits of learning it starting from the ground up. As if a kid was trying to learn the language.
Eloquent JavaScript
(By: Marijn Haverbeke )
This book shows you the guts of what learning JavaScript for web applications means. It is a very easy-to-go language for beginners and very useful for the future and scalable applications. Learning a programming language is just like another speaking language, it can be very challenging and tricky at the beginning, but it will help you to understand better the complexions of web development.