Top mentioned javascript books of Reddit, Hacker News and Stack Overflow(ever best?)
Recently we use Google’s BigQuery analysed top mentioned books of Hacker news , Stack Overflow and Reddit. We got nearly 800 books as our reading list, we feel very exited. The webiste address is getbookpockets.com.
Javascript is an old computer language, but it is still popular now. More and more framework appearance. As a software engineer, I have been using it all the time. So We find the most mentioned javascript books, here is the list. You can find the list here.
Here is the list
#1. JavaScript: The Good Parts
This is one of the classic JS books that every JS developers should read, and read multiple times. It’s one of the first successful books, that start defining best practices for Javascript developers. it helps lot’s of people at the time of its writing, include now.
This book is small but quite dense, you should read it with the online example. You will get the meat of Javascript with it.
This book is mentioned by all of the three website. 20 stories in Hacker News, 253 posts in Reddit And 141 posts in Stack Overflow. It means more than 300 people have recommend it.
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#2. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
As it’s name said ‘Definitive Guide’, but i think it will not only let you learning and understanding javascript, but also programming in general.
Even there’s full of theory, less of practices, but it’s simple to understand. I believe you will get confidence after read it.
This book is both mentioned by Hacker News (6 people)and Stack Overflow (21 people)
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#3.JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns
It’s a good intermediate to advanced books. It’s one of the best javascript books, along with The Good Parts by Crockford (above) and High Performance JavaScript by Zakas (below). This book covers numerous inheritance and code reuse techniques, including most of the GOF patterns, but does also suggest several novel ways to take advantage (and not hack around) JavaScripts prototypical nature.
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#4. jQuery in Action
jQuery as one of the most popular JavaScript library, i think maybe we can remove ‘one of’. It is used by millions of front-end developers and lots of companies. This book will let u get into jQuery and know how it works.
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#5.Object-Oriented JavaScript: Create scalable, reusable high-quality JavaScript applications and libraries
This book is for both beginners and intermediates. Basic knowledge of javascript. e.g. data type, operator, flow control statements, function (use patterns, variable scope, build-in functions), closure, object and prototype etc.
It also does a good job on best practices of object-oriented development in Javascript and use design patterns to solve problems.
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#6.High Performance JavaScript: Build Faster Web Application Interfaces
As The book name mention, it care about the performance of javascript. The content include identify problem code and use faster alternatives to accomplish the same task, improve scripts by learning how JS stores and accesses data, improve runtime performance, keep the UI responsive, faster client-server communication, etc.
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#7.Pro JavaScript Design Patterns: The Essentials of Object-Oriented JavaScript Programming
With The book you’ll start with the basics of object–oriented programming in JavaScript applicable to design patterns, including making JavaScript more expressive, inheritance, encapsulation, information hiding, and more. With that covered, you can kick–start your JavaScript development in the second part of the book, where you’ll find detail on how to implement and take advantage of several design patterns in JavaScript, including composites, decorators, façades, adapters, and many more.
Each chapter is packed with real–world examples of how the design patterns are best used and expert advice on writing better code, as well as what to watch out for. Along the way you’ll discover how to create your own libraries and APIs for even more efficient coding.
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#8.Closure: The Definitive Guide: Google Tools to Add Power to Your JavaScript
Closure is an difficult concept to understand in JavaScript, This hand-on guide has precisely what you need to learn this suite of tools in depth. Help you to write and maintain large and complex codebases — as Google has demonstrated by using Closure with Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps.Author and Closure contributor Michael Bolin has included numerous code examples and best practices.
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#9.JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides)
This book have nearly 300 reviews in amazon with more than 4.5 score, and contains 125 examples. This book contains core of JavaScript (variable, data type, expressions, operators, statements, functions, objects, arrays) and the Client-Side of JavaScript
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