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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- JavaScript References
- Tutorials
- Free eBooks
- Books
- Blogs
- Videos
- Interactive learning
- ES6 and above
- DOM related
- Node.js
- 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.
- ECMAScript® Language Specification - The standard JavaScript is based on. Only for very advanced learners.
- MDN JavaScript Guide - Tutorials covering language basics.
- JavaScript Closures Demystified – Covering closures. From basics to use cases. Has useful comments.
- Promises - Learning promises step by step.
- Array operations - Covering the usefulness of Array’s map, reduce, and filter methods.
- Async functions - Shows how to use async functions to make promises friendly.
- Chrome DevTools - Everything you need to know about the debugging tools built into Google Chrome.
- Pure functions - Answers the question »What is a Pure Function?« epicly.
- Glossary of Modern JavaScript Concepts: Part 1 - Learn the fundamentals of functional programming, reactive programming, and functional reactive programming in JavaScript.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- == ? === ??? ...#@^% - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
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