getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
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A book series (2 published editions) on the JS language.
133 mentions on Hacker News by 119 people: 17 stories, 116 comments · first 2013-11-20 · latest 2025-03-17
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how about some more core Javascript https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
comment by tmaly · 2016-01-22 · in Ask HN: What should I learn right now to keep my programming skills current? -
Being a begunner myself I can highly recommend these resources: http://eloquentjavascript.net/ https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS See also: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...
comment by dusky3 · 2015-08-31 · in Ask HN: Getting started with JavaScript app development -
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/READM... is something that comes to my mind. In general, I think that there's a ton of the sort of material you're looking for! http://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular is another…
comment by adamzerner · 2015-08-25 · in Ask HN: Any web dev. material targeted to experienced software engineer? -
…on learning Javascript firs and foremost. Kyle Simpson's "You Don't Know JS" series is amazing: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS 2. Best practices are hard to come by, they essentially are: Crockford's Javascript The Good Parts,…
comment by roneesh · 2015-06-05 · in Brunch: Replace gulp, grunt and increase your dev speed -
…I can highly recommend this book if you'd like to dive deeper, I just finished reading it: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/tree/master/this%...
comment by mewwts · 2015-04-03 · in Classless OOP [pdf] -
Here is another deep explanation of generators, by Kyle Simpson: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async... Both of them are really good, and come at it from slightly different angles.
comment by callum85 · 2015-03-30 · in ES6 generators in depth -
Great point! The order of titles listed here is the intended reading order: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/READM... Also, the "Up & Going" title, Chapter 3, has descriptions about the titles and the narrative/story…
comment by _getify · 2015-02-16 · in You Don't Know JavaScript Book Series -
There's a bunch of stuff here even folk with a few years may not know. See the generators section at https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async... Learning JS is very different from other languages in that there's greater…
comment by nailer · 2015-02-16 · in You Don't Know JavaScript Book Series -
…the 3 minutes to read it, I'd be curious if it changes anything about your opinion of the title: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/prefa...
comment by _getify · 2015-02-16 · in You Don't Know JavaScript Book Series -
…takes really deep dives into various parts of the language. [0] http://eloquentjavascript.net/ [1] https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
comment by wldcordeiro · 2014-12-22 · in Ask HN: Good JavaScript introductions for experienced programmers? -
…JS" if you really want a clear understanding on "this" and how it relates to objects in Javascript. https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/tree/master/this%...
comment by madlynormal · 2014-12-08 · in “This” in JavaScript -
Here's[1] an open-source book dedicated to "this". [1]: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/tree/master/this%...
comment by john2x · 2014-12-08 · in “This” in JavaScript -
This series, https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS has been good for learning the nuances of javascript.
comment by gamesbrainiac · 2014-11-25 · in Ask HN: JavaScript resources -
OK, draft figures posted now. https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/tree/master/this%...
comment by _getify · 2014-04-02 · in Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That -
…here, first shown with inheritance+composition, and then shown with simpler OLOO-style delegation: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%...
comment by _getify · 2014-03-31 · in Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That -
…peer objects linked together, instead of the awkwardness of parent-child abstract class semantics. https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%...
comment by _getify · 2014-03-30 · in Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That