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- Learn JavaScript Essentials (for all skill levels) One clear path to JavaScript mastery
- JavaScript Training Sucks 99 out of 100 JS developers lack the skills they need to fill hundreds of thousands of jobs. We can change that.
- The Two Pillars of JavaScript Part 1: Prototypal OO
- The Two Pillars of JavaScript Part 2: Functional Programming
- How to Fix the
classKeyword TL;DRclassis broken. Don't use it until it's fixed. - JavaScript Objects An excellent explanation of inheritance in JavaScript by Kyle Simpson
- Isomorphic JavaScript
- JavaScript Application Architecture on the Road to 2015 Addy Osmani
- The Dao of Immutability The Way of the Functional Programmer
- Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM Great read, even if you're not a React user.
- Introduction to Reactive Programming
- The General Theory of Reactivity What is all this talk about reactive? Functional? Promises? This is the beginning of a reactive programming bible.
- ES6 Generators A series of blog posts by Kyle Simpson
- Typed JavaScript Excellent post about the state of typed JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer
- Taming the Asynchronous Beast with CSP in JavaScript James Long
- ES6 Modules: The Final Syntax by @rauschma #AMDisDead
- Advanced Performance Audits with DevTools In-depth perf case studies with Paul Irish
- Classical Inheritance is Obsolete: How to Think in Prototypal OO by Eric Elliott
- Asynchronous Programming at Netflix Jafar Husain
- David Nolen: Immutability: Putting The Dream Machine To Work David Nolen
- Immutable Data and React by Lee Byron
- Delivering the Goods Paul Irish on one of the most important but overlooked topics in the development world today - page load times.
- Simplicity Matters A later version of the influential talk, "Simple Made Easy" by Rich Hickey
- JavaScript for Kids
- Eloquent JavaScript
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- Effective JavaScript
- Programming JavaScript Applications
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
- You Don't Know JS
- Understanding ECMAScript 6 by Nicholas C. Zakas
- Node.js in Action
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
- WebGL Fundamentals An interactive online book about graphics programming.
- nvm First install this...
- Node Then install Node (with nvm). You'll need this even if you're a front-end dev.
- npm Install lots of other things with npm. The package manager for JavaScript. Comes with Node.
- Sublime Text 3
- Node Inspector Debug Node code with the Chrome debug tools
- TraceGL Powerful runtime analysis of live JavaScript code
- Tern Static analysis in JavaScript
- JSDoc Pair with Tern for static analysis
- Nitrous.IO (Supports live collaboration / pair programming)
- Slack Chat for teams, with GitHub and Google hangouts integration
- For hangouts, just type /hangout in any channel
- PrettyDiff
- ES6 Fiddle
- Browserify Bundle modules for the browser.
- How to use NPM as a Build Tool
- JSHint
- ESLint
- babel-eslint Allow ES6 features to pass ESLint.
- eslint-plugin-no-class Forbid the ES6
classkeyword. Why? - Istanbul Code coverage reporting
- tape Minimal, dead simple unit testing. (This is all you need, really!)
- faucet Prettify unit testing output (like what comes from tape).
- Supertest The best way to test HTTP endpoints.
- Babel Transpile ES6, ES7 to ES5
- CoffeeScript
- Emscripten Frequently used for C/C++ JavaScript ports
- ES6 tools Addy Osmani's ES6 Tools list
- es5-shim Stable, production ready.
- es6-shim Somewhat stable, but a few things I thought were solid got shifted to ES7.
- es7-shim Experimental. Use with caution.
- HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills A fairly comprehensive list of HTML5 API polyfills.
- HTML5 Boilerplate You'll want to cherry-pick the best of this for your production apps. See Initializr.
- The Isomorphic Express Boilerplate Write apps using the same code for both the client and the server using Node, Express, and Browserify.
- rootrequire Require files relative to your project path using the normal node require().
- dotty Get deep properties using dot notation without throwing. e.g.,
dotty.get(req, 'user.id'); - native-promise-only An ECMAScript standard promise polyfill by Kyle Simpson.
- isomorphic-fetch A WHATWG fetch. standard polyfill.
- sseasy Server Sent Events for Node (HTML5 standard push notifications).
- EventSource browser Polyfill Required client-side patching to support Server Sent Events.
- jQuery Yes, I still use jQuery and so do 61% of the top 100,000 websites - for good reason.
- Blaze DOM-diffing isomorphic reactive templates from Meteor.
- Lodash-FP Like Underscore, but much faster, and featuring a more expressive API.
- RxJS Reactive extensions for JavaScript. What's reactive?
- Page.js Tiny client-side router, inspired by Express.
- Moment A lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
- Globalize i18n / translate your app for many languages and locations (locales)
- Lusca Secure your Express application. By the Kraken team at PayPal.
- Express The most popular framework for Node.
- Stampit Create objects from reusable, composable behaviors. Prototypal inheritance with stamps.
- Credential If you write Node apps with password logins, you need Credential.
- cuid GUIDs are broken - use cuid, instead.
- velocity & Velocity Motion Designer (VMD) UI animation library.
- is-my-json-valid A fast json-schema validator.
- inquirer.js Great library for building CLI tools.
- FIRST
- Polyfills
- HTML Imports
- Custom Elements
- Templates
- Shadow DOM
- x-gif This web component wins the internet.
- Vulcanize Don't let web components slow your app down. Bundle your HTML imports.
- PM2 Process monitoring / self repair
- New Relic Deep insights into the performance and health of your production apps
- Sauce Labs Cross platform web application testing with great collaboration and integration support
- Travis CI CI, of course
- Docker Run your CI process using the same OS configs as your production systems.
- Shippable Docker-based hosted build / CI
- JavaScript on Google+
- HTML5 on Google+
- Node.js on Google+
- IRC ##JavaScript irc://irc.freenode.net/javascript
- IRC #node.js irc://irc.freenode.net/node.js
- IRC #io.js irc://irc.freenode.net/io.js The Node fork
- DemoJS The JavaScript demoscene party
- JS1k JavaScript demos in 1k of memory
- JS13k Games JavaScript games in 13k of memory
- FightCode game program virtual battle bots and climb the leaderboard
- Node Knockout The legendary Node competition
- JavaScript for Kids
- LearnToMod Mod Minecraft with JavaScript
- The Young Person's Guide to Programming in Minecraft
- Addy Osmani App architecture expert, Chrome dev tools champion
- Angus Croll Author, "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript"
- Axel Rauschmayer ES Next evangelist, author
- Brendan Eich Created JavaScript
- David Nolen Great functional programming content
- David Herman Author, "Effective JavaScript"
- EchoJS News and links
- Eric Elliott That's me. O'Reilly author. JavaScript architect. JS Instructor.
- Jafar Husain Great talks on RxJS, ES next, etc...
- James Halliday aka Substack - author of
one millionNode modules you probably use. - James Long CSP, functional programming advocate, Mozilla developer
- JavaScript Cheerleader Mover & shaker, JavaScript evangelist, documentary film maker
- JavaScript Daily News and links
- Jordan Harband Keeping us ahead of the JS curve
- Kyle Simpson Author, YDKJS - O'Reilly, JS Instructor, open web evangelist
- Marijn Haverbeke Author, "Eloquent JavaScript"
- Nicholas C. Zakas Author, speaker
- Nick Morgan Author, "JavaScript for Kids"
- Paul Irish Developer evangelist, Chrome dev tools champion
- Reginald Braithwaite Author, "JavaScript Allongé", speaker, GitHub
- YDKJS You Don't Know JS, O'Reilly book series by Kyle Simpson