How to Learn JavaScript

JavaScript is a scripting language, like Python, originally designed for the Web for both client and server side. It was created in '95 by Brendan Eich ¹.

In the past it had mostly been used on the client side i.e. in browsers to create and control dynamic web content e.g. interactive forms, autocomplete suggestions, animations, slideshows…

Nowadays with the arrival of node.js JavaScript has also increasingly become popular on the server side.

Resources

Introduction/Beginner

• You Don't Know JS: Up & Going – Kyle Simpson (book). Link to PDF.
• JavaScript: The Good Parts (book), no ES6 (published in 2008). Link to book on publisher's site (paid).
• The Complete Node.js Developer Course (3rd Edition) (course). Link to Udemy (paid).
• nodeschool.io

Intermediate/Advanced

• JavaScript Patterns – Stoyan Stefanov (book). Available for free online or for purchase via O'Reilly.
• You Don't Know JS – Kyle Simpson (book series). Link to book content on Github.
• Effective JavaScript – David Herman (book). Link to book website (paid).

Frameworks

React

• Tutorials

  • YouTube channel

• Blog posts

  • React and Vega

  • Creating React components from Vega spec with react-vega

  • Plotly and React

• React docs and tutorials

  • Tutorial: Intro To React

Testing React:

• Mocha

  • https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/testing-react-components-with-enzyme-and-mocha

  • http://www.bebetterdeveloper.com/coding/getting-started-react-mocha.html

Further Resources