I made a little repo of books and articles for JavaScript devs to read that either I've read or have been recommended to me by other devs.

twhite96 / js-dev-reads

A list of books 📚and articles 📝 for the discerning web developer to read.

The JavaScript Developer's Reading List

A list of hand-picked books and articles for JavaScript developers

• The problem 😕
• Solution 😎
  • Things to think about 🤔
  • Note ❗
• Books 📚
  • React & GraphQL
  • Design patterns in JavaScript
  • React Native
  • Node
  • Vue
  • Core concepts
  • Software architecture
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • Miscellaneous
• Articles 📝
  • React
  • Core concepts
  • JavaScript misc.
  • Soft skills

The problem 😕

There are a lot of web development reading materials out there, from books to videos to blog posts. How can you know what is actually worth reading?

Solution 😎

Here I have hand-picked web development/JavaScript books and articles I have personally read or have come highly recommended to me by other developers.

Things to think about 🤔

Free books. Who doesn't like free books?! But if you are able, buy the book if it is offered as an option. No worries if you can't. But if it helps the…

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Feel free to add your favorites but please keep it to JavaScript and maybe, once I get a feel for who wants what, I'll add other web tech like CSS and HTML. Also, make sure you've either read the book or it came highly recommended to you. I tried to avoid really bad books and articles from making it on this list so please keep that in mind.

Let me know what you think! 📚📝

Comments

[Jason]

Hi Tiffany! Thanks for the list! Recommendations for Junior vanilla JavaScript dev looking to get into deeper js and Ajax and frameworks? Specifically angular (and which version of angular to start with). Thank you!

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[Jean Kaplansky]

Nice! Thanks!

[ankitdiixit21]

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[JayCruz]

Awesome list so far! I've read some of the books listed like the YDKJS series and I'm currently re-reading Eloquent JavaScript.

[Orim Dominic Adah]

Me too.. Currently reading Eloquent JS

[Rodrigue Kayembe]

Thank you so much! About to dive into this list.

[Fatima Tariq]

Hey Tiffany! Thanks for the guide. Really helpful

[tiff]

My pleasure! Hope you get some use out of it.

[Stefan Scorse]

Hi Tiffany, I want to get started with JavaScript which book do you think I should get started with?

[Drozerah]

Hi Stefan, if you are new to JavasScript let me introduce this book which is well explained : JavaScript for web designers by Mat Marquis

[tiff]

YDKJS: Up & Going by Kyle Simpson. It's free to read on GitHub and I think it's free elsewhere but I'd have to look.

[Lenmor Ld]

Thanks a lot! I'll be sharing this in my next JS beginner workshop

[tiff]

Wow! Thank you! 🙏🏾

[Alexandre Ferreira]

Cool! Thanks Tiffany!

[qheolet]

Thanks, this is what make JavaScript stand from all programming languages is it comunities. Always helping each others and solving the community problem together. A hooray!!!