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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Master the World's Most-Used Programming Language

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JavaScript is the programming language of the web and is used by more software developers today than any other programming language. For nearly 25 years this best seller has been the go-to guide for JavaScript programmers. The seventh edition is fully updated to cover the 2020 version of JavaScript, and new chapters cover classes, modules, iterators, generators, Promises, async/await, and metaprogramming. You’ll find illuminating and engaging example code throughout. This book is for programmers who want to learn JavaScript and for web developers who want to take their understanding and mastery to the next level. It begins by explaining the JavaScript language itself, in detail, from the bottom up. It then builds on that foundation to cover the web platform and Node.js. Topics include: Types, values, variables, expressions, operators, statements, objects, and arrays Functions, classes, modules, iterators, generators, Promises, and async/await JavaScript’s standard library: data structures, regular expressions, JSON, i18n, etc. The web platform: documents, components, graphics, networking, storage, and threads Node.js: buffers, files, streams, threads, child processes, web clients, and web servers Tools and language extensions that professional JavaScript developers rely on.
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Have you seen that Flanagan's JavaScript the Definitive Guide, the famously big book with the rhinoceros on its cover, has recently seen a new edition? I wonder how deep its JavaScript goes :-)

(https://www.amazon.co.uk/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-F...)

jmchuster
I've always enjoyed the famously small book "Javascript: The Good Parts", albeit a bit dated at this point
mayank
Unfortunately, the language has changed so much in recent years that I wouldn’t necessarily recommend that book anymore. A large number of fundamental features have been introduced since 2008, including async/await, lambda functions, class and extends syntax, proxies, and a ton of builtin methods like map() and forEach() on native list types.
chrstphrknwtn
I'm fairly sure Lambda functions have always been part of javascript?
ulucs
function () {}'s have been there forever, but () => {}'s have different semantics and are somewhat new
croddin
Anonymous functions indeed have. I think he means the arrow function syntax.
mayank
Yes, my bad. I meant arrow functions.
jmchuster
For sure, these were the old days before jQuery was even considered a standard library. It was still duking it out with YUI and Prototype.
petercooper
David has written about what's new, if anyone's interested: https://davidflanagan.com/2020/05/03/changes-in-the-seventh-...

I also (briefly) interviewed him about it here: https://superhighway.dev/david-flanagan-interview

ithrow
No PDF version?
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