JavaScript: The Good Parts

Douglas Crockford

2008 • 153 pages

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JavaScript, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined, has more than its share of the bad parts. This book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a JavaScript subset that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create extensible and efficient code. (back cover copy)

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Steve

JavaScript is my language... But it is seriously quirky. I can only imagine trying to understand it coming from another programming language! This book does an excellent job advocating for JavaScript, while telling you the common pitfalls!

May 15, 2018

Panashe Fundira

A good enough primer on the (many) warts of ES5 Javascript. Enough to get one up and running with the language.

June 11, 2017

Marcus

I wish all programming books were this concise and relevant, I'd probably read more of them if they were. This is a great book to get you up and running in one of my favorites languages, the much under-appreciated JavaScript.

January 21, 2011