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JS: The Good Parts is obsolete
by megawatthours 10y ago
JS: The Good Parts is obsolete
- alexchantavy 10y agoAny recommendations for something more up to date?
- hackermailman 10y agoThe 'You Don't Know JS series' https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS or this http://eloquentjavascript.net/ http://eloquentjavascript.net/
- gcp 10y agoI like "Understanding ECMAScript 6" from N. Zakas together with his "Principles of Object Oriented JavaScript" book.
- hcoyote 10y agoSimilarly, certain books show up multiple times, once for each version. It would be great if those were consolidated to the latest version of the book. An example of this is when you search for Hadoop. You'll find all 4 editions of Tom White's book show up in the top 10 listing.
- awfgylbcxhrey 10y agoWhy? I'm genuinely curious, as I've only ever seen the book recommend.
- gcp 10y agoIt predates ES5 and ES2015. I'm not sure that makes it bad though, it's still a good introduction?
- wwweston 10y agoReally? It's certainly incomplete, as there are some new good parts. But most of the language is still there, and I'd rather imagine the same perspective that helped a lot of programmers coming from other languages adapt to it is still helpful.
- jayflux 10y agoTrue, but some of the things Crockford moans at have been fixed in ES6/ES7