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More than ever, the web is a universal platform for all types of applications, and JavaScript is the language of the web. If you're serious about web development, it's not enough to be a decent JavaScript coder. You need to be ninja-stealthy, efficient, and ready for anything. This book shows you how.

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JavaScript is rapidly becoming a universal language for every type of application, whether on the web, on the desktop, in the cloud, or on mobile devices. When you become a JavaScript pro, you have a powerful skill set that’s usable across all these domains.

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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Second Edition uses practical examples to clearly illustrate each core concept and technique. This completely revised edition shows you how to master key JavaScript concepts such as functions, closures, objects, prototypes, and promises. It covers APIs such as the DOM, events, and timers. You’ll discover best practice techniques such as testing, and cross-browser development, all taught from the perspective of skilled JavaScript practitioners.

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Writing more effective code with functions, objects, and closures
Learning to avoid JavaScript application pitfalls
Using regular expressions to write succinct text-processing code
Managing asynchronous code with promises
Fully revised to cover concepts from ES6 and ES7

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You don’t have to be a ninja to read this book—just be willing to become one. Are you ready?

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John Resig is an acknowledged JavaScript authority and the creator of the jQuery library. Bear Bibeault is a web developer and author of the first edition, as well as coauthor of Ajax in Practice, Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action, and jQuery in Action from Manning. Josip Maras is a post-doctoral researcher and teacher.

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PART 1 - WARMING UP
JavaScript is everywhere
Building the page at runtime
PART 2 - UNDERSTANDING FUNCTIONS
First-class functions for the novice: definitions and arguments
Functions for the journeyman: understanding function invocation
Functions for the master: closures and scopes
Functions for the future: generators and promises
PART 3 - DIGGING INTO OBJECTS AND FORTIFYING YOUR CODE
Object orientation with prototypes
Controlling access to objects
Dealing with collections
Wrangling regular expressions
Code modularization techniques
PART 4 - BROWSER RECONNAISSANCE
Working the DOM
Surviving events
Developing cross-browser strategies

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John Resig is the Dean of Open Source and head of JavaScript development at Khan Academy and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He's also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 10, 2016
Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1617292850
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Bear Bibeault has been writing software for over four decades, starting with a Tic-Tac-Toe program written on a Control Data Cyber supercomputer via a 100-baud teletype. Because he has two degrees in Electrical Engineering, Bear should be probably designing antennas or something like that, but since his first job with Digital Equipment Corporation, he has always been much more fascinated with programming.
Bear has also served stints with companies such as Dragon Systems, Works.com, Logitech, and even served in the U. S. Military teaching infantry soldiers how to blow things up; the latter teaching him skills crucial for working in Agile software teams.
In addition to his day job, Bear also writes books (who knew?), runs a small business that creates web applications and offers other media services (but not wedding videography, never wedding videography), and helps to moderate CodeRanch.com as a "marshal" (senior moderator).
When not planted in front of a computer, Bear likes to cook big food (which accounts for his jeans size), dabble in photography and video editing, ride his Yamaha V-Star, and wear tropical print shirts.
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John Resig is the Dean of Open Source and head of JavaScript development at Khan Academy and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He’s also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.
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David Ivey
Outstanding intermediate level JS book
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2017
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I almost didn't read this book because of the name, as my assumption was that it was a beginner level JS book. I'm so glad that I decided to read it. This book is most definitely NOT a beginner book. However, it is written in easy to understand language. It covers all the major topics a good JS developer should understand. Closures, the context of 'this' depending on how a function is invoked, the use of apply(), call(), and bind() to set context, arrow functions and how they affect context, using apply() to supply a variable list of arguments, maps, memoizing functions, object orientation with prototypes, regular expressions, timers and threads, generators and promises, writing modular code, and much more.

I actually own the first edition of this book, and decided to get this edition as well. There is of course some duplication between the two versions. but there is also a huge amount of new material in this edition. It is well worth getting the 2nd edition even if you already own the 1st edition.

The book series You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures, You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes, and the other 4 volumes are also excellent intermediate level books (one of them is a beginner book), but they are a little more technical and not quite as easy to understand as this book. I don't believe there are any advanced level books. You get to the intermediate level, and then you program for about 10,000 hours to get to the advanced/expert level. On the other hand, Eloquent JavaScript, 2nd Ed.: A Modern Introduction to Programming is a pretty good book that will take you from beginner up to the intermediate level. Lastly, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides) has long been the JS bible for years, but it is now getting a little dated. When a new version ever gets released, I'd buy it immediately. JavaScript: The Good Parts also gets a lot of recommendations, but it too is getting a little dated.

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J. Seifert
Very useful for the advanced Javascript developer
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022
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First off, if you are just starting to learn Javascript, this is not the book for you, even if you're an experienced software developer in other languages. You'll be over your head by page 20. Do yourself a favor and start with a more introductory book.

But, if you've been writing Javascript for a couple of years, you're probably ready. I can't tell you how many times I've been stumped by events, promises, classes, ES6, and other topics that I've been able to solve once reading this book. It sometimes gets into the nitty-gritty of why something is happening the way it does, and explains the quirks of Javascript in a relatively clear manner.

Despite this book being written in 2016, it's still very relevant in today's Javascript environment. The authors were tackling information that was cutting-edge and sometimes not even present in browsers back then, so it hasn't aged as badly as other programming books.

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Not quite finished yet - but it has been extremely informative and helpful thus far. I learned javascript on the fly and not as my primary language so this book is filling in a lot of knowledge gaps for me. Someone on here rated the book low because the author didn't understand arrow functions - but the authors do understand arrow functions && go into detail about them w/r/t function context later in the book. Disregard that review.

It isn't a book for absolute beginners & instructions for set-up in the book were non-existent. In order to get the assert function working, clone the book repo add this to your html file in the head (be mindful of the actual directory path):
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Alex Panayi
Great for non-beginners, looking to spice up their Javascript!
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2018
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The book does an excellent job of explaining the more unique parts of Javascript, without getting bogged down into technical lingo.

The biggest issue I have with the book is that, there are way too many errors that can throw off people who are not coming from a programming background.

For example, Chapter 9 exercise number 3:
What are the contents of the array,
const samurai = [];
samurai.push("Oda");
samurai.unshift("Tomoe");
samurai.splice(1,0, "Hattori, "Takeda");
samurai.pop();

The answer is naturally just ["Hattori, "Takeda"], however when looking at the answer at the back, it still includes "Tomoe" and completely disregards the last .pop().

Most of these errors are small mistakes, however I can see how it can throw off people who are just beginners trying to get a firm grasp on programming in general.

Aside from that, this is a great book and has some really cool examples of how to solve issues that you normally would not find in traditional languages like C++, Java etc.

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Excellent book to really learn JavaScript
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A tried a few JavaScript learning sources before this one, and they would show me good ways toward particular ends, but left me wondering why the details were chosen the way they were, and what other possibilities existed. I felt too bogged down by lingering questions to feel confident. After reading this book, I feel as if I actually know the language JavaScript, not merely a way to use the language.

This book is probably not a good first introduction to the language, but it is an excellent way to complete your knowledge. If you want to start from scratch, I would recommend doing any language tutorial online, getting comfortable with that material, and then picking up this book. The book takes a browser-based approach, but the examples written so that they are easy to follow for other environments like the Node console, which is what I am using since I am more interested in Node.js.

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The best JS book?
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I've been looking to pick up a great JS book for people who already know how to program, and this one is great.
Just finished 3rd chapter, and so far the book is amazing: explanation on browser and functions is one of the best I have ever seen.
A must have, must read book for anybody serious about learning not just how to wire things together, but really understand JS.

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Phillipe Queiroz
Excelente livro
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Livro muito bom que ensina muitos conceitos importantes. Realmente te leva para outro nível de Javascript. Porém não é muito interessante para iniciantes na linguagem

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Buena compra
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One of the best books to turn your JS knowledge from intermediate to advanced, I loved every chapter. Concepts are explained in such a granular way that even if you haven't read about it much before hand, you'll be able to get a grasp of it and follow along.

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Para principiantes y avanzados
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Compré este libro y superó mis expectativas totalmente, hay cosas que ya damos por hecho pero en este libro te da una explicación sencilla del porque. Con este libro se entienden desde los conceptos más sencillos aprendiendo su nombre y forma de trabajo, hasta conceptos avanzados como ciclos de vida de los eventos y cómo son lanzados.

Este libro lo debería tener todo fan y desarrollador del lenguaje javascript. Y el precio en amazon es apenas por encima de su precio en USD marcado. Lo busqué en librerías pero era demasiado caro y solo lo manejaban por pedido.

Soy desarrollador web y estoy muy conforme con el contenido del libro. Esta muy bien impreso y las hojas son de buena calidad (es un papel suavecito como sedoso).

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Reviewed in Mexico on January 17, 2019
Compré este libro y superó mis expectativas totalmente, hay cosas que ya damos por hecho pero en este libro te da una explicación sencilla del porque. Con este libro se entienden desde los conceptos más sencillos aprendiendo su nombre y forma de trabajo, hasta conceptos avanzados como ciclos de vida de los eventos y cómo son lanzados.

Este libro lo debería tener todo fan y desarrollador del lenguaje javascript. Y el precio en amazon es apenas por encima de su precio en USD marcado. Lo busqué en librerías pero era demasiado caro y solo lo manejaban por pedido.

Soy desarrollador web y estoy muy conforme con el contenido del libro. Esta muy bien impreso y las hojas son de buena calidad (es un papel suavecito como sedoso).

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