Javascript: Best Practice

by James Kolce, Moritz Kroger, Ivan Čurić

There's no doubt that the JavaScript ecosystem changes fast. Not only are new tools and frameworks introduced and developed at a rapid rate, the language itself has undergone big changes with the introduction of ES2015 (aka ES6). Understandably, many articles have been written complaining about how difficult it is to learn modern JavaScript development these days. We're aiming to minimize that confusion with this set of books on modern JavaScript.

This book presents modern JavaScript best practice, utilizing the features now available in the language that enable you to write more powerful code that is clean, performant, maintainable, and resusable. It contains:



The Anatomy of a Modern JavaScript Application by James Kolce

Clean Code with ES6 Default Parameters & Property Shorthands by Moritz Kruger

JavaScript Performance Optimization Tips: An Overview by Ivan CuriC

JavaScript Design Patterns: The Singleton by Samier Saeed

JavaScript Object Creation: Patterns and Best Practices by Jeff Mott

Best Practices for Using Modern JavaScript Syntax by M. David Green

Flow Control in Modern JS: Callbacks to Promises to Async/Await by Craig Buckler

JavaScript's New Private Class Fields, and How to Use Them by Craig Buckler
This book is for all front-end developers who wish to improve their JavaScript skills. You'll need to be familiar with HTML and CSS and have a reasonable level of understanding of JavaScript in order to follow the discussion.

99 pages, ebook

Published May 31, 2018

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

The structure is good and it sums up pretty much all that's been going on with ES. The format is a bit different than a full-blown book on the topic, but it doesn't bother me. What does, however, is that it falls short of delivering enough concrete examples of those advertised best practices. Since we're talking performance, maybe expanding more on profiling would have been more useful than what felt like a table of contents from MDN.