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A book on JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer. This book makes JavaScript less challenging to learn for newcomers, by offering a modern view that is as consistent as possible. Covers all essential features of JavaScript, up to and including ES2022. You can read the entire contents online, or order PDF/EPUB/MOBI versions for $34 JavaScript for Impatient …
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Percollate is a command-line tool that turns web pages into beautifully formatted PDF, EPUB, or HTML files. Installation per NPM npm install -g percollate Once installed you can, for example, run this: percollate epub https://brm.us/at-layer -o css-at-layer.epub Percollate will automatically extract the main content (powered by Mozilla’s Readability.js), perform some enhancements on it (such as …
Update on the aformentioned Tackling TypeScript — book on TypeScript by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer: the entire book (except for two bonus chapters) can now be read freely online. Tackling TypeScript: Upgrading from JavaScript →
Sara Vieira (@NikkitaFTW) published her book “The Opinionated Guide to React”. It’s 190 pages of React Recipes and Code Examples. This book is my personal map of the tips, power-ups and not-so-obvious solutions to common questions and problems that I’ve come across during 4 years of React development. I have been finding some of the …
New book on TypeScript by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, who also wrote Exploring ES6 (and a few other books on JavaScript). This book consists of two parts: Part 1 is a quick start for TypeScript that teaches you the essentials quickly. Part 2 digs deeper into the language and covers many important topics in detail. This …
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Symfony 5 recently got released. Fabien Potencier – Symfony’s creator – has also published a book along with its release. This book – written by Symfony’s creator – lays out a pragmatic approach to developing web applications with Symfony 5: from scratch to production. Whether you are discovering Symfony for the first time or refreshing …
Free book by Chris Fernandi: The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, I believe many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this book, I want to share some ideas on how to fix it, and explore a new set of best practices to replace what we do today. …
On A List Apart you can read an excerpt from the book Resilient Management by Lara Hogan. It’s from chapter 2, entitled “Grow your teammates”: To spur this course-correction and growth in your teammates, you’ll end up wearing four different hats: Mentoring: lending advice and helping to problem solve based on your own experience. Coaching: …
An in-depth book on ECMAScript 6, for JavaScript programmers. Extensive book written by Axel Rauschmayer (whom you might know from 2ality.com), available for free online. It’s also possible to purchase as an ebook-version (.epub et al) of the book. Exploring ES6 – Upgrade to the next version of JavaScript →