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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Third Edition
by Trevor Burnham, Bear Bibeault, Josip Maras and John Resig
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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Third Edition
If you’re serious about web development, you need to be ninja-stealthy, efficient, and ready for anything! This book will turn you into a killer JavaScript coder. In it, you’ll learn techniques for writing efficient code, applications, and libraries that you can apply to any JavaScript or TypeScript project.
From websites to servers, mobile apps to enterprise software, JavaScript is everywhere. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja has trained thousands of developers in the art of creating robust and performant JavaScript applications for almost any domain. Now back for its third edition, this new version of the acclaimed bestseller contains fresh coverage of TypeScript and web frameworks like React, as well as game-changing tools like ESLint.
In Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Third Edition, you’ll learn how to:
• Read and write idiomatic JavaScript and TypeScript code
• Utilize async constructs like promises and generators
• Catch bugs early in development with ESLint
• Write “codemods” to manipulate JavaScript code
• Understand how web frameworks like React work under the hood
About the book
Whether you’re a JavaScript novice or a battle-hardened web developer, you’ll love Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Third Edition! Written for web developers who know the basics of JavaScript or TypeScript, this amazing book delivers best practices for writing code that’s readable, reliable, and performant. This fully revised third edition includes TypeScript techniques, along with modern tools like ESLint that help you catch bugs before they crash your apps. Plus, you’ll find practical tips on overcoming common pain points in modern JavaScript development, such as the divide between ECMAScript and CommonJS modules.
About the reader
You don't have to be a ninja to read this book—just willing to become one.
About the author
Trevor Burnham is a frontend engineer at AWS. He is the author of several previous books on JavaScript, including Async JavaScript and Test-Driven React.
John Resig, Bear Bibeault, and Josip Maras are authors of the first and second editions of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja.
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- Publisher
- Manning
- Authors
- Trevor Burnham, Bear Bibeault, Josip Maras, John Resig
- Format
- Paperback
- Release date
- Apr 27, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781633436121
- ISBN-10
- 1633436128
- Pages
- 450
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