JavaScript links

• We will continuously add more content, but we will stay selective, to avoid information overload.
• Suggest a link: email us.
  • Please prefix the subject with [jscentral]
  • Note that we try to keep this selection of links very small, so your suggestion might not make it. Don’t be mad at us if it doesn’t.

News

Twitter

• JavaScript news:
  • @elijahmanor
  • @assaf
  • @jsgoodies
  • @jscentral
• JavaScript people:
  • @BrendanEich

News sites

• Top News – Echo JS
• JavaScript Weekly: A Free, Weekly JavaScript Email Newsletter

Community

User groups and conferences

• CommunityJS: JavaScript User Groups & Conferences
• JSConf.us (USA)
• JSConf.eu (Europe)

Job sites

• JavaScript Ninja Jobs
• NodeJobs.com
• Ars Technica Job Board: “Full-time job positions for web developers, IT professionals, programmers, database administrators, freelance and project work.”

Documentation

Introductions and style guides

• “A quick overview of JavaScript” by Axel Rauschmayer for 2ality (*)
• “The Essentials of Writing High Quality JavaScript” by Stoyan Stefanov for Nettuts+

Free online books

Core JavaScript

• “Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns” by Addy Osmani
• “Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming” by Marijn Haverbeke
• JavaScript Garden. Quote: “JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language.”

Node.js

• “Up and Running with Node.js” by Tom Hughes-Croucher
• The Node Beginner Book » A comprehensive Node.js tutorial

HTML/CSS

• “Dive Into HTML5” by Mark Pilgrim

Other

• “The Little MongoDB Book” by Karl Seguin

Compatibility tables

• ECMAScript 5 compatibility table
• When can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc.
• QuirksMode Compatibility Master Table [CSS, DOM]

Cheat sheets

• jQuery (Oscar Otero)

Help for people coming from another programming language

PHP:

• php.js [JavaScript equivalents of PHP functions]

Java:

• Java development 2.0: JavaScript for Java developers [Why JavaScript matters and an introduction]
• “Node.js for Java developers” by Andrew Glover for developerWorks

Resources

Content delivery networks (CDNs)

• Google (most major JavaScript libraries)
• Microsoft hosts several jQuery files, including jQuery Templates.
• cdnjs hosts less popular libraries.

About CDNs.

Disclaimer and Acknowledgements

Disclaimer

Acknowledgements

• Some links contributed by: Ben Wallis.