JavaScript links
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News
- JavaScript news:
- JavaScript people:
News sites
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.”
- “Up and Running with Node.js” by Tom Hughes-Croucher
- The Node Beginner Book » A comprehensive Node.js tutorial
- “Dive Into HTML5” by Mark Pilgrim
- “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 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.
Disclaimer and Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
(*) 2ality is maintained by Axel Rauschmayer, one of JS Central’s editors.
Acknowledgements
- Some links contributed by: Ben Wallis.