A modern introduction to an essential language.

Copyright © 2017 Baptiste Pesquet

"The JavaScript Way" is a book to help you get off to a good start in the JavaScript universe or catch up with its newest evolutions. Here are some highlights:

• Designed to be as beginner-friendly as possible, while covering some advanced concepts and following good practices.
• No complex setup needed: start working immediately from your browser.
• Written from scratch using the latest language standard (ES6/ES2015), avoiding awkwardnesses from the past and giving you future-proof knowledge.
• Each chapter is accompanied by a series of exercises to put your newly acquired skills into practice.

This repository contains the book source files. Your contributions are most welcome.

Read a bit more about this project here.

• Introduction
  • About this book
  • Welcome to programming
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • What you'll need
• Part I: Learn to code programs
  • 3, 2, 1... Code!
  • Play with variables
  • Add conditions
  • Repeat statements
  • Write functions
  • Create your first objects
  • Store data in arrays
  • Work with strings
  • Understand object-oriented programming
  • Discover functional programming
  • Project: a social news program
• Part II: Create interactive web pages
  • What's a web page?
  • Discover the DOM
  • Traverse the DOM
  • Modify the page
  • React to events
  • ...
• Part III: Build web apps
  • ...
• Conclusion
  • ...
  • Acknowledgements

More to come!

A published version is available on Leanpub on a pay-as-you-want pricing model. Pricing will eventually change when the book is complete. If you like what you see so far, your financial contribution to this effort would be much appreciated.