Primary reading:
JavaScript Advanced Programming: A very complete classic introductory book, known as one of the JavaScript Bible, detailed in detail, the latest version of the third edition has been released, the proposed purchase.
The return of the king of JavaScriptone of Baidu's web development project managers wrote that beginner's introductory tutorials are also good.
Intermediate reading:
the JavaScript authoritative guide: Another JavaScript Bible, explained in very detailed, is intermediate reading, recommended to buy.
"JavaScript.The.Good.Parts": Yahoo Daniel, JavaScript spiritual leader Douglas Crockford's masterpiece, although only 100 pages, but Abas Ah! It is highly recommended to read.
"High-performance JavaScript": Another masterpiece of Nicholas C. Zakas, author of the Advanced programming of JavaScript.
"Eloquent JavaScript": This book is more than 200 pages, very short, through a few very classic examples (Aunt Emily's cat, miserable hermit, simulation ecosystem, push box game, etc.) to introduce the knowledge and application of all aspects of JavaScript.
Advanced reading:
"JavaScript Patterns": The book introduces a variety of classic patterns, such as constructors, Singleton, factory and so on, worth learning.
"Pro.JavaScript.Design.Patterns": Apress Publisher's book on JavaScript design patterns is very good.
"Developing JavaScript Web Applications": Build rich application of good books, for the MVC model has a more in-depth explanation, but also some of the process of the library to explain.
"Developing Large Web Applications": Not only the introduction of JavaScript, but also the introduction of CSS, HTML, but the introduction of the content is very good, really consider a large web program, how to design JavaScript architecture, it is worth reading.
to be a good front-end engineer, you also need to continue to work:" High-performance Web site Construction Guide", "Yahoo Engineer's website performance optimization Recommendations", "YSLOW" Performance optimization recommendations, "website refactoring", "Web development Agile Road", "JQuery Library", "Front end framework", "HTML5", "CSS3"..... These all need to be researched deeply!
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