free javascript resources

helpful articles, posts, tutorials, etc.

general

• JavaScript For Cats by Max Ogden - short introduction to the Javascript programming language
• Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke - good all-around book that covers the language in the browser and in node.js

design patterns & OOP

• Learning Javascript Design Patterns - Addy Osmani
• Prototypal Inheritance in Javascript - Douglas Crockford
• Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript - MDN
• An Introduction to Javascript ES6 Classes - Alex Gorbatchev (StrongLoop)
• Learning Advanced JavaScript - John Resig
• Javascript Design Patterns - Carl Danley

asynchronous code

• Callback Hell
• Chapter 7: Control Flow - from Mixu's Node book
• Concurrency model and Event Loop - MDN
• Javascript Promises - There and back again - Jake Archibald (HTML Rocks)
• How do Promises Work
• By example: Continuation-passing style in JavaScript

functional programming

• Chapter 6: Functional Programming - from Eloquent Javascript
• Functional Javascript Workshop - @timoxley
• Faster JavaScript Memoization For Improved Application Performance - Addy Osmani
• Eloquent JavaScript with Underscore.js - @antivanov

algorithms and data structures

• Karl Seguin's Simple Algorithms - common algorithms and data structures described with Javascript
• Little Lisp Interpreter - Mary Rose Cook
• Big O Search Algorithms in Javascript - Bradley Braithwaite

node.js

• Node: Up and Running - Tom Hughes-Croucher (O'Reilly)
• 10 Habits of a Happy Node Hacker (2016) - Heroku
• Felix's Node.js Guide - Felix Geisendörfer
• stream-handbook - @substack
• Build a RESTful API Using Node and Express 4 - Chris Sevilleja
• Event loop from 10,000ft - core concept behind Node.js

es6

• Using ECMAScript 6 Today - Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Lodash and ECMAScript 2015 - Marius Schulz
• • JavaScript Modules: A Beginner's Guide - Preethi Kasireddy