Javascript Absolute Beginners Guide, 3rd Edition

Make the most of today’s JavaScript–even if youve never programmed anything before. JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, Third Edition is the fastest way to learn JavaScript, starting with the basics and gradually going deeper and broader into all the techniques you need to begin building highly scalable, performant web apps and experiences. Do what you want, the way you want, one incredibly easy step at a time!

Learn all this, and much more

Start fast with the basics: values, variables, functions, conditionals, loops, closures, and more

Create well-organized, clear code thats easy to reuse and improve

Learn proven best practices to build web apps that scale with outstanding performance

Make the most of powerful object-oriented techniques to build complex, extensible apps

Wrangle data like a pro by learning how to use the popular JSON standard, arrays, web storage, and more

Translate your ideas into visually compelling and interactive content by learning how to work with the DOM

Identify and fix issues quickly by learning how to use the in-browser development tools

Understand the ins and outs of events and how you can use them to react to actions the user or the page will perform

Learn how to ensure your code runs lightning-fast with extra coverage of performance optimizations and techniques you can use

Learn the basics that set you up to more quickly use modern web frameworks like React, Vue, Next.js, and Nuxt

Explore advanced features such as object destructuring, making web requests, the class syntax, accessing your webcam, variable hoisting, and more

Get up-to-speed on the latest JavaScript enhancements proposed by the EcmaScript standard