Maintainable JavaScript: Writing Readable Code

This book is must read for every team that is working on bigger JavaScript project. The authorhas that kind of experience, he worked in the development of the Yahoo page and explains whatpractices should be followed in order the code to be scalable, readable and maintainable.If you are experienced developer you may know the most of this stuff. I have experience in OO programingbut I am relatively new in JavaScript so this book helped me to understand some practices and principlesthat are specific for JavaScript. In my opinion the part where the configuration for build, documentationtools is explained can be shorten because you have the specific tool documentation for that.If JavaScript team reads this book before beginning of the project and implements the advices and practiceswritten here it will have much easier job later in the project.

This book works well as a supplement to other more technical JavaScript books. It is an easy read that had me checking bits of my code as a result. Like others, such as "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford, you don't need to read front-to-back as the sections are self-contained and well indexed.

Zakas is easily one of the best figures in front-end development, and specifically JavaScript. I recommend all of his books and various youtube videos as well. Heck, I even found him on front-end masters, and continue to learn from his easy to understand approach to grasping some very difficult concepts.

I wanted something with a few more real world examples but I found the book to be like an english primer. telling me how the code should be written but with very basic examples that don get into the more complicated scenarios. If you are knew, read this to know how to format what you write and structure for longevity of the code base but don't expect to learn how to "write" code with it.

Very good introductory to style guides. Also read "clean code" if you want more in depth style guidelines and don't have trouble reading java code.

Few books leave you feeling tangibly better at practicing a computer language. This book is one of them. If you're not sure whether or not you have good habits and a good process for working on javascript projects, you will after completing this book.

Very concise and easy to read. Lots of great organization tips to think about when writing in any language plus lots of JavaScript details that I had no idea about having mainly learned JavaScript through examples.

When I bought this book actually I was expecting more methodology, with more concepts, classes, oriented objects, templates (more), or similar, but I didn't find anything of this, only basic (I think too much basics) hints, my code continue being the same after reading this book. I continue having the same problem with javascript.

I particularily liked this book. The author is a JavaScript veteran who has gone through all anti-patterns himself. The books teaches you a lot of reasonable conventions to stick to. In most of the cases the author carefully explains why doing it this or that way is actually the best idea. One of the shocking things is his advice "don't test aginst null". But if you read the chapter then it all makes sense. I actually learned a lot about the language while reading this book. I still don't like the language but now I can see how smart peaople have established conventions around the sometimes idiotic rules of the language. Finally, this book also talks about tools you can use to automate the testing and buildingof your Javascript files.

This is a must read for any javascript programmer.Its is written in a style that allows easy reading and everything is explained with good examples.

Questo libro è breve, conciso ed utilissimo. Non vi insegnerà il linguaggio ma i modi migliori per scrivere codice pulito, leggibile e mantenibile. Se siete principianti vi sarà utilissimo e anche se siete esperti potrebbe darvi qualche interessante dritta.

Very good book!