Rediscovering JavaScript: Master ES6, ES7, and ES8 1st Edition

"There's a new noise ordinance in JavaScript- it advices us to use elegant, concise, and pleasant code in place of noisy, verbose, repetitive boilerplate code." The quote from the book sums it up nicely. Great examples of when and how to use the newest language features to write clean, readable JavaScript in a more functional side effect free style.

Covered all key things I was looking for to level up in modern JS, written in a clearly worded manner.

It delivers as described in a concise fashion, with lots of clear and clean examples.

Very hood teacher

I've read a few Javascript books and none of them "have gotten through to me" like this one. (Of course, one could argue that that's because I'm incredibly thick, but that's beside the point. ;-)This book doesn't laboriously cover the syntax of all of the different statements - which is fine, as there are a slew of other books that do that. Rather it focuses on the new things you can do in ES6 and beyond.The author not only discusses what's new, but why you should use the new features/constructs and how they are better than the traditional way of doing things in Javascript.I really like the way he went into arrow functions, destructuring, classes and modules, the last one including nice descriptions of imports and exports.And maybe best of all (at least for me) was his explanations of promises - along with async and await - which included understandable and highly-illustrative code examples. And they were small so you could wrap your head around them and really understand what was going on. (Sometimes coding examples in books like these are so long and/or complex that you just kinda give up on them.)And finally, to top it off, the guy has a sense of humor, which he scatters throughout the book - which, to me, makes dense, technical material easier to read and hang in there with.Note: I didn't read the last 2 chapters on metaprogramming, so I can't comment on them.

I really like your books (I have your Kotlin book, too!) Your writing style is excellent and the examples are very well thought out and illustrative.However, on page 143, where you change the prototype of ReputablePerson, how does that affect its contructor? Does super(firstName, lastName) now refer to the constructor of ComputerWiz? If so, that empty class doesn't have a constructor like that! So I don't see how this can work. Please help!

I have attended some of Venkat’s training sessions at conferences and I am a huge fan of his teaching style. This book doesn’t disappoint me. I liked the way he teaches new features by first introducing problems with old constructs. Our human brains learn best by compare and contrast rather than learning something in isolation. So this book not only helps you to learn new features but also helps you bad practices. Also, It helps me when I have to work with legacy Javascript code. As always Venkat’s throws out a lot of humor which makes this book an entertaining read.

Bought this book with gift certificate from my employer to learn some of the newer Javascript syntax. Problem is that is not a very good book for instruction. The author may be a fine programmer but is not a good teacher. Some of the exercises don't accurately reference the code. To use the author's favorite phrase, this is a "smelly" book.

As a backend developer, I always struggled for loving Javascript but reading this book totally changed my mind. It's concise and to the point, teaches you what you need to know about Javascript in a very easy to understand and intuitive way.

Allows to learn a lot of cool things but the book keeps falling apart :")

This book isn't for JavaScript beginners. It's for programmers who already know a bit of JavaScript, but need to get up to speed with the latest developments (ECMAScript 6 and onwards). I found that as such, it gave just the right amount of information to explain topics without going into unnecessary depth. It is very much an intermediate level book. It also doesn't take too much time or effort to read.

this book is a must have for anyone learning or refreshing their skills in javascript