veganaize/JS

A list of resources primarily for classic Javascript ≤ ES 5.1 — its best era!

Style

• Vanilla JS
• Guidelines for styling JavaScript code examples - Mozilla
• Google JavaScript Style Guide (oldest snapshot)
• Closure Linter - ES5

Books

• You Don't Know JS (1st Edition)
  • Up & Going
  • Scope & Closures
  • this & Object Prototypes
  • Types & Grammar
  • Async & Performance
  • ES6 & Beyond
• Functional-Light JavaScript
• Eloquent Javascript (2nd Edition)
• Javascript Succinctly (pdf) (epub) (mobi) (github)
• Javascript Wikibook

Resources

• w3schools
  • js tutorial
  • js reference
• mdn (offline markdown)
  • js tutorial
  • js
    • js guide
    • js reference
• freecodecamp
  • js dsa tutorials (original version!)
• codecademy
  • js reference

Tools

• DEVTOOLS
  • console - mdn
  • Browser Developer Console - treehouse
  • Chromium Dev Tools
    • keyboard shortcuts
  • Firefox Dev Tools
    • keyboard shortcuts
    • web console
    • Mozilla's Command Line Options - 2003-2005
    • Firefox/CommandLineOptions - mozilla wiki
    • firefox.exe -h | more <-- Pipe required for Windows because of bug.
    • firefox.exe -P dev --new-instance --devtools --private-window
    • about:config

    devtools.cache.disabled                   = true
    devtools.webconsole.persistlog            = true
    devtools.editor.tabsize                   = 4
    devtools.theme                            = dark
    devtools.chrome.enabled                   = true
    devtools.editor.autocomplete              = false
    devtools.editor.autoclosebrackets         = false
    devtools.webconsole.input.autocomplete    = false
    devtools.webconsole.input.eagerEvaluation = false
    

• JSDOC
  • jsdoc - github
• TRANSPILERS
  • Closure Compiler (github)
  • Traceur Compiler - ES6 to ES5 transpiler

Techniques

• AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript And Xml
  • Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
  • Wikipedia
• IIFE - Immediately Invoked Function Expression
  • Alman
  • MDN
  • Wikipedia
• UNICODE
  • What every JavaScript developer should know about Unicode
  • UTF-16 characters, Unicode code points, and grapheme clusters - mdn
  • UTF-16 - wikipedia

Standards / Conventions

• Netscape
  • JS 1.0 - 1995 - Netscape 2.0¹
    • JavaScript Authoring Guide (updated)
  • JS 1.1 - 1996 - Netscape 3.0²
    • New in JavaScript 1.1 - mdn
    • JavaScript Guide
  • JS 1.2 - 1997 - Netscape 4.0-4.05³
    • New in JavaScript 1.2 - mdn
    • JavaScript 1.2 Events - devedge
    • JavaScript Guide
    • JavaScript Reference
  • JS 1.3 - 1998 - Netscape 4.06⁴ - 4.79⁵
    • ES1 Compliant
    • New in JavaScript 1.3 - mdn
    • What's New in JavaScript 1.3 - devedge
    • The JavaScript Console - devedge
    • Client-Side JavaScript Guide (pdf) (zip)
    • Client-Side JavaScript Reference (pdf) (zip)
  • JS 1.4
    • New in JavaScript 1.4 - mdn
    • Core JavaScript Guide (pdf) (zip)
    • Core JavaScript Reference (pdf) (zip)
  • JS 1.5 - 2000 - Mozilla⁶ / Netscape 6⁷ / Firefox 1.0⁸
    • ES3 Compliant
    • New in JavaScript 1.5 - mdn
    • Core JavaScript Guide (zip)
    • Core JavaScript Reference (zip)
  • JS 1.6 - 2005 - Firefox 1.5⁹
    • New in JavaScript 1.6 - mdn
  • JS 1.7 - 2006 - Firefox 2.0¹⁰
    • New in JavaScript 1.7 - mdn
  • JS 1.8 - 2008 - Firefox 3.0¹¹
    • New in JavaScript 1.8 - mdn
  • JS 1.8.1 - 2009 - Firefox 3.5¹²
    • New in JavaScript 1.8.1 - mdn
  • JS 1.8.2 - 2010 - Firefox 3.6¹³
    • Only Minor Changes
  • JS 1.8.5 - 2011 - Firefox 4.0¹⁴
    • ES5 Compliant
    • Last JavaScript Version
    • New in JavaScript 1.8.5 - mdn
  • DHTML - 1997 - Netscape 4³
    • DHTML Explained
    • Dynamic HTML in Netscape Communicator
    • HTML Central
    • CSS Central
    • DOM Central
    • JavaScript Style Sheets and Dynamic Fonts
• ECMA 262
  • ES1 - 1997 (pdf only) (untampered original)
  • ES2 - 1998 (pdf only) - Netscape 4³
  • ES3 - 1999 (pdf only) - Mozilla⁶ / Netscape 6⁷ / Firefox 1⁸
  • ES5 - 2009 (pdf only) - Firefox 4¹⁴
  • ES5.1 - 2011 (pdf)
  • ES6 - 2015 (pdf) - Firefox 54¹⁵
  • ES.next - latest

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Footnotes

1. Netscape 2.02 [win32] [linux-i486] ↩

2. Netscape 3.04 [win32] linux-x86] ↩

3. Netscape 4.04 [win32] ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Netscape 4.08 [win32] ↩

5. Netscape 4.79 [win32] [linux-x86] ↩

6. Mozilla 1.0.2 [win32] [linux-i686] ↩ ↩²

7. Netscape 6.01 [win32] [linux-i686] ↩ ↩²

8. Firefox 1.0.8 [win32] [linux-i686] ↩ ↩²

9. Firefox 1.5.0.12 [win32] [linux-i686] ↩

10. Firefox 2.0.0.20 [win32] [linux-i686] ↩

11. Firefox 3.0.18 [win32] [linux-i686] ↩

12. Firefox 3.5.19 [win32] [linux-i686] ↩

13. Firefox 3.6.28 [win32] [linux-i686] ↩

14. Firefox 4.0.1 [win32] [linux-i686] [linux-x86_64] ↩ ↩²

15. Firefox 54.0.1 [win32] [win64] [linux-i686] [linux-x86_64] ↩