A very exclusive collection of only must-have JavaScript links. I'm only listing my favorite links. Nothing else makes the cut. Feel free to suggest links if you think they're good enough to make this list. The really curious should feel free to browse the comments to find other links. I can't guarantee the quality of links in the comments.
Some of these links are affiliate links, meaning that if you make a purchase, I might earn a little money. This has absolutely no bearing on whether or not links make the list. None, whatsoever. However, it does allow me more resources to fight poverty with code. Every little bit counts.
- Learn JavaScript Essentials (for all skill levels) - One clear path to JavaScript mastery
- JavaScript Training Sucks 99 out of 100 JS developers lack the skills they need to fill hundreds of thousands of jobs. We can change that.
- The Two Pillars of JavaScript Part 1: Prototypal OO
- The Two Pillars of JavaScript Part 2: Functional Programming
- JavaScript Objects An excellent explanation of inheritance in JavaScript by Kyle Simpson
- The General Theory of Reactivity What is all this talk about reactive? Functional? Promises? This is the beginning of a Reactive programming bible.
- Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM Great read, even if you're not a React user.
- ES6 Generators A series of blog posts by Kyle Simpson
- Typed JavaScript - Excellent post about the state of typed JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer
- Isomorphic JavaScript
- JavaScript for Kids
- Eloquent JavaScript
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- Programming JavaScript Applications
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
- You Don't Know JS
- Sublime Text 3
- Tern Static analysis in JavaScript
- Nitrous.IO (Supports live collaboration / pair programming)
- Slack Chat for teams, with GitHub and Google hangouts integration
- For hangouts, just type /hangout in any channel
- JSHint
- ESLint
- PrettyDiff
- ES6 Fiddle
- es5-shim
- es6-shim
- native-promise-only An ECMAScript standard promise polyfill by Kyle Simpson
- jQuery Yes, I still use jQuery and so do 61% of the top 100,000 websites - for good reason.
- Express The most popular framework for Node
- Credential If you write Node apps with password logins, you need Credential
- cuid GUIDs are broken - use cuid, instead
- velocity & Velocity Motion Designer (VMD) UI animation library
- ES Discuss The mailing list where all the ECMAScript standard discussion action is.
- JavaScript on Google+
- HTML5 on Google+
- Node.js on Google+
- IRC ##JavaScript irc://irc.freenode.net/javascript
- IRC #node.js irc://irc.freenode.net/node.js
- IRC #io.js irc://irc.freenode.net/io.js - the Node fork
- DemoJS The JavaScript demoscene party
- JS1k JavaScript domes in 1k of memory
- JS13k Games JavaScript games in 13k of memory
- FightCode game program virtual battle bots and climb the leaderboard
- Node Knockout The legendary Node competition
- 6to5 (ES6)
- CoffeeScript
- Emscripten (frequently used for C/C++ JavaScript ports)
- Traceur (ES.next)
- Addy Osmani
- Angus Croll Author, "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript"
- Axel Rauschmayer
- Brendan Eich (created JavaScript)
- Eric Elliott (That's me. O'Reilly author. JavaScript architect. JS Instructor.)
- Jafar Husain
- JavaScript Cheerleader (mover & shaker, JavaScript evangelist, documentary film maker)
- Jordan Harband Keeping us ahead of the JS curve
- Kyle Simpson (Author, YDKJS - O'Reilly, JS Instructor, open web evangelist)
- Nicholas C. Zakas
- Nick Morgan
- Paul Irish
- Reginald Braithwaite
- YDKJS (You Don't Know JS, O'Reilly book series by Kyle Simpson)