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| Have you focused specifically on improving your JS skills at any time in the last year? | Which resources did you use to help you learn? | Of the resources you used, which kind was the MOST helpful? | Of the resources you used, which kind was the LEAST helpful? | During your learning, which areas have been particularly challenging? | What one resource would you recommend to someone trying to learn JS? | Why do you recommend it? | What one resource would you NOT recommend to someone trying to learn JS? | Why do you NOT recommend it? | Which technologies do you use in your current role? | How long have you been working professionally in web development? | How would you rate the improvement of your JS skills in the last year? | Have you gotten a new job, a promotion, or new responsibilities since improving your JS skills? | Do you consider yourself a minority in tech? | |
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| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Help from coworkers | Books | Debugging, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Video tutorials (short versions like on Egghead) | They solve individual problems which you can reference when stuck | Books | Books are a good way to get a wider understanding but not great for getting started. At least the one's I've read | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 3-5 years | 5 | No | Yes | |
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| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Online courses | Books | Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Egghead.io! (Full disclosure, I am doing some work for them) | The videos are short, informative, to-the-point, and a lot of them are free! | Node.js Design Patterns (book) | Personally I found the book very dry and inaccessible | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Online courses | Conferences | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Callbacks/async | HTML, CSS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 4 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Books, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Books | Conferences | Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of documentation | Codecademy | Organized lessons with coding and correction. | Angular, jQuery, any framework. | Learn the basics of JavaScript first. | Node, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Other online resources, MDN, github repos of interesting libraries | reading github repos | Help from friends | Debugging, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Choosing a framework | MDN | Thoroughness | large/popular frameworks | they hide the fundamentals and not always written in a comprehensible way (sometimes too clever or advanced) | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Other online resources | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | eloquent javascript | perfect topics and execution | none | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | No | ||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Books | Blogs | Callbacks/async | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | More than 10 years | 4 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Meetups | Meetups | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | http://www.2ality.com/ | Concise explanation of various new features. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Help from friends | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Lack of documentation, Integrating multiple frameworks | Find a mentor (Stack Overflow works in a pinch) | Having someone who can help your through problems you're having in your own code is hugely helpful. Oftentimes just trying to explain the problem to another person will help you reframe it in your mind in a helpful way. | Books/exercises | It's hard to connect with rote exercises from a book or tutorial, or to tie them back to a project you're actually working on. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 3 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Blogs | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Eloquent JS | Great introduction to the language | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 6 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Books | Blogs | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Coming up with tasks to try | Buy a good book | Fundamental learning | Stackexchange | Too opinionated better for specific syntax type issues | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources | Blogs | Books | Debugging, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | More than 10 years | 3 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Other online resources | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of documentation | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s), Erlang, Ruby | 1-3 years | 4 | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Books | Blogs | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.) | Build something simple | Learn by doing | Udemy | Course spam | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 5 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Blogs | Conferences | Prototypes and inheritance, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Modules, Coming up with tasks to try, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Code school (in person), Meetups, Conferences | Code school (in person) | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs | Blogs | Online courses | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework | Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 3 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs | Online courses | Meetups | Prototypes and inheritance, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | egghead.io | Great videos and instruction | CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 1-3 years | 3 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Other online resources, Books | Other online resources | Books | Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | Egghead.io | I enjoy the combination of live coding with real use examples. | Can't think of any. | NA | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS | 3-5 years | 6 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Books | Online courses | Understanding all the design patterns and its minimal differences | Free js books website | Because they are free and pretty good | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | I prefer not to say | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Meetups, Conferences | Books | Meetups | Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Callbacks/async, Promises | Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Meetups | Books | Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.), Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Promises | Meetups | Inspiration on direction to take | Books. | Too abstract | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 4 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Meetups, Conferences | Other online resources | Conferences | Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Callbacks/async | Egghead.io | Because they have really good and concise videos made by people who really know their stuff. | Books | Although there are a lot of them and some are good they usually get outdated quickly and there are pretty boring in general. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 6 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Books, Help from friends | Code school (in person) | Other online resources | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Callbacks/async, Promises | Eloquent JavaScript | Very info dense | Node documentation | Impenetrable to anyone new to programming | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS | I haven't yet! | 8 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Conferences | Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Lack of documentation, Promises | The book “Eloquent JavaScript” | It a thorough introduction into programming and specifically into functional programming in JavaScript | The ECMAScript spec, unfortunately | It got more complex with ES5 and ES6, so even for those who want to look “under the hood”, it’s almost inaccessible | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 6 | No | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | Other online resources | Help from coworkers | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 7 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Books, Help from friends, Meetups | Code school (in person) | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem | Front end masters online courses | Wide range of courses | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | Less than 1 year | 6 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers, ECMAScript specification | Help from friends | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Callbacks/async | YDKJS books | I like Kyle | W3Schools | They gloss over details and make sweeping generalizations. They're not terrible, but they're not great either. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 3-5 years | 8 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Help from coworkers | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of documentation | Help from a mentor | This remains the best way to learn whatever programming language | Blogs | Specific to JavaScript: everyone has his opinion, it can be hard to a newcomer to tell if it's worthy (on the other hand, with some experience, they are really helpful when you search for answers on specific problems) | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Other online resources | Blogs | Using ES6/ES2015 features, Coming up with tasks to try | MDN | Thoroughness | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 5 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs | Blogs | Meetups | Prototypes and inheritance, Choosing a framework, Promises | 3-5 years | 7 | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Conferences | Books | Online courses | Coming up with tasks to try | Maintainable JavaScript | Because is easy to read it | Frameworks | Because frameworks come and go all the time | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 3-5 years | 8 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Help from coworkers | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Blogs | Ability to focus on one issue, code examples, comments | books | not interactive enough, code examples are harder to do properly | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Online courses | Conferences | Prototypes and inheritance, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Callbacks/async, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 6 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources | youtube | Help from coworkers | Prototypes and inheritance, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Callbacks/async, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Other online resources | Online courses | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Promises | Codeschool.com | It's rad | Books | They're whack and expensive | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers | Help from friends | Books | Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Modules, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Meetups | Online courses | Meetups | Understanding how to apply things to the real world | Tony alicia udemy course | I'm not a fan of udemy in general, but Tony's courses are perfectly paced and very digestable | Random terrible youtube videos | Lots of them out there by people who have no idea how to teach | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 7 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Books | Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 6 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Code school (in person), Books, Meetups | Code school (in person) | Meetups | Debugging, DOM scripting, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.) | Eloquent JavaScript | Written for the lay person, and has exercises. | Meetups | They're great for community, but not for intense learning. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | Less than 1 year | 10 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Meetups, Conferences | Other online resources | Blogs | Using ES6/ES2015 features, Understanding how to approach a problem, Callbacks/async | MDN | Thorough documentation, examples, and support matrices | W3schools | They're shiesty | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, lots of experimenting | examples from stackoverflow.com, w3 schools | javascript documentation | Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.), Debugging | w3 schools | very basic, step by step, good depth of javascript fundamentals coverage | no response | not applicable | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Blogs | Other online resources | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Callbacks/async, Promises | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | 3-5 years | 4 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Other online resources | Blogs | Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Modules, Callbacks/async | "example ___ project" github repos | I think it's easier for a beginner to tinker with a working project than to write something completely from scratch. | talks or meetups | Talks/meetup presentations can move really quickly and usually cover niche topics, so I think they're a better resource for folks who already have some experience. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Debugging, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Promises | Codeschool.com | Videos plus coding exercises | Mdn | Not for beginners | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | Online courses | Other online resources | Syntax fundamentals, Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Prototypes and inheritance, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 5 | No | No | |||||
| No | ||||||||||||||
| Yes | Online courses, Other online resources, Books, Meetups | Other online resources | Help from coworkers | Browser differences, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Callbacks/async | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 1-3 years | 4 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Blogs | Help from friends | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Callbacks/async, Generators | Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | I haven't yet! | 5 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Conferences | Online courses | Blogs | Debugging, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Lack of documentation | You don't know Js | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 10 | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Meetups | Online courses | Meetups | Prototypes and inheritance, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Choosing a framework, Modules, Promises | Code schools javascript road trip course | Mixture of videos and exercises was more effective than reading books / articles. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | No | No | |||
| No | ||||||||||||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Blogs | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Dan Abramov's egghead.io tutorials on redux | Great for thinking of programming in a functional way, even if you dont use redux. He actually shows you how the library functions are implemented | codeschool etc | it's essentially answering a quiz when the answer is in front of you rather than writing a program. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |
| Yes | Online courses, Books | Online courses | Help from coworkers | Syntax fundamentals, Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Debugging, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Coming up with tasks to try | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | 1-3 years | 3 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | Egghead.io | Hard to qualify | Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem | egghead.io | Concise, modern. I would love something as good, but in bok from | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 4 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Help from friends | Blogs | Lack of documentation, Lack of accurate information | Conferences! (CascadiaFest) | Well curated talks, great community of inclusion, all around awesome people. | books | Javascript changes so quickly, most of the time the books are out of date with inaccurate ways of doing things. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Meetups, Conferences | Online courses | Meetups | Using ES6/ES2015 features, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | Code School | Casual attitude, short(ish) bits of info (about 5-7 minutes per video), and just very well done. | Honestly, I don't think I'd ever say this. There are things that don't work for me, but different people learn via different methods. If I have to pick one, meetups. | So - I have to imply meetups are bad, but if your goal is to learn, a meetup may not be focused on a technique to help you improve. I go to meetups more to be introduced to new tech and ideas, not necessarily for general improvement. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | More than 10 years | 5 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Books, Help from friends | Help from friends | Other online resources | Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | http://vanilla-js.com/ | Get the fundamentals without caring about the newest and hippest framework. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 3-5 years | 8 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Conferences | Blogs | Conferences | Prototypes and inheritance | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | Less than 1 year | 9 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Help from coworkers | Books | Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Promises | Pluralsight | It has a lot of videos (not all great, but a good resource still) | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | No | |||||
| No | ||||||||||||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Online courses | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.) | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Blogs | Other online resources | Prototypes and inheritance, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Wes Bos | Good teaching methods | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Meetups | Online courses | Online courses | Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Plural sight cources | Plethora of tutorials and screencasts | Books | I think the f you have an understanding of js or at least programming books may be helpful, but to someone new, the act of hearing someone walk through js seemed so much easier to comprehend. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 4 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Conferences, Code Katas | Code Katas | Blogs | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | 5-10 years | 9 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends | Documentation - I try to always read the manual. | Help from friends | Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Always read the documentation. | It gives you a lay of the land and let's you build out a mental model of what can exist, even if you don't fully understand most of it. | Asking questions via Twitter. | Asking questions on Twitter is fun, and can be good for your social networking and general sense of connectedness to people. But, it's not a great medium for technical conversations, especially those that center around the philosophy of choices and approaches.... at least not in my experience. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s), Graphics programs (Fireworks) | More than 10 years | 4 | No | No | |
| No | ||||||||||||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Books | Blogs | Browser differences, Modules, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | eloquentjavascript | It is really awesome learning javascript from this book. | Don't read blog posts from everywhere, they can be misleading. Moreover you may left potentially important stuff. | Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 1-3 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Online courses | Help from coworkers | Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 4 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Blogs | Other online resources | Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Meetups | Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Promises | Node, Client-side JS | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Blogs | Prototypes and inheritance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 3-5 years | 5 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Blogs | Other online resources | Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.), Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Choosing a framework | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 3 | No | I prefer not to say | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources | Online courses | Other online resources | Syntax fundamentals, Prototypes and inheritance, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, everyone's definition of 'beginners' is completely different. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 3 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Poorly written Documentation (esp: Flux related)! | Choosing a framework, Lack of documentation, Promises | Code School or another online resource | It is exceptionally well written. | Blogs | Too opinionated; Opinions seem to vary too much, change too frequently | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s), grunt, transitioning to gulp | 5-10 years | 6 | No | I prefer not to say | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Blogs | Other online resources | Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Promises | Understanding ES6 by Nick Zackas | I think it's the best resource for learning the new syntax. Has practical examples. | The spec. | It's written for engine designers, not JS devs. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Other online resources | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 7 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers | Books | Other online resources | Using ES6/ES2015 features, Lack of documentation | www.youdontknowjs.com | This series of books leads to a deep understanding of internal mechanism of JavaScript. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 6 | No | I prefer not to say | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from coworkers | Blogs | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | egghead.io | Excellent in-depth tutorials by high quality trainers. | Outdated hard cover books. | self explanatory | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | No | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Blogs | Books | Using ES6/ES2015 features, Modules, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Meetups | Books | Online courses | Lack of documentation | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Conferences | Other online resources | Blogs | Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Promises | http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ | Because a lot of people don't know about it, but it has very in depth articles. | MSDN | Microsoft's documentation often leads people in circles to outdated material. | HTML, Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 4 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, twitter and github and personal experiements | experiements | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Modules | experiment without care of failure every day | it's how I've learned and continue to learn | old blogs, enterprise Java/C# shops | old blogs are out of date, and enterprise Java/C# don't do front-end dev | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Meetups, Conferences | Books | Online courses | Coming up with tasks to try | https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS | Best concepts explained in a simple way | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 8 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Meetups | Online courses | Meetups | Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of mentoring/guidance | JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development by Jon Duckett | Simple, yet comprehensive. Fantastic for visual learners. Numerous examples. | Eduonix courses on Udemy | Project-based instruction is wonderful. However, their primary instructor rarely explains the reasoning behind his approaches, techniques or patterns. This leads the newbie down the uber-unproductive path of simply copying code. | None of the above | I haven't yet! | 7 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Help from coworkers | Conferences | Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | Being supported in your role at work | Nothing beats having someone patient to help you solve the problems you have and give you guidance for how to research your issues. | Conferences | Conference talks can have extremely misled information unless the speaker really is an expert. Some people build talks on one experience and it doesn't translate beyond it. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Other online resources | Online courses | Browser differences, Lack of documentation | MDN (for improving) | Concise information and enough data for almost all methods/keywords etc. that you can easily search further as required | None | n/a | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | No | |
| Yes | Books, Codewars.com and your JS assessment | Books | Codewars.com | Choosing a framework, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Promises | Nicholas Zakas books | Goes in-depth about how JS features can be used and explains well for someone who has some experience in programming | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, PHP/Symfony | I haven't yet! | 7 | No | I prefer not to say | |||
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| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Meetups | Coming up with tasks to try | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 8 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Books | Code school (in person) | Online courses | Lack of mentoring/guidance, Promises, Anything more than "basic" examples | http://jsbooks.revolunet.com/ | It has a wide variety of books for beginners which suit different "types" of people. | 1: w3schools.com & 2: www.ecmascript.org/ | 1: I'm a snob. 2: Don't want to put them off. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s), Ansible / Docker | More than 10 years | 6 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Online courses | Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try | Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Conferences | Books | Blogs | Using ES6/ES2015 features, Promises | You don't know js | It's good | Js documentation | It's rubbish | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Books, Meetups | Online courses | Other online resources | Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.), Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Lack of mentoring/guidance | Freecodecamp | Community | Stack overflow | Too much complicated | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | 1-3 years | 7 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Blogs | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of mentoring/guidance | codeschool.com | - interactive repl lets you dive into code right away - introduction course is pretty fun - there are videos for beginner and intermediate developers - there's also accompanying html/css courses | don't know | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | More than 10 years | 6 | Yes | No | ||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers | Blogs | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Lack of documentation | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 1-3 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Blogs | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Coming up with tasks to try | https://github.com/ericelliott/essential-javascript-links | It's and awesome starting point. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Books | Blogs | Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Choosing a framework, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation | Get your fundamentals right, then start doing stuff | Because I have the feeling JS is being done by the hipster-kiddo's, who are quick in tooling, but lack fundamental knowledge of programming and architecture. A framework is nice to have, but the world needs proper solutions, not new frameworks. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 3 | No | No | |||
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| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Blogs | Online courses | Choosing a framework, Lack of documentation | Stackoverflow | If its not on stackoverflow, you're doing it wrong | Codeschool | Useful to get a basic grasp, but often teaches wrong best practices and there a fee alternatives | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 1-3 years | 9 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Online courses | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | Codecademy | It is free and will give them an idea of what js is about. | Franeworks | Before you get started with frameworks learn the language | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | Less than 1 year | 6 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Other online resources | Books | Prototypes and inheritance | JavaScriptIsSexy.com website. | Simple explanation of complex topics. | Books by any super star authors including John Resig or Nicholas Zakas | They are mostly dogma and prejudice. | Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Online courses | Conferences | Choosing a framework, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | YDKJS book series | Concise and clear explanation. Explains the why behind JS concepts | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Meetups | Blogs | Meetups | Prototypes and inheritance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Meetups | Online courses | Meetups | Using ES6/ES2015 features, Choosing a framework, Modules, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Udacity | Really great explanations with examples to practice and solutions. Not too low level - can learn something more advanced. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | I haven't yet! | 9 | No | Yes | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Conferences | Other online resources | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Modules, Coming up with tasks to try | Can't recommend just one! | n/a | Can't say | n/a | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Meetups, Conferences | Online courses | Blogs | Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Lack of mentoring/guidance | Codeschool | Interactive, live coding | ? | ? | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Other online resources | Syntax fundamentals, Browser differences, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 4 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Code school (in person), Books | Books | Code school (in person) | Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Ullman's Modern Javascript & a mentor | Easy to understand and apply | UNM Continuing Education classes | Instructor was NOT prepared and not very good at explaining. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Meetups, The Node documentation itself; a lot of the Stream stuff is pretty extensive, for example. | Other online resources | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of documentation, Callbacks/async, Streams. Definitely Streams. | "You Don't Know JS" (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS), starting from "Up & Going" | It starts from scratch, is careful, deliberate and very thorough. | w3schools | Sometimes wrong, but always at the top of the google results. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 4 | No | No | |
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| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Blogs | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of documentation | Google for "Kyle Simpson Javascript" | He has every type of education available, teaches core concepts really well, most of his best resources are free, and he engages his community directly | Ember.js | It isn't javascript, it's a classical OO in disguise, and reinforces bad techniques, keeps those in the dark... in the dark. | Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s), Docker, Vagrant | More than 10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | Online courses | Other online resources | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Callbacks/async | Egghead | Short form, good devs | Don't remember name | Design from 99 to prevent download | HTML, CSS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |
| Yes | Online courses, Books, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Help from coworkers | Meetups | Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Debugging, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | A mentor | It helped the most to not only see how to do something but be able to ask questions immediately. | NA | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 5 | No | No | ||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from friends, Meetups, Conferences | Online courses | Books | Using ES6/ES2015 features, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Callbacks/async | HTML, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Blogs | Books | Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Unit testing non-trivial things with lots of dependencies. | http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial.html | I recommend not for beginner *programmers*, but beginners to modern JS. It reminds me of the Rails Tutorial c.2011. It goes wide, not deep: it brings in a LOT of outside stuff not considered "fundamental" to JS. It is realistic. It uses TDD. It doesn't gloss over important things for pedagogical reasons. It doesn't have the "draw the owl" problem. It holds your hand, but it doesn't shield your eyes. | Codecademy or anything of the sort | People don't learn programming by doing cute little exercises in their browser. They learn it by writing programs. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Meetups | Online courses | Meetups | Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Callbacks/async, Promises, Architecture | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 1 | No | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Blogs | Help from coworkers | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Lack of mentoring/guidance, Promises | Javascript: The good parts | It's a good starting point to start taking the language seriously | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||
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| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Blogs | Help from coworkers | Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of documentation | Mdn | It's the one place all JS documentation reside | Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers | Blogs | Books | Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Really depends on which area of JS... but generally speaking, Stackoverflow or MDN | Stackoverflow because you get specific answers to specific questions, you also get experience with being part of a community. MDN because they're really good at providing specifications and much easier to read than w3c. I've noticed that MDN's documentation is starting to become outdated. Good thing is that users can submit fixes. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 3-5 years | 6 | No | Yes | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Books | Online courses | Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Blog posts/books written by Eric Elliott or Kyle Simpson | They go very in depth and are easy to understand. | Online courses (non-beginners) | For someone who is not a beginner in JS, online courses don't seem to have much value. I haven't found many good ones that aren't geared towards beginners. | Node, Client-side JS, AS3 | I haven't yet! | 7 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Other online resources, Books, Meetups | Online courses | Books | Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance, jargon and vocabulary used by experienced professionals makes it hard to understand what is expected of me, what is being described, and/or how to make an analogy to make it make sense? i believe some experts are unaware. | i prefer a three headed monster, online-course approach | i was going form tutorial to tutorial and while i understood the basics, wasn't getting very far. soon enough, i had a system in place learning from three different resources, the same topic, at the same time. the different courses and site curriculum really helped get me up to speed, IMO | book(s) | they're bulky, difficult to read and copy char for char. plus, if they suck you're stuck w/ it and having to have paid for it. some are out of date, etc., etc. there's some really good ones, but its just plain hard to learn from a programming book - although, it can be done. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | 1-3 years | 10 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | Other online resources | Meetups | Browser differences, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Choosing a framework, Lack of mentoring/guidance | codewars.com | It helps you practice Javascript, and by looking at others' solutions you can see how to improve your own solution next time. | None | Can't think of anything... | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Angular | 3-5 years | 7 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Conferences, Trial/error | Trial/error | Conferences | Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | Typescript | It's ES6 syntax while converting to ES5, so ready to use everywhere. | Blog examples | It's interesting but never touches a solution to a real problem | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 6 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation | Find someone better than you who's willing to answer your questions. | It's often hard to articulate what you're struggling with, talking it out with someone can make it clear. | CSS, Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 9 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers | Online courses | Help from coworkers | Browser differences, Lack of documentation | Your baseline for front-end developers blog post | Fairly exhaustive, still gives high level overview. I'd recommend pluralsight/online courses for specifics. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers, Looking at code at work. OSS | Books | Help from coworkers | Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Other online resources, Books | Books | Other online resources | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Modules | Programming JavaScript Applications | This was the most helpful overall this year, put things in good perspective. | Haven't read enough to answer this yet | Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | Yes | ||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Other online resources | Conferences | Tooling and ecosystem when approaching a new framework (e.g. React) | MDN | It is (usually) correct | W3cschools | It is usually incorrect and obsolete | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs | Blogs | Online courses | Prototypes and inheritance, Debugging, Understanding how to approach a problem, Promises, iterating through a list of items with async processing on each item | nodejitsu | blog posts are concise and cover one issue decently enough to get up and running | Ember.js | Framework is broken by design, no progressive enhancement. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 7 | No | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Blogs | Debugging, DOM scripting, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Lots of smart people post blogs | Client-side JS | Less than 1 year | 6 | No | No | ||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, I made a harp site and some alias' that lets me make a new website really easily to have a new playground to learn on. | Help from coworkers | Online courses | Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript book, and making 100 websites | I think the repetitious projects in ASWtLJS along with breaking each data structure / thing to learn into a microscopic concept was helpful. But beyond language basics it doesn't help learn like what Backbone does. Or why people are freaking out about Angular 2 and React in both positive and negative ways. | Blindly taking courses. Paying gobs of money to people to maybe not learn the language completely. | As mentioned above, it doesn't apply to anything that an employer would stress beyond language fundamentals. | HTML, CSS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 1-3 years | 5 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Help from friends while working/debugging work and personal projects | Online courses | Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.), Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Modules, Callbacks/async | Doing JavaScript code practice problems with tests (like Exercism) | You can isolate specific functions and patterns you want to try out. | Frameworks and framework-driven tutorials. | Way too much to learn at once. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s), Ruby on Rails, React | 1-3 years | 5 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Meetups, Conferences | Conferences | bah | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of documentation | Mentoring | Its the quickest shortcut | Everything that is NOT based on ES6 exclusively | Learning about historical artefacts should not be a priority in the start | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Conferences | Other online resources | Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.), Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of documentation | "You Don't Know JS" by @getify | It's a good read that covers fundamentals really well | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 8 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs | Online courses | Help from coworkers | Syntax fundamentals, Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.), Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features | Egghead.io | Succinct | W3schools | It's crap | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | Less than 1 year | 6 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Conferences | Books | Code school (in person) | Callbacks/async, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node | 1-3 years | 4 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Pluralsight | Books | Blogs | Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | books (in particular the 'you don't know js' series and pluralsight | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | Yes | No | ||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Meetups | Other online resources | Meetups | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Which camp to listen to. (Different opinions.) | https://medium.com/javascript-scene/learn-javascript-b631a4af11f2#.eggx1njcg | Eric Elliot (while occasionally problematic) has been very prolific in writing and collecting JS resources. Also, he has a lot of experience and his work (blogs and book) taught me more about the benefits of prototypical OO over classical OO (for ore advanced stuff). | Can't think of any one place off hand besides... | Getting stuck into wars about frameworks, libraries, toolchain, etc. It is hard but just picking one tool (which ever it is) and going with it and learning how it works will help inform you own opinions and give you insight into others. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |
| Yes | Online courses, Books, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Promises | http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial.html | Comprehensive redux/react tutorial - full stack | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS | Less than 1 year | 4 | No | Yes | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Books | Other online resources | Prototypes and inheritance, Modules, Understanding how to approach a problem, Promises | http://eloquentjavascript.net/ | It's good... | http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do | Its's recomended for start, but I think is better have some background | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | Less than 1 year | 8 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Online courses | Meetups | Choosing a framework, Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of documentation | Egghead.io | Shirt videos but informative | W3 schools | It's crap | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 5 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Code school (in person), Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Code school (in person) | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem | Enspiral Dev Academy Wellington NZ | It was a fantastic school! | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | Less than 1 year | 10 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Meetups, Conferences | Failure | Blogs | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 6 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Meetups | Other online resources | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS | 1-3 years | 8 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources | Online courses | Other online resources | Browser differences, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Callbacks/async, Promises | MDN | It it a great language reference. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | I haven't yet! | 3 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Meetups | Prototypes and inheritance, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Callbacks/async, Promises | Online courses | When they're well done, good breakdown of material and opportunities for practice | Meetups | Topics not as described or not applicable to my problems; not that useful for networking either | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Books | Online courses | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of mentoring/guidance | Stack Overflow | Wealth of experience | Not sure | None. No role | I haven't yet! | 5 | No | No | ||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Other online resources | Blogs | Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.), Debugging, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | codewars | helps apply what you have learned through books/tutorials to real problems and helps bring together how a language can really work. | blogs | there are a lot of blogs that don't have the correct information , you may have wasted time trying to comprehend something that is irrelevant and end up more confused than when you started. If you do use blogs you need to be sure they are from a person who is reputable and experienced. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | 1-3 years | 5 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources | Other online resources | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | Less than 1 year | 8 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Books | Other online resources | Lack of documentation | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 5-10 years | 6 | No | I prefer not to say | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Meetups | Online courses | Conferences | Prototypes and inheritance, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Promises | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 8 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Stack Overflow | Help from coworkers | Other online resources | Prototypes and inheritance, Debugging, Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 9 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Help from coworkers, code reviews | Blogs | Other online resources | Debugging, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Modules, Lack of documentation, Callbacks/async | codecademy.com | A great entry point and process for getting feet wet with | Any specific framework documentation | So the person could begin with development and JS fundamentals before exploring frameworks | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | No | |
| Yes | Other online resources | Other online resources | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of mentoring/guidance, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 4 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Conferences | Blogs | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.) | Egghead videos | They're good, shrug | old books | probably janky | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 3 | No | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Other online resources | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | http://eloquentjavascript.net/ | It covers JS as a programming language, not so much as a "Here's how you handle events in a browser". | http://www.javascriptenlightenment.com/ | It's incredibly dated, not maintained at all, and even at its release point, it had some inaccuracies and gross simplifications | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 3 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Documentation | Documentation | Other online resources | Browser differences, Coming up with tasks to try | Mozilla Developer Network | Up to date, good docs, good website | W3Schools | w3fools | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 5 | No | I prefer not to say | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Blogs | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, DOM scripting, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Callbacks/async, Promises | Stack Overflow search | Because so many of your questions are the exact questions that have already been answered | Meetups | I've never found one that didn't intimidate me while learning, many JS topics were a little too advanced for me | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 6 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Meetups | Other online resources | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Lack of documentation | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | No | No | |||||
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| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Blogs | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | codepen | easy to see what is happening as your write | w3schools | not reliable documentation, appears high in search | HTML, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 6 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Code school (in person), Books, Help from coworkers | Code school (in person) | Books | Debugging, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | Less than 1 year | 10 | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Help from friends | Help from coworkers | Debugging, Browser differences, Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 6 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Other online resources | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Video series on egghead.io | The chapters in series are often short and focused, which means someone new won't have to learn too much at once | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | I prefer not to say | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Blogs | Other online resources | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.) | Blogs on how to do `x` with `listOfLibsIAccidentallyChose` | I already know how to program but getting the "big picture" on how to configure & get everything that isn't the code working is really hard to do with the choice available. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | Less than 1 year | 7 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books | Online courses | Books | Debugging, Callbacks/async, Promises | Online courses where you can work at your own pace | Being able to rewatch videos is huge in helping someone to grasp a new concept. | Conferences | It's an expensive way to get started! Unless someone else is footing your bill, start smaller. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 10 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Blogs | Meetups | Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Prototypes and inheritance, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | ydkjs | it's good. | google search resulting stack overflow answers. answer with the top vote.... | if you don't know how to do something, that google search probably is leading you to a very wrong answer. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s), js build tools, package stuff | 5-10 years | 7 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Books | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Lack of documentation | http://rauschma.de/ | Axel knows JS by heart and is great at explaining concepts and syntax | HTML, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 7 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Other online resources, Conferences | Online courses | Other online resources | Promises | Frontend Masters | Affordable and very very deep content | Stack Overflow | Q&A is the bucket of fish; I'd rather have the pole | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 7 | No | No | |
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| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Blogs | Blogs | Browser differences, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of documentation | eloquent javascript | easily approachable escalation of ideas and syntax | documentation. | It's usually not approachable by people new to the language | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers | Blogs | Conferences | Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of documentation | The Good Parts | It's a relatively quick overview of the language and what you should avoid | Conferences | They're great for discovering new things but tend to lack the depth that other mediums can offer | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 1-3 years | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Conferences | Other online resources | Blogs | Prototypes and inheritance, Choosing a framework, Modules | Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) | Thoroughness and good examples. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 6 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Other online resources | Online courses | Prototypes and inheritance, Debugging, Modules, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Callbacks/async | Get a mentor | Because when I've had one I've done well, when I haven't I've stagnated. | Guitar magazines | No JS in 'em | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 3 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Books | Conferences | Debugging, DOM scripting, Coming up with tasks to try, Callbacks/async, Promises | egghead.io | Clear, concise lessons | Learning JavaScript by Shelley Powers | Factual errors | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 10 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Conferences | Online courses | Other online resources | Choosing a framework, Modules, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of mentoring/guidance, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 7 | No | No | |||||
| No | ||||||||||||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, open source code repo's | open source code repo's | Help from friends | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Javascript: The Good Parts | If you can only have one resource, take the one that at least tells you what you NEED to know | random blogs | There is so much assumed knowledge when following someone else's tutorial. Build tooling, package management, general module architecture. If you don't have any knowledge of any of this it gets overwhelming fast. Plus you're not really learning anything from it you're just following a recipe. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s), Objective-C (iOS), Java (android) | 1-3 years | 8 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Meetups | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | Online Courses | For the most part I feel like online courses are very useful for people just learning | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 3-5 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Other online resources, Books | Other online resources | Meetups | Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | MDN | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 10 | No | No | ||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Promises | w3schools | Shallow explaining and contrived examples | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, documentation | documentation | Help from coworkers | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of documentation, Callbacks/async | HTML, CSS, Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 6 | No | I prefer not to say | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources | Other online resources | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS | More than 10 years | 7 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Other online resources | Conferences | Syntax fundamentals, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of documentation | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | More than 10 years | 9 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Other online resources | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Understanding how to approach a problem, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 3-5 years | 3 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | Blogs | Books | Prototypes and inheritance, Debugging | JS-people | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | No | ||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Books | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of documentation | Book | You can learn at your own pace | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers | Online courses | Help from coworkers | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 9 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Other online resources | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to apply things to the real world | MDN | Clear and comprehensive | Blogs | Usually out of date | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Meetups, Conferences, videos | videos | Other online resources | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), generators | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Help from friends | Prototypes and inheritance, Debugging, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Promises | Conferences & meetups | Networking/watching conferences is fundamental, it keeps you curious and willing to learn something you didn't know about, every time. Plus, you may meet a bunch of new different people with different backgrounds/culture! | Stackoverflow | it may get very opinionated without any reason but " faith" wars | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Conferences | Blogs | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Books | Conferences | Choosing a framework, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Websites with sample problems, like CodeWars | Other online resources | Blogs | Debugging, DOM scripting, Browser differences | CodeWars.com | Lots of sample problems of varying difficulty and focus | w3schools | Not official, has had problems in the past, basically a worse MDN | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 8 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Other online resources | Blogs | Browser differences, Choosing a framework, Lack of documentation | stackoverflow | Usually your question has been asked already. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 8 | No | No | |||
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| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from friends | Online courses | Other online resources | Prototypes and inheritance, Debugging, Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of documentation | lynda.com | dedicated approaches for different skill levels | stack overflow | too uneven | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | They all kind of suck | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Take an in person course | You can ask questions when stuff breaks | Reference documents | Too complex, no context. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 1 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Code school (in person), Books, Help from friends, Meetups, Conferences | Help from friends | Books | Programming fundamentals (conditionals, loops, etc.), Prototypes and inheritance, Understanding how to approach a problem, Callbacks/async, Promises | devdocs.io | everything is one place, and it's available offline. Thus, even with shitty internet, you can always check up on something. | Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 9 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Conferences | Online courses | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Modules, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | egghead / other online courses | bite-sized, really approachable | books | they tend to fix you on particular code, and not way of thinking | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 5 | No | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers | Other online resources | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs | Online courses | Help from coworkers | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features | Eloquent js book | I read it long ago but still I think about stuff from it every day | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Couchdb, pouchdb | 3-5 years | 6 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Help from coworkers | Online courses | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Callbacks/async, Promises | Eloquent JavaScript | Fun & accessible | Online tools like codecademy | Too easy to get stuck and too hard to get help | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 8 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Online courses | Meetups | Coming up with tasks to try, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Conferences | Books | Conferences | Debugging, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Lack of documentation | Node | 5-10 years | 9 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Online courses | Choosing a framework, Lack of documentation, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Blogs | More insights and detailed | Code school | Only for beginners haven't done programming before | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 3-5 years | 10 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers | Online courses | Code school (in person) | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Modules, Callbacks/async, Promises | Mozilla Developer Netword | Updated | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers | Help from coworkers | Blogs | Debugging, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Insane churn in the JS world. | Hacker News | Because as a group they seem to only be interested in new shiny things and not mature well-documented things. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 6 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Online courses | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Modules, Lack of mentoring/guidance | Egghead.io | Fresh, concise, relevant videos that teach a topic enough to get you to explore & try things on your own. | Physical Books | The technical nature of books becomes outdated so quickly that by the time you read it, the techniques within are probably usurped by something else & you'll already be behind. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Blogs | Other online resources | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Understanding how to apply things to the real world | Frontendmasters.com | Excellent instructors up to date content | Meetups | They are more about exposure than in depth learning | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 5-10 years | 8 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Meetups, Conferences | Help from friends | Blogs | Debugging, Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.) | Friends | They know. | Blogs | So error prone because of litle accountability and outdated quickly | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 1-3 years | 5 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Meetups, Podcasts | Blogs | Meetups | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Modules | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Help from friends, Meetups, Conferences | Blogs | Online courses | Lack of documentation | Mdn | Its exhaustive | W3schools | Its wrong | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 9 | No | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Books, Help from friends | Other online resources | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try, Promises | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 4 | Yes | No | |||||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Code school (in person), Books, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Help from coworkers | Online courses | Debugging, Coming up with tasks to try, Understanding how to apply things to the real world, Callbacks/async | Having a job thay uses it | I always really struggled with JS until I had a job where I had to use it. I know that's not true for everyone but it was a big hurdle for me. | The internet. | There's a reason JS is referred to as the wild west and that's lack of standards which means there is a lot of misleading info out there | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 8 | No | Yes | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources | Other online resources | Blogs | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Promises | Code wars | You can compare your code to others | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||
| No | ||||||||||||||
| Yes | Blogs, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Blogs | Conferences | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Package management (bower, npm, etc.) | jsfiddle | you need to try things and learn by doing | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Help from coworkers, Study code bases | Books | Help from coworkers | Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Coming up with tasks to try | Patience is a resource.. | It takes time and commitment, regardless of chosen learning method. | Experienced coworkers/friends | They have forgotten how it is to not know and might steer you in an unnecessarily complicated direction. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 10 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers | Online courses | Conferences | Prototypes and inheritance, Browser differences | babel website | Great introduction to ES6 | Random blogs! | You never know if it is correct or not. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 9 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Other online resources, Books, Help from friends, Meetups | Conferences | Online courses | Promises | Find reliable blog | Blogs can be very resourceful and can point you to books, other blogs, courses, conferences. People blog on informal, easy language, easier to understand than books. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS | 1-3 years | 6 | No | Yes | |||
| No | ||||||||||||||
| Yes | Blogs, Books, Conferences | Books | Online courses | Get familiar with abstraction like `Event Loop` | codeeval.com | It's easy, good to introduction. （but deep understanding is not obtained） | Join cunfference | It is useful to collect the information, but it does not lead to learning. | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 3-5 years | 7 | Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Other online resources | Blogs | Browser differences, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Choosing a framework, Understanding how to approach a problem, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | google search | answers everything | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 1-3 years | 7 | No | I prefer not to say | |||
| Yes | Online courses, Blogs, Other online resources | Other online resources | Blogs | DOM scripting, Browser differences, Using ES6/ES2015 features, Choosing a framework, Understanding how to apply things to the real world | superherojs.com | Some stufd i just understood after read there and nowhere else | w3schools.com | It is poor and superfitial | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Books | Other online resources | Books | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features, Modules, Callbacks/async, Promises | MDN | helpful | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) | 1-3 years | 7 | No | I prefer not to say | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources | Blogs | Blogs | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.) | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 5 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs | Books | Online courses | Data structures (arrays, objects, etc.) | HTML, CSS, Node, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | Less than 1 year | 6 | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from friends, Help from coworkers, Meetups | Help from coworkers | Meetups | Prototypes and inheritance, Debugging, Package management (bower, npm, etc.), Choosing a framework, Lack of community consensus on how to solve a problem | Don't | Because Javascript is a hateful language built on inconsistency and half-hearted solutions. | Meetups | Everyone just spends the whole time gushing about Yet Another Framework that only solves 20% of your problem. | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s), Other server-side language(s) | More than 10 years | 5 | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Online courses, Other online resources, Books, Help from coworkers | Books | Online courses | DOM scripting, Lack of documentation | Client-side JS | Less than 1 year | 7 | No | No | |||||
| Yes | Blogs, Other online resources, Help from coworkers, Conferences | Blogs | Conferences | Prototypes and inheritance, Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Promises | Mozilla Developer Network | Best reference | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, JS transpiler(s) (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.), Other server-side language(s) | 5-10 years | 8 | No | No | |||
| Yes | Blogs, Books | Books | Online courses | Build tooling (grunt, gulp, webpack, browserify, etc.), Using ES6/ES2015 features | http://www.2ality.com/ | HTML, CSS, Client-side JS, CSS preprocessor(s) | 1-3 years | 3 | No | No |
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