I wanted to know what were the most recommended JS books ever. π
So I've compiled more than 800 recommendations from 75 lists and came up with this top 25 most recommended #JavaScipt books of all-time
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THREAD π
In short, I've compiled articles from Google search results for queries like "Best JavaScript books" and many of its variations
I scraped all pages using @ScrapingBeeand and extracted π titles
Then deduplication + normalization + βοΈ cleaning
A link to the detailed methodology will be put at the end of this thread.
% is the % of the time this book was recommended out of 75 lists.
So if % is 20%, one out of five lists about JavaScript book have talked about this book.
Ok, let's begin, here is the top 25 π€
25. JS & Jquery: The Missing Manual by D. Sawyer McFarland(7.9%) 24. Learn JS VISUALLY by I.Demirov (9.4%) 23. Learning JS Design Patterns by @addyosmani (11.3%) 22. Beginning JS and CSS Development with jQuery by Richard York (11.3%)
21. Learning JS by Ethan Brown (11.3%) 20. Human JS by @HenrikJoreteg (11.3%) 19. JS Programmer's Reference by @AlexeiRWhite (11.3%) 18. A Smarter Way to Learn JS by Mark Myers (11.3%) 17. Head First JS Programming by E.Freeman & E.Robson (11.3%)
11. Programming JS Applications by @_ericelliott (22.6%) 10. Speaking JS by @rauschma (22.6%) 9. Beginning JS by J.McPeak (24.5%) 8. The Principles of Object-Oriented JS by @slicknet (24.5%) 7. JS Patterns by @stoyanstefanov (26.4%)
6. JS and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development by Jon Duckett (30.2%) 5. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by @jeresig & @bear_bibeault & @jomaras (32.1%) 4. Effective JS by D. Herman (39.6%)
π₯. Eloquent JS by @MarijnJH (56.6%)
π₯. You Don't Know JS Book Series by Kyle Simpson (60.4%)
π₯. JS: The Definitive Guide by @__DavidFlanagan (66.0%)
Congrats to @rauschma who is the only author that appears two times on the list.
This list and the methodology has been published to my new data-based project: best-books.dev.
If you liked this list, more are coming soon π
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