Which JavaScript books to buy?

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v-orlov2016-11-13 22:46:56

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v-orlov, 2016-11-13 22:46:56

Help me choose a book. My knowledge is at the junior level, I know the basics of js, for a couple of years I connected and edited a lot of jquery plugins and wrote small ones of my own, now I'm studying angularjs, but in general my knowledge is superficial. My English is colloquial, but technical literature is easier to perceive in the correct localization, so that I can operate with the same definitions with colleagues. I want to become a real front-end pro, but I can't stomach courses and e-books. Can you recommend books that can really raise the level?
Now I'm choosing from two, the first option: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide - David Flanagan ,
the second option: JavaScript: Patterns - Stoyan Stefanov
In the situation described above, which of the books is more suitable?
If you have your own js library, please write which books you bought and why, whether they lived up to expectations or not.

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Michael, 2016-11-13
@mak_ufo

Start with this.
It's just a cross between a documentation and a book.

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Dark Hole, 2016-11-13
@abyrkov

I would advise to buy Flanagan. He went through more or less well-known APIs in it.
Actually, I recommend learning Vanilla JS, because lately, native APIs have thrived. And the situation with frameworks and libs is even worse: not only does every JS specialist (not excluding me))) consider it his duty to make a modest contribution to the already rather large fund of libs and frames, they also rivet them with great speed. Here is the same Angular: they didn’t have time to rivet the second one, but they are already rolling the 3rd one. No, this is certainly not bad, but if you strive for "everything new" it's easy to get a bunch of unsupported shit code.
As for my library, it satisfies me completely:
Flanagan's Pocket Reference,
jQuery for the Pros by Adam Freeman (rather outdated, but complete) and
Learning jQuery by Earl Castledine and Craig Sharkey.

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xmoonlight, 2016-11-13
@xmoonlight

I want to become a real front-end pro, but I can't stomach courses and e-books. Can you recommend books that can really raise the level?

Learn from the official documentation. This is the best that anyone can advise you to achieve your goal.

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Alexey, 2016-11-14
@azovl

what's wrong with javascript.ru?
Everything is available and you do not need to buy anything

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Risent Veber, 2016-11-14
@risentveber

You Don't Know JS