You Don’t Know JS Yet: Get Started - 2nd Edition

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: What Is JavaScript?
    • About This Book
    • What’s With That Name?
    • Language Specification
    • Many Faces
    • Backwards & Forwards
    • What’s in an Interpretation?
    • Strictly Speaking
    • Defined
  • Chapter 2: Surveying JS
    • Each File is a Program
    • Values
    • Declaring and Using Variables
    • Functions
    • Comparisons
    • How We Organize in JS
    • The Rabbit Hole Deepens
  • Chapter 3: Digging To The Roots Of JS
    • Iteration
    • Closure
    • this Keyword
    • Prototypes
    • Asking “Why?”
  • Chapter 4: The Bigger Picture
    • Pillar 1: Scope and Closure
    • Pillar 2: Prototypes
    • Pillar 3: Types and Coercion
    • With the Grain
    • In Order
  • Appendix A: Exploring Further
    • Values vs. References
    • So Many Function Forms
    • Coercive Conditional Comparison
    • Prototypal “Classes”
  • Appendix B: Practice, Practice, Practice!
    • Practicing Comparisons
    • Practicing Closure
    • Practicing Prototypes
    • Suggested Solutions