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A book series on JavaScript

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Resurfaced independently across 7 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
10
submitters
10
observed span
2013–2025
peak thread · 105 comments
479 pts
latest 20+ return · 2016-06-25
479 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

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Just reading through the first few chapters of the book on the `this` keyword (which, as an aside, is shocking to see that the feature is so confusing that it merits its own entire book), the code snippets could use some serious attention. The variables are all `foo`, `bar`, `baz`, `a`, `obj`, etc. And the values are all just numbers. Sometimes they have a function that takes a value `a`, and they just do `this.a = a`. It requires a…

I've taken a training class from this guy before in San Francisco. He's pretty cool but he tries to push his own APIs pretty heavily which I found to be pretty annoying. Other than that it was good.

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
670

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Total comments
127

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2013-11-20"You Don't Know JS" (book series) drafts posted_getify100
2014-10-20“You Don't Know JS” Book SeriesFirst breakoutAllThingsSmitty17322
2016-04-18You don't know JSzkhalique10
2016-06-25A book series on JavaScriptBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnhitr479105
2018-06-19A book series on JavaScriptfebin10
2018-08-13You-Dont-Know-JSashwanidausodia10
2020-01-17A Book Series on JavaScriptgeek-advised10
2023-04-11You Don't Know JavaScript Yet (book series) – 2nd Editionsine_break20
2023-10-26You Don't Know JavaScript Yetudev409610
2025-03-17You-Dont-Know-JS: A book series on the JavaScript languageTomte10