Learn JavaScript

An open source list of paid & free resources to learn vanilla JavaScript.

Contents

• Books 📚
• Courses 🎒
• Evergreen resources 🌲
• Communities 💬
• News + regular content 📩

Notes

• This list is a companion resource to You SHOULD Learn Vanilla JavaScript Before JS Frameworks

• Feel free to fork this repo and add valuable resources to categories. All PRs will be manually reviewed.

• Paid resources are flagged "💰"

• If you're a complete beginner:

1. Learn the basics
2. Watch this 💰
3. Read this

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Books 📚

• Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke
• You Don't Know JS by Kyle Simpson
• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford 💰
• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan 💰
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja 💰
• Vanilla JavaScript Pocket Guides by Chris Ferdinandi 💰

Courses 🎒

• JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts by Anthony Alicea 💰
• Modern JavaScript From The Beginning by Brad Traversy 💰
• Introduction to JavaScript Programming by Kyle Simpson 💰
• The Creative Javascript Course by Dev Ed 💰
• JavaScript 30 by Wes Bos
• Practical JavaScript by Gordon Zhu
• Learn JavaScript ES6 by TheNetNinja
• Intro to JavaScript: Fundamentals of the JavaScript Syntax on Udacity
• Learn JavaScript: The Complete Guide on Envato Tuts+
• Introduction to JavaScript on freeCodeCamp
• Learn JavaScript: Arrays, Loops and Functions on Codecademy
• JavaScript Tutorials on Level Up Tutorials
• Modular Javascript by LearnCode.academy
• Beginning JavaScript on Treehouse 💰
• JavaScript Essential Training on Lynda 💰
• Vanilla JavaScript Academy by Chris Ferdinandi 💰
• Todo List App (TodoMVC) Complete Tutorial by @dwyl
• The 10 Days of JavaScript by LearnWebCode
• JavaScript Courses by Udemy 💰

Evergreen resources 🌲

• JavaScript - MDN
• Questions tagged "javascript" - Stack Overflow
• ECMAScript 6: Features
• ES6 - Wes Bos
• Modern JS Cheatsheet
• 30 seconds of code
• WTF JavaScript?
• You Might Not Need jQuery
• Learn JavaScript Collection - Codementor
• Vanilla JS Toolkit by Chris Ferdinandi
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
• Learn JavaScript Basics by Directing a Construction Site
• 33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know by Leonardo Maldonado

Noteworthy articles ✍️

• JavaScript fundamentals before learning React
• JavaScript Beginner? Start Here (Exercises Included)

Communities 💬

• JavaScript - The freeCodeCamp Forum
• FreeCodeCamp/HelpJavaScript - Gitter
• FreeCodeCamp/YouCanDoThis - Gitter
• r/learnwebdev
• Code Newbie - Slack
• Frontend Developers - Slack

News & regular content 📩

• Echo JS
• ECMAScript Daily
• r/javascript
• JavaScriptKicks
• Alligator.io
• Syntax.fm
• JavaScript Weekly
• Awesome JS on LibHunt
• Go Make Things
• Vanilla JS Podcast

Happy coding! 😊