October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
28h 11m
English
Content preview from Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 5th Edition
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FOREWORD
During nearly a decade at Amazon, I worked on a wide variety of projects including a petabyte-scale customer analytics cluster, an airport for drones, computer vision labeling tools, an open-source smart home specification, and even fitness watch firmware. None of these projects were inherently rooted in client-side web dynamism, but each of them had some facet that eventually involved JavaScript, either by necessity or by virtue of it being the best tool for the job.
Fifteen or even 10 years ago, a generalist software engineer with a career analogous to mine might have never had reason to learn JavaScript at more than a surface level, but today JavaScript has established itself as the lingua franca of the programming world. In 2022, JavaScript remained GitHub's most used language for the ninth year in a row, not even including Typescript contributions, which independently came in fourth.
React Native is exposing many career mobile developers to JavaScript, and Electron is doing the same for desktop applications. My work at Roboto exposes me to a number of robotics companies, and I can say with high confidence that there are even people out there building robots in Node. And of course, in the web development world, JavaScript is king.
JavaScript is not going anywhere, and as such it's a great investment for any software professional to become an expert practitioner and develop a deep understanding and intuition around the language. I've known Matt for close to two ...
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