Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja 1st Edition

by John Resig (Author), Bear Bibeault (Author)

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Secrets of the Javascript Ninja takes you on a journey towards mastering modern JavaScript development in three phases: design, construction, and maintenance. Written for JavaScript developers with intermediate-level skills, this book will give you the knowledge you need to create a cross-browser JavaScript library from the ground up.

About this Book

You can't always attack software head-on. Sometimes youcome at it sideways or sneak up from behind. You need tomaster an arsenal of tools and know every stealthy trick.You have to be a ninja.

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja leads you down the pathway toJavaScript enlightenment. This unique book starts with keyconcepts, like the relationships between functions, objects, andclosures, taught from the master's perspective. You'll grow fromapprentice to ninja as you soak up fresh insights on the techniquesyou use every day and discover features and capabilities you neverknew about. When you reach the final chapters, you'll be ready tocode brilliant JavaScript applications and maybe even write yourown libraries and frameworks.

You don't have to be a ninja to read this book—just be willing tobecome one. Are you ready?

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What's Inside

Functions, objects, closures, regular expressions, and more
Seeing applications and libraries from the right perspective
Dealing with the complexities of cross-browser development
Modern JavaScript design

About the Authors

John Resig is an acknowledged JavaScript authority and the creatorof the jQuery library. Bear Bibeault is a web developer and coauthorof Ajax in Practice, Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action, and jQueryin Action from Manning.

Table of Contents

PART 1 PREPARING FOR TRAINING

Enter the ninja
Arming with testing and debugging

PART 2 APPRENTICE TRAINING

Functions are fundamental
Wielding functions
Closing in on closures
Object-orientation with prototypes
Wrangling regular expressions
Taming threads and timers

PART 3 NINJA TRAINING

Ninja alchemy: runtime code evaluation
With statements
Developing cross-browser strategies
Cutting through attributes, properties, and CSS

PART 4 MASTER TRAINING

Surviving events
Manipulating the DOM
CSS selector engines

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About the Author

John Resig is the Dean of Open Source and head of JavaScript development at Khan Academy and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He's also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.

Bear Bibeault has been working in the area of web applications since the mid-nineties, getting started with beta versions of JSP and Servlets. He is a senior moderator at the popular JavaRanch site, and has contributed articles to the JavaRanch Journal as well as Dr Dobb's Journal online. He is a co-author of several Manning books including Ajax in Practice, Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action, jQuery in Action, and jQuery in Action, Second Edition. He works and resides in Austin, Texas.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; 1st edition (January 17, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 193398869X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933988696
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.7 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #326,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #126 in JavaScript Programming (Books)
- #135 in Java Programming
- #202 in Object-Oriented Design

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John Resig
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John Resig is the Dean of Open Source and head of JavaScript development at Khan Academy and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He’s also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.
Currently, John is located in Boston, MA. He’s hard at work on his second book, Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja.
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Bear Bibeault
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Bear Bibeault has been writing software for over three decades, starting with a Tic-Tac-Toe program written on a Control Data Cyber supercomputer via a 100-baud teletype. Because he has two degrees in Electrical Engineering, Bear should be probably designing antennas or something like that, but since his first job with Digital Equipment Corporation, he has always been much more fascinated with programming.
Bear has also served stints with companies such as Dragon Systems, Works.com, Logitech, and even served in the U. S. Military teaching infantry soldiers how to blow things up; the latter teaching him skills crucial for working in Agile software teams.
Bear is currently a front-end developer for the Washington Post.
In addition to his day job, Bear also writes books (who knew?), runs a small business that creates web applications and offers other media services (but not wedding videography, never wedding videography), and helps to moderate CodeRanch.com as a "marshal" (senior moderator).
When not planted in front of a computer, Bear likes to cook big food (which accounts for his jeans size), dabble in photography and video editing, ride his Yamaha V-Star, and wear tropical print shirts.
He works and resides in Austin, TX.
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Igor

Explaning why JavaScript is functional language

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2014

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This book is heavily concentrated on explaining why JavaScript is a functional programming language and how that can be used by the developer. The half of the book is dedicated to JavaScript functions, there is everything you will need to know about JavaScript functions: anonymous functions, recursions, inline named function ans so on.

The other half of the book explains everything that you will need to develop well structured JavaScript code.

The only remark I have for this book is about the 'Regular Expressions' chapter, in my opinion it is not written very clear and can be confusing, but it is fer to say that the authors are suggesting additional literature for getting familiar with regular expressions.

Big plus is that all the source code form the book examples is very well structured and packed in zip file that enables you to quickly try the examples on computer.

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Just another guy in IT

Awesome book!

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2013

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I am still reading the book and I have to say that so far I have enjoyed it. Even for a relatively new javascript programmer, this book is excellent in catching concepts that are ignored in most other web development books, primarily because it considers JS as a full fledge language which is the correct approach to explain javascript. That being said, a mastery of any object oriented programming language such as Java definitely helps to grasp the concepts explained in this book.

Its a good buy, and I highly recommend it. Appreciate the author's sense of humor every once in a while - its like a team member actually explaining stuff to you during code reviews :)

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Mark

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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019

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I'd been using JavaScript for a while, and this book helped me to better understand the fundamentals of JavaScript. It's hard to determine how useful this book will be considering how fast JavaScript is evolving and with all the frameworks out there, but always good to learn the fundamentals.

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CH3CH2OH

Great book on understanding the language

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2018

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Though perhaps a little dated since ES6+ features are out, this is still a very valuable read. I initially read it a couple of years ago and even re-reading it now I have learned some things.

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Misja Alma

Good reading for the hardcore Javascript hacker

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2013

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This book gives great insight into the working of functions and closures in Javascript.
What is nice is that every bit of theory is accompanied with some code examples from libaries like jQuery or Prototype, and the examples are explained very well.

One minor negative point is that there are also a lot of pages in the book which are dedicated to deprecated statements like 'eval' and 'with'. It's nice to know how they work, but you shouldn't use them anyway so an entire chapter for each of them seems like too much attention.

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MrMr

The Best Book On JavaScript

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2013

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This book is outstanding. I've read quite a few programming books in the past 12 years - this book is easily in the top 10 for how valuable it has been to me. Especially chapters 1-6. Particularly chapter 6. If you can grasp that, you will have a very solid understanding of the core language of JavaScript. Once you understand the core of JavaScript, other books or examples make much more sense.

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Mamuka

Manning books are difficult to read , smaller font for code . what is that ?

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2021

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Manning does it wrong , show code with smaller font , makes difficult to read it
instead code should be more expressive . bigger font than other text
different font with smaller size is terrible to read
I am avoiding Manning books cause of that
this book is good but reading is difficult

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It explains nice and in a very plain vocabulary

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2015

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A tremendous book. It explains nice and in a very plain vocabulary.

It'll show you how to get started with the main and basics concepts of JavaScript. Will start showing code and core functions for later keep introducing all the implementations that we can do. First JavaScript, Tests, Libraries differences (or implementations from JavaScript frameworks) and jQuery.

Reading this, will make you adopt in a very easy way any framework or JavaScript library.

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Huw Jeffries

Excellent coverage of Javascript

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2013

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This book provides a great intermediate to advanced coverage of Javascript. (I don't recommend it for absolute beginners). I've also read "Javascript the good parts" by Douglas Crockford, which good but quite short and made the reader work hard to fill in the gaps / understand the examples. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja is much easier reading and covers the material at a more leisurely pace.

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Dan Ford

Good read, and useful book to have

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2016

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Good read, and useful book to have! The style of some of the examples is a bit outdated, but understandably so considering the age of the book, the rapid progression of JavaScript and the target audience. I look forward to seeing the new edition being released soon!

Andrew flynn

Excellent for advanced JavaScript developers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2014

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One of the better books I've read covering advanced JavaScript, superb for more experienced developers. Although my JS is very adequate, I found this book great for those little tips and snippets that really assist your JS coding.

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Ian Nielsen

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2015

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A must read book for anyone serious about JavaScript. Simple as that.

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If you are ready to take Javascript to the next level this is a must

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2016

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Really good book, sometimes it becomes a bit too hard but in the end it learned me a lot.

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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja 1st Edition