Free JavaScript ebooks

A collection of free JavaScript related books in a variety of formats

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• Basic JavaScript for the impatient programmer – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer (HTML)
• Book of Modern Frontend Tooling – Various (HTML)
• Building Front-End Web Apps with Plain JavaScript – Gerd Wagner (HTML,PDF)
• Clean Code JavaScript – Ryan McDermott (HTML)
• Crockford's JavaScript – Douglas Crockford (HTML)
• Deep JavaScript: Theory and techniques – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer (HTML)
• Designing Scalable JavaScript Applications – Emmit Scott (PDF+livebook)
• Dev Docs – Various (HTML)
• Eloquent JavaScript 3rd edition – Marijn Haverbeke (HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI)
• Exploring ES6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer (HTML)
• Google JavaScript Style Guide – Aaron Whyte, Bob Jervis, Dan Pupius, Erik Arvidsson, Fritz Schneider, & Robby Walker (HTML)
• Human JavaScript – Henrik Joreteg (HTML)
• JavaScript Allongé – Reginald Braithwaite (HTML)
• JavaScript Bible – Danny Goodman (PDF)
• JavaScript Challenges Book – Tomás Corral Casas (HTML)
• JavaScript Enlightenment – Cody Lindley (HTML)
• JavaScript ES6 and beyond – Alberto Montalesi (PDF, epub)
• JavaScript For Cats – Maxwell Ogden (HTML)
• JavaScript for Impatient Programmers (ES2020 edition) – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer (HTML)
• JavaScript Fundamentals, Plus a Dash Of JQuery – for dinner ladies – Nicholas Johnson (HTML)
• JavaScript Garden Maintained by Tim Ruffles (HTML)
• JavaScript Interview #35 – Coderslang Master (PDF, email address requested, not required)
• JavaScript Notes for Professionals – Compiled from StackOverflow documentation (PDF)
• JavaScript Patterns Collection – Shi Chuan (HTML)
• JavaScript Spessore – Reginald Braithwaite (HTML)
• JavaScript Succinctly – Cody Lindley (PDF, Kindle; email address requested, not required)
• JavaScript the Right Way – William Oliveira & Allan Esquina (HTML)
• jQuery Fundamentals – Bocoup (HTML)
• JS Robots – Mark Daggett (PDF)
• Leaflet Tips and Tricks: Interactive Maps Made Easy – Malcolm Maclean (HTML)
• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – Addy Osmani (HTML)
• Let's Learn ES6 – Ryan Christiani (Superbook format)
• Managing Space and Time with JavaScript – Book 1: The Basics – Noel Rappin (dead link)
• Marionette Exposé: Learn to write modular Javascript applications using Backbone Marionette and RequireJS/AMD – Jack Killilea (HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI; Leanpub account or valid email requested)
• Mozilla Developer Network's JavaScript Guide – Mozilla Developer Network contributors (HTML)
• Neural Networks with JavaScript Succinctly – James McCaffrey (PDF, EPUB, MOBI)
• Oh My JS – Azat Mardanov (HTML)
• Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture – Addy Osmani (HTML)
• Practical Modern JavaScript – Nicolas Bevacqua (HTML)
• Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming – Brian Lonsdorf (HTML)
• Robust Client-Side JavaScript – Matthias Schäfer (HTML, EPUB)
• Single page apps in depth – Mixu (HTML)
• Speaking JavaScript – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Standard ECMA-262 ECMAScript 2016 Language Specification – Ecma International (HTML,PDF)
• The JavaScript Tutorial – Ilya Kantor (HTML)
• The JavaScript Way – Baptiste Pesquet
• The Problem with Native JavaScript APIs – Nicholas C. Zakas (PDF, email address requested)
• Thinking in JavaScript – Aravind Shenoy (Kindle – account required)
• Understanding ECMAScript 6 – Nicholas C. Zakas (HTML)
• Understanding JavaScript OOP – Quil (HTML)
• You Don't Know JS – Kyle Simpson (HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI)