README.md

Front-end Development Best Practices

##JavaScript

###Index

• ES6
• Patterns
• Style Guide
• Testing
• Resources

Testing

  function test () {
    return true;
  }

• Whichever testing framework you use, you should be writing tests!
• Strive to write many small pure functions, and minimize where mutations occur.
• Be cautious about stubs and mocks - they can make your tests more brittle.
• 100% test coverage is a good goal to strive for, even if it's not always practical to reach it.
• Whenever you fix a bug, write a regression test. A bug fixed without a regression test is almost certainly going to break again in the future.

Performance

• On Layout & Web Performance
• String vs Array Concat
• Try/Catch Cost In a Loop
• Bang Function
• jQuery Find vs Context, Selector
• innerHTML vs textContent for script text
• Long String Concatenation
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Resources

Learning ES6

• Draft ECMA 2015 (ES6) Spec
• ExploringJS
• ES6 Compatibility Table
• Comprehensive Overview of ES6 Features

Read This

• Standard ECMA-262

Tools

• Code Style Linters
  • ESlint - Airbnb Style .eslintrc
  • JSHint - Airbnb Style .jshintrc
  • JSCS - Airbnb Style Preset

Other Style Guides

• Google JavaScript Style Guide
• jQuery Core Style Guidelines
• Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript

Other Styles

• Naming this in nested functions - Christian Johansen
• Conditional Callbacks - Ross Allen
• Popular JavaScript Coding Conventions on Github - JeongHoon Byun
• Multiple var statements in JavaScript, not superfluous - Ben Alman

Further Reading

• Understanding JavaScript Closures - Angus Croll
• Basic JavaScript for the impatient programmer - Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• You Might Not Need jQuery - Zack Bloom & Adam Schwartz
• ES6 Features - Luke Hoban
• Frontend Guidelines - Benjamin De Cock

Books

• JavaScript: The Good Parts - Douglas Crockford
• JavaScript Patterns - Stoyan Stefanov
• Pro JavaScript Design Patterns - Ross Harmes and Dustin Diaz
• High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers - Steve Souders
• Maintainable JavaScript - Nicholas C. Zakas
• JavaScript Web Applications - Alex MacCaw
• Pro JavaScript Techniques - John Resig
• Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere - Guillermo Rauch
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja - John Resig and Bear Bibeault
• Human JavaScript - Henrik Joreteg
• Superhero.js - Kim Joar Bekkelund, Mads Mobæk, & Olav Bjorkoy
• JSBooks - Julien Bouquillon
• Third Party JavaScript - Ben Vinegar and Anton Kovalyov
• Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript - David Herman
• Eloquent JavaScript - Marijn Haverbeke
• You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond - Kyle Simpson

Blogs

• DailyJS
• JavaScript Weekly
• JavaScript, JavaScript...
• Bocoup Weblog
• Adequately Good
• NCZOnline
• Perfection Kills
• Ben Alman
• Dmitry Baranovskiy
• Dustin Diaz
• nettuts

News/Blogs Collection Sites

• EchoJS
• HotJS

Podcasts

• JavaScript Jabber

Others

• W3C JS APIs
• MDN Web Documentation
• DevDocs (works offline)
• TodoMVC: framework / library comparision
• Framework / Library comparision
• Rendering performance benchmark
• RegExp Builder / Test
• WebComponents

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