What is a good short book if I want to get really good at #JavaScript? I can’t stand video courses and I don’t need anything to teach me basics of programming or super beginner stuff.
@collin Even though you said no video courses - I might recommend my friend Gary Bernhardt’s Execute Program courses. He’s very good at what he does https://www.executeprogram.com/courses
@collin The "you don't know JS" guy is good, Zakas is good. Typescript, imho, is an easier way to approach JS because TS will tell you when you've made a mistake & vanilla js just assumes you always meant what you wrote.
TypeScript is #EmbraceExtendExtinguish in the form of a half-assed attempt to make a static language out of a dynamic one.
If you start with TS, you'll categorically miss out on the "zen of JS" - and you won't know where JS ends and TS begins
(Idk if there isn't some setting for TS to passively typecheck unmodified JS code though - which it should be able, to a large extent, by using type inference)
TS can be very frustrating and limiting and core devs don't give a shit
@chovekoid@mistersql I understand why people like TypeScript, but I think I would really rather focus on vanilla. I like keeping my build systems as simple as possible.
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