Criticism From Book: JavaScript: The Good Parts

JavaScript: The Good Parts, written by Douglas Crockford, is intended for an intermediate public in Javascript, who already know the basics of the language. It is short, a hundred pages without appendices. Good practices, according to the author, are described ways of clear, concise and easy to understand as long as you already have notions in Javascript.

To understand the purpose of the book, it is necessary to know who is what and why Douglas Crockford Javascript Dad has bad sides. Sir D. Crockford is considered one of the fathers of the current eponymous community. He is the creator of the famous JSON format and the tool JSLint.

Douglas Crockford is a man who loves a pinch, code quality and simply wants to play both by the man by the machine. It teaches us in this book to appreciate the good features and forget the evil! He does it with concrete examples and clearly explains his approach by lapprentissage. Of course, some points are at the correct appreciation of the reader, but the author explains why a particular feature is discarded. We are free to then keep it or not.

This book therefore literally opened my eyes to certain practices that I thought good, but which are, when you dig, bad or likely to bring down our code at the slightest jolt.

At the end of this book, you will be advised of what to do in Javascript to avoid common pitfalls that are unfortunately part of the language by its history. If you have the ambition to perfect your knowledge in JavaScript, you must read this book!

A version French version, JavaScript: Keep the best, translated by Patrick Fabre!. However, I think it is best to read in original version if you are comfortable with langlais. For in the translation, which should not be translated in my ballast. For example, the closure is closed. Why learn new technical terms that we shall not see anywhere else?

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