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Head First Javascript: open source libraries?

 
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Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson, welcome to the ranch!

When starting out with JavaScript it can be a pretty daunting task to put together a solid development environment and choosing from a wide range of open source libraries.
Does your book give any advice around this?

Thanks,
Peter
 
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Hi Peter,
The book doesn't give any advice on those topics, and you're right - they are daunting tasks! The book focuses on the language fundamentals.

However, those topics are really good ones, and it's something I'd like to post about on wickedlysmart.com. One of our ideas is to tackle larger case studies (to help readers put their new JS skills to good use), and in the process deal with these questions about development environments, development processes, and libraries and frameworks.

I agree, these are topics that need to be addressed. For newbie JS programmers, actually even intermediate ones, it's hugely intimidating to delve into this rapidly changing area. I feel like there's a new JS framework announced every day!! How to keep up?!

Elisabeth
 
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