Exploring JS: JavaScript books for programmers

Most of the books arefree to read online! You can also buy offline versions.

Versions of JavaScript

• “ES” stands for “ECMAScript” (ES6 is ECMAScript 6, etc.).
• ECMAScript is standard name for JavaScript.

Essential JavaScript and TypeScript books

	Exploring JavaScript (ES2025 edition)  New A modern guide to the language for programmers Start reading here
	Deep #"ts/index.html">	Exploring TypeScript  New If you know #"nodejs-shell-scripting/index.html">	Shell scripting with Node.js If you know #"es6.html">	Exploring ES6 Covers what’s new in ES6 (relative to ES5)
	Speaking JavaScript (ES1–ES5) JavaScript for programmers No required knowledge (apart from programming)

Books related to JavaScript

• Exploring ReasonML and functional programming

About the author

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer specializes in JavaScript and web development. Heblogs, writes books and teaches classes.

Axel has been writing about the future of JavaScriptsince early 2011.

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