Praise for the First Edition

 

Finally, from a master, a book that delivers what an aspiring JavaScript developer requires to learn the art of crafting effective cross-browser JavaScript.

Glenn Stokol, Senior Principal Curriculum Developer, Oracle Corporation

Consistent with the jQuery motto, “Write less, do more.”

André Roberge, Université Saint-Anne

Interesting and original techniques.

Scott Sauyet, Four Winds Software

Read this book, and you’ll no longer blindly plug in a snippet of code and marvel at how it works—you’ll understand “why” it works.

Joe Litton, Collaborative Software Developer, JoeLitton.net

Will help you raise your JavaScript to the realm of the masters.

Christopher Haupt, greenstack.com

The stuff ninjas need to know.

Chad Davis, author of Struts 2 in Action

Required reading for any JavaScript Master.

John J. Ryan III, Princigration LLC

This book is a must-have for any serious JS coder. Your knowledge of the language will dramatically expand.

S., Amazon reader

Author’s Introduction

It’s incredible to think of how much the world of JavaScript has changed since I first started writing Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja back in 2008. The world in which we write JavaScript now, while still being largely centered around the browser, is nearly unrecognizable.