JavaScript Reference describe the language features, behaviours, APIs and essentials. This category is NOT for tutorials or help guides and documents.
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- ECMA-262: ECMAScript specification The official specification for ECMAScript, the vendor-neutral standard for what was originally Netscape's JavaScript.
- QuirksMode: DOM Includes an introduction to the Level 1 DOM, compatibility tables, browser script benchmarks, and samples.
- Traversing an HTML Table with JavaScript and DOM Interfaces Learn DOM Core Level 1.0 methods and how to use them from JavaScript to dynamically create, access and remove HTML elements.
- JavaScript has a Unicode problem · Mathias Bynens Write-up explains the pain points associated with Unicode in JavaScript, provides solutions for common problems, and explains how the upcoming ECMAScript 6 will improve the situation.
- JavaScript Overview Introduces JavaScript and discusses some of its fundamental concepts.
- Client-Side JavaScript Guide How to use core and client-side JavaScript.
- Whitespace in the DOM Article covering techniques and tips about the presence of whitespaces in the DOM.
- DevDocs Combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.
- Dottoro's JavaScript Detailed descriptions, browser support information, examples and cross-browser solutions.
- lukehoban/es6features Overview of ECMAScript 6 features with sample code.
- Draft Specification ECMA-262 6th Edition (harmony) A historical record, the working draft of the ES.next specification prepared by the project editor.
- ECMAScript 6 compatibility table Detail features names with browser compatibility.
- Microsoft: JavaScript Language Reference In the context of Microsoft products.
- JavaScript Reference The JavaScript Reference serves as a repository of facts about the JavaScript language.
- ECMAScript The language of the web. Documentation, community, development.
- Memory Management Explains benefits, pitfalls and limitations of garbage collection.
- Dash API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager, searches offline documentation of 130+ APIs and stores snippets of code. Also allows to generate own documentation sets.
- ES Discuss Aims to provide an easily browsable, nicely formatted archive of all the email correspondence on the es-discuss@mozilla.org mailing list.
- JavaScript Technologies Overview While HTML is used to define the structure and content of a web page and CSS encodes the style of how the formatted content should be graphically displayed, JavaScript is used to add interactivity to a web page or create rich web applications.
- ECMA-262 by Dmitry Soshnikov ECMAScript theorist, interprets the essentials of the language.
- Inheritance and the Prototype Chain JavaScript is a bit confusing for developers experienced in class-based languages (like Java or C++), as it is dynamic and does not provide a class implementation (although the keyword class is a reserved keyword and cannot be used as a variable name). This document develops the topic.
- Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript JavaScript has strong object-oriented programming capabilities, even though some debates have taken place due to the differences in object-oriented JavaScript compared to other languages.
- Web API Interfaces Comprehensive list of JavaScript interfaces, that is, types of objects.
- Web APIs APIs that allow Web apps and content to access device hardware (such as battery status or the device vibration hardware), as well as access to data stored on the device (such as the calendar or contacts list).
- Web API Reference A wide variety of APIs to perform various useful tasks.
- Document Object Model (DOM) API for manipulating HTML and XML documents. Provides a structural representation of the document, enabling to modify its content and visual presentation by using a scripting language such as JavaScript.
- Sameness in JavaScript ES6 has three built-in facilities for determining whether some x and some y are "the same".
- Closures Closures are functions that refer to independent (free) variables.
- Smashing Coding: Understanding JavaScript's Function.prototype.bind How to keep the context of 'this' within another function, about the usage of Function.prototype.bind().
- Functions are First Class Objects in JavaScript JavaScript functions are just a special type of object that can do all the things that regular objects can do.
- Named Function Expressions Demystified Theoretical and practical aspects of these wonderful JavaScript constructs; the good, bad and ugly parts of them.
- Proposed ECMAScript 4th Edition Language overview.
- Server-Side JavaScript Guide How to use core and server-side JavaScript for version 1.2. JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language for client and server applications.
- Can I use... Compatibility tables, browser comparatives, for JavaScript APIs.
- DocHub: JavaScript Instant documentation search.
- JavaScript Patterns JavaScript patterns and antipatterns collection. Includes: General Patterns, jQuery and jQuery Plugin Patterns, Literals and Constructors Patterns, Function Patterns, Object Creation and Code Reuse Patterns, Design Patterns.
- W3C: JavaScript APIs List the status of current APIs, including completed work, drafts, group notes and obsolete specifications.
- JavaScript anti-patterns For frontend writing using jQuery.
- Strict mode ECMAScript 5's strict mode is a way to opt in to a restricted variant of JavaScript.
- ECMAScript Language Specification ECMA-262 6th Edition – DRAFT HTML version.