You Don't Know JS Yet
Scope & Closures
by Kyle Simpson
Recommended by Sarah Drasner and Una Kravets
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Web Development and Javascript.
Scope & Closures, the second book in the new edition series, dives deep into how and why to organize variables into different buckets of scope, limiting scope overexposure and improving code maintainability. On top of lexical scope, closure empowers functions with memory, preserving variables across calls. Modules leverage scope and closures to en...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Web Development and Javascript.
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Una Kravets
“"Intermediate" frontend dev books I recommend: JS the YDKJS series by @getify CSS CSS Secrets by @LeaVerou | @nerdwithus Great question! I like the @YDKJS series by Kyle Simpson, also Eloquent JavaScript is a great book these are good for understanding vanilla JS, and then from there learning other tools is a little easier.”
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