I’m probably not even as far as you so I can’t say, but YDKJS has incredible reviews here. Look it up on the forums - you’ll also probably find @P1xt 's advice on what to read - and why they don’t like Eloquent Javascript that much.
YDKJS … I find it amazing: clear, not an heavy read, plenty of coding example. It is great read together the Udemy “JavaScript the wierd parts” course, actually YDKJS is the “book” copy. Highlight on important topics like Objects, Closure and Scope…first book, has a great intro to most important elements of the JavaScript engine.
The Ducket book, it’s a nice to have…good explanation, great illustrations, but the topics are not shown in a real logic way, for somebody looking at JS for the first time it can be confusing.
Eloquent is also a nice to have (it’s free so no harm)…for sure there interesting concepts to grab, but personally I do not like for learning purposes (rather as a bed reading)…layout and examples I don’t find really explanatory.
In conclusion, for JavaScript reading, I would suggest the online documentation at the Mozilla Development web page…amazing.
@benjaminthedev
Before buying a book just check out first if they are offered for free, unless you want to contibute with the author and get addtional services, which I think it is also an option.
confirmed great books:
1. "Javascript and JQuery" by John Ducket (rly nice overview on all important concepts)
2. "JS Up & Going" by Kyle Simpson (1st book free, from "You dont know JS" Series, rly good)
3. "Learning Javascript" by Ethan Brown (best+newest maybe, client+server-side-JS)
I have the actual book, but there is probably an ebook for this too. It’s called “A Smarter Way to Learn Javascript” by Mark Myers. It breaks Javascript in bite sized chunks and has helped me understand a lot more. I would highly recommend it.