Who Is This Book For?

This book is for programmers, full-stack developers, lead developers, software architects, technical managers, or just about anyone who dives into code and is interested in learning and applying modern JavaScript. If you feared JavaScript or if the language annoyed you in the past, this book will show how the language has beautifully evolved in ECMAScript 2015 (ES6), 2016 (ES7), and 2017 (ES8) and how it is now highly approachable. You can make use of these features to program the front or the back end using JavaScript.

This book assumes the reader is familiar with basics of programming—it does not teach the fundamentals of programming. Some prior knowledge of JavaScript will be helpful. Programmers who are familiar with languages like Java, C#, and Python but who are not familiar with JavaScript should be able to pick up the concepts presented fairly quickly.

If you’re already familiar with the materials presented in this book, you may use this book to help train your developers.