JavaScript Books


Rails on Containers

Ruby Docker Kubernetes

This book is designed to introduce you to using containers and Kubernetes for full-stack development. You'll learn how to develop a full-stack application using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL with Sidekiq, and how to manage them all - first with Docker, then with Docker Compose, and finally with Kubernetes. The topics that it covers include how to: -

CSS Animation 101

CSS

This book is for people who build for the web and want to add animation to their designs and sites. A bit of basic CSS knowledge is needed but I won't assume any knowledge of transitions or animations. We'll start with the basics, and through a mix of theory and practical examples, learn all about transitions and animation.

How To Code in React.js

React JavaScript

This open book is an introduction to React that works from the foundations upward. Each chapter takes you a little deeper into the React ecosystem, building on your previous knowledge. Along the way, you'll learn how to maintain internal state, pass information between parts of an application, and explore different options for styling your applicat

Blazor, A Beginners Guide

Blazor C#

Blazor, A Beginners Guide is intended for developers with some .NET experience. If you're coming from a non-.NET development background, you may learn some .NET basics along the way, but supplemental material around C# and .NET would be of great help to you. The book begins with the author's own perspective on WebAssembly, why it's important to hav

Image Processing for Engineers

This is an image processing textbook with a difference. Instead of just a picture gallery of before-and-after images, we provide (on the accompanying website) MATLAB programs (.m files) and images (.mat files) for each of the examples. These allow the reader to experiment with various parameters, such as noise strength, and see their effect on the

Mastering Shiny

R Shiny

Master the Shiny web framework - and take your R skills to a whole new level. By letting you move beyond static reports, Shiny helps you create fully interactive web apps for data analyses. Users will be able to jump between datasets, explore different subsets or facets of the data, run models with parameter values of their choosing, customize visu

Rhetorical Code Studies

Software developers work rhetorically to make meaning through the code they write. In some ways, writing code is like any other form of communication; in others, it proves to be new, exciting, and unique. In Rhetorical Code Studies, Kevin Brock explores how software code serves as meaningful communication through which software developers construct

Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy

Digital accessibility skills are in high demand, as the world becomes more aware of barriers in digital content that prevent some people from participating in a digital society. These are essential skills for web developers, and essential knowledge for organizations that want to ensure their web content is reaching the broadest audience possible. T

React in patterns

React JavaScript

React in Patterns is a comprehensive guide to building scalable and maintainable user interfaces with React. Authored by Krasimir Tsonev, this book explores common design patterns and advanced techniques used in modern React development. Readers will learn how to leverage React's powerful composition model, manage data flow effectively, use context

Reintroducing React

React JavaScript

In this book, unlike any readers may have come across before, the author delivers funny, unfeigned, and dead serious comic strips about every React update since v16+. It's designed to be hilarious, easy for beginners as well as professionals, and highly informative as a whole. From the new lifecycle methods to advanced hooks patterns in React, the