The Mission

The case doesn’t really need to be made for why developers should take JS seriously—I think it’s already more than proven worthy of first-class status among the world’s programming languages.

But a different, more important case still needs to be made, and these books rise to that challenge.

I’ve taught more than 5,000 developers from teams and companies all over the world, in more than 25 countries on six continents. And what I’ve seen is that far too often, what counts is generally just the result of the program, not how the program is written or how/why it works.

My experience not only as a developer but in teaching many other developers tells me: you will always be more effective in your development work if you more completely understand how your code works than you are solely just getting it to produce a desired outcome.

In other words, good enough to work is not, and should not be, good enough.

All developers regularly struggle with some piece of code not working correctly, and they can’t figure out why. But far too often, JS developers will blame this on the language rather than admitting it’s their own understanding that is falling short. These books serve as both the question and answer: why did it do this, and here’s how to get it to do that instead.

My mission with YDKJSY is to empower every single JS developer to fully own the code they write, to understand it and to write with intention and clarity.