Everything about JavaScript

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: JavaScriptA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Dependency Smells in JavaScript ProjectsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: JavaScriptThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Sequence Manipulation Suite: JavaScript Programs for Analyzing and Formatting Protein and DNA SequencesCited 1,583 times
5. Go sideways: ECMAScriptA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: List of JavaScript enginesA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Sequence Manipulation Suite: JavaScript Programs for Analyzing and Formatting Protein and DNA Sequences

  Paul Stothard · 2000 · BioTechniques · 1,583 citations

• jsPsych: A JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments in a Web browser

  Joshua R. de Leeuw · 2014 · Behavior Research Methods · 1,422 citations

• igv.js: an embeddable JavaScript implementation of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)

  James T Robinson, Helga Thorvaldsdottir, Douglass Turner · 2022 · Bioinformatics · 566 citations

• Node.js: Using JavaScript to Build High-Performance Network Programs

  Stefan Tilkov, Steve Vinoski · 2010 · IEEE Internet Computing · 401 citations

• JSME: a free molecule editor in JavaScript

  Bruno Bienfait, Peter Ertl · 2013 · Journal of Cheminformatics · 258 citations

• MSAViewer: interactive JavaScript visualization of multiple sequence alignments

  Guy Yachdav, Sebastian Wilzbach, Benedikt Rauscher · 2016 · Bioinformatics · 172 citations

• Psychophysics in a Web browser? Comparing response times collected with JavaScript and Psychophysics Toolbox in a visual search task

  Joshua R. de Leeuw, Benjamin A. Motz · 2015 · Behavior Research Methods · 158 citations

• BioCircos.js: an interactive Circos JavaScript library for biological data visualization on web applications

  Ya Cui, Xiaowei Chen, Huaxia Luo · 2016 · Bioinformatics · 140 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects

  Abbas Javan Jafari, Diego Elias Costa, Rabe Abdalkareem · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 48 citations

• BINANA 2: Characterizing Receptor/Ligand Interactions in Python and JavaScript

  Jade Young, Neerja Garikipati, Jacob D. Durrant · 2022 · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 37 citations

• Detection of Obfuscated Malicious JavaScript Code

  Ammar Alazab, Ansam Khraisat, Moutaz Alazab · 2022 · Future Internet · 35 citations

• MFXSS: An effective XSS vulnerability detection method in JavaScript based on multi-feature model

  Zhonglin Liu, Yong Fang, Cheng Huang · 2023 · Computers & Security · 34 citations

• JStrong: Malicious JavaScript detection based on code semantic representation and graph neural network

  Yong Fang, Chaoyi Huang, Minchuan Zeng · 2022 · Computers & Security · 33 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• JavaScriptDavid Flanagan · 1996
• Professional JavaScript for Web developersNicholas C. Zakas · 2005
• Beginning JavaScriptPaul Wilton · 2000
• JavaScript bibleDanny Goodman · 1996
• You Don't Know JSKyle Simpson · 2014
• JavaScriptDavid Flanagan · 1998
• Eloquent JavascriptMarijn Haverbeke · 2009
• Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScriptRobin Nixon · 2009

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🔗 Related topics

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