Everything about JavaScript syntax

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: JavaScript syntaxA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: The web application hacker's handbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Fuzzing JavaScript engines with a syntax-aware neural program modelCited 8 times
4. Go sideways: PHP syntax and semanticsA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Immutable objectA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Fuzzing JavaScript engines with a syntax-aware neural program model

  Haoran Xu, Yongjun Wang, Zhiyuan Jiang · 2024 · Computers & Security · 8 citations

• Detection of Obfuscated Javascript Code Based on Abstract Syntax Trees Coloring

  G. S. Ponomarenko, P. G. Klyucharev · 2020 · Mathematics and Mathematical Modeling · 1 citations

• JAVASCRIPT INTERPRETER USING NON RECURSIVE ABSTRACT SYNTAX TREE BASED STACK

  Patra · 2013 · American Journal of Applied Sciences · 0 citations

• A Study on Abstract Syntax Tree for Development of a JavaScript Compiler

  Jaehyun Kim, Yangsun Lee · 2018 · International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The web application hacker's handbookDafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto · 2007
• Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScriptRobin Nixon · 2009
• ActionScriptColin Moock · 2001
• JavaScriptDouglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de · 2008
• JavaScriptRavi Tomar, Sarishma Dangi · 2021
• Apache Solr Beginner's GuideAlfredo Serafini · 2013
• JavaScript Quick Syntax ReferenceMikael Olsson · 2015
• Learning jQueryJonathan Chaffer · 2011

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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