[acmecorps]

Looks nice - and the font! ;)

On a more serious note, I know ruby, but I really want to learn JS - is this a good place to start? Or, is there a better place to start, and then come back here?

[TheAceOfHearts]

As I commented on the parent [0], I'd suggest checking out the JavaScript books by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer! In addition to learning about the language, he also published Setting up ES6, which covers how you'd go about setting up your environment in order to target node and browsers that support ES5.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105020

[k2052]

It is more targeted towards people that know some JS but want to learn ES6 or are struggling with parts of ES6. It is a quick mini-book focused on ES6 with some refresher of more advanced-ish JS concepts like hoisting and closures. It says 7 days, but you could easily digest the content in a weekend :)

I'd recommend you check out other resources first then comeback. I highly recommend the You Don't Know JS books https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

[sandGorgon]

I dont like vanilla JS. I appreciate and am highly productive in ES6.

For new-to-javascripties, I generally recommend skipping over vanilla js and going straight to ES6.

You can easily run ES6 code in nodejs - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36417585/how-to-execute-e...

(and obviously in everything else like reactjs, etc)

[yoodenvranx]

My favorite JS book at the moment is http://eloquentjavascript.net/