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by NathanCH 3311 days ago
Agree with most of your answer but your last point is pretty optimistic. Nowadays most Javascript is a bundled package of 100 minified npm modules.

Also there are many books online which don't need to go through the hoops you describe.
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jamescostian 3311 days ago
If you visit a website owned by a company you're probably right. If you visit a little demo (like the type of thing someone would hack up in a day and put up on show HN) you'd be surprised by how much investigation you can do.

I agree that there are many books online though, and they can provide a lot of nice things like running code samples in your browser. However, I find video tutorials to provide a better experience than books, online or not. I suppose that's just a matter of personal preference though.

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flavio81 3311 days ago
That's a problem specific to the Node.js NPM ecosystem.

However Javascript (in its current ES7 version) is a pretty good language.

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