What books would you recommend to a developer(prim...
# book-club
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What books would you recommend to a developer(primarily FE) which would help in career growth? I’m reading The Pragmatic Programmer right now.
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Mythical Man Month! The Phoenix Project & The Unicorn Project
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One book I'd suggest is Clean Code, it isn't frontend development centric but will help you be a better developer in general. There are plenty of books focused on JS, and I've not read any of them, what I read instead are blog posts in places like Smashing Magazine, HTML5Rocks (now obsolete), CSS-tricks, and other similar places. Thing about frontend development is that it is very rapidly changing domain, so you either move fast to match it, or you learn stuff as you need. 🙂 On a side note, reading implementations of existing frontend projects that you admire would help you grow the most.
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If you are interested in broadening your skill set to systems and the back end, the book "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" is one of my most favorite computer science books. It is an amazing book teaching how an operating system works!
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1. Clean code 2. Refactoring 3. Working effectively with legacy code. My 70-80% part of development always fall into this 3 books.
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Thanks for this thread 🙂
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1. Debugging CSS by Ahmad Shadeed 2. Every Layout by Andy Bell 3. Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan 4. YDKJS by Kyle Simpson
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^+100 for Every Layout and YDKJS. There’s a course on Frontend Masters for YDKJS.