The JavaScript Way is my favorite. It is unassuming and direct and
doesn’t waste time on ancient, bad things like var. It just gets
right to helping you learn modern JavaScript. It lacks some good
exercises though, so you’ll have to make your own, but that is good
practice as well.
Eloquent JavaScript is my next favorite. Also free, and it covers programming approaches in general as well.
Essential JavaScript is a copyrighted book that is okay, but about the same as the free EJ so I cannot recommend it, even though I once did.
JavaScript, The Definitive Guide recently got a complete update, but I have not yet looked at it. If it in indeed did get an update, it would be the most current guide for JavaScript in existence currently.
Avoid these like the plague:
You Don’t Know JavaScript is not only full of factual flaws and side-topics that have absolutely zero relevance, the author is a dick. Stay the fuck away from this book.
JavaScript, The Good Parts is too fucking ancient to be relevant any more (like most everything else out there).
Any book (or other resource) that teaches var instead of let and
const and doesn’t jump into fat-arrow functions at all telling you
to use function keyword instead. That shit is really old at this
point.
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