"Sometimes I think about comments as a time machine that I use to send important messages to future me."
- Douglas Crookford

"I prefer to make the structure of my programs self-illuminating, eliminating the need for comments."
- Douglas Crookford

..come on Douglas, make up your mind!

"I'm not always successful, so while my programs are awaiting perfection, I'm writing comments."

ok, fine.

@Letmecode I've seen and heared a ton of references to his book, The Good Parts, as the definitive go to book on JS, or at least they recommend it a lot as a first read. I've found it good, sometimes brief, sometimes brief and pretentious, but overall it was ok.

I've found Stoyan Stefanov's JavaScript Patterns a lot more enjoyable and useful. It was writen before the release of ES5, but that book is still awesome.

@nordboerg did you take a look to Kyle Simpson's "You don't know JS" books serie? All of them are really, really good. A must-read.

@leny I know about it, but haven't read any yet. I was hesitating between the ES6 and beyod guide and another one on the same topic by Nicholas Zakas, and picked the latter. But thanks for the recommendation, I'll take another look.

@nordboerg you can see each book as a chapter of a big, complete book about JavaScript. Kyle Simpson made an admirable and complete work on these, at the point I think it's one of the book you *must* read if you want to be serious about JavaScript in these years.

@leny just arrived to his github where the complete series is available. great stuff!