Addy Osmani

Lydia Hallie

In this book, you will learn design patterns, performance and rendering patterns for building high-quality web applications using modern JavaScript and React. Patterns are time-tested templates for writing code. They can be really powerful, whether you're a seasoned developer or beginner, bringing a valuable level of resilience and flexibility to your codebase. Whether it's better user-experience, developer-experience or just smarter architecture, the patterns in “Learning Patterns” can be a valuable consideration for any modern web application.

Patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and React

Learning Patterns

Developer Experience (DX) is all about how easily and effectively developers can get things done. Good DX is like good UX for developers. It is about creating tools, APIs, and services that enable developers to be productive, satisfied, and empowered. This book by Addy Osmani makes the case for why DX matters - it impacts developer happiness, retention, innovation velocity, and business performance. It also explores core principles like ensuring a smooth onboarding, minimizing complexity, providing good documentation and community support. It discusses frameworks to measure DX using metrics for usability, findability, usefulness. Developer journey mapping is proposed as a technique to identify pain points and friction. The book explains how to enable a DX mindset in your organization, implement a DX roadmap, and track DX maturity levels. There are case studies demonstrating where investments in DX translated to tangible business value. With a great DX, developers can create exceptional end-user experiences. Read ahead for insights and a practical guide to improve your DX. The key takeaway is that optimizing DX should be a priority and requires a cross-functional effort spanning product, engineering and community engagement.

Developer Experience

Provides a practical modern guide to delivering high-quality images on the web -- from formats and compression to delivery and maintenance. The book focuses on what matters: modern approaches to image compression and image delivery, practical tools and techniques to automate optimization, responsive images, current and emerging image formats, how browsers load, decode and render images, CDNs, lazy-loading, adaptive media loading and how to optimize for Core Web Vitals.

Image Optimization: The Humble img Element; I IMAGE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE: 2 Optimizing Image Quality; 3 Comparing Image Formats; 4 Color Management; 5 Image Decoding Performance; 6 Measuring Image Performance; II CURRENTIMAGE FORMATS: 7 JPEG; 8 PNG; 9 WebP; 10 SVG; III IMAGES IN BROWSERS: 11 Responsive Images; 12 Progressive Rendering Techniques; 13 Caching image assets; 14 Lazy-Loading Images; 15 Replacing Animated GIFs; 16 Image Content Delivery Networks; III NEW AND EMERGING IMAGE FORMATS: 17 HEIF and HEIC; 18 AVIF; 19 JPEG XL; 20 Comparing New Image File Formats; V FURTHER OPTIMIZATION: 21 Data Saver; 22 Optimize Images for Core Web Vitals; 23 Case study: Twitter

In "Software Engineering - The Soft Parts" Addy Osmani shares lessons from his first 10 years at Google on the "soft skills" that can help engineers become effective and scale their effectiveness. This guidance should help junior, mid-career and even senior developers move forward, deal with changing technology, and navigate building non-trivial systems. Becoming a good engineer is about collecting experience. Each project, even small ones, is a chance to add new techniques and tools to your toolbox. Where this delivers even more value is when you can solve problems by pairing techniques learned on one project with tools learned working on another. This short book tries to capture what the "soft skills" are and how they can all add up.

Software Engineering - The Soft Parts

In this insightful and comprehensive guide, Addy Osmani shares more than a decade of experience working on the Chrome team at Google, uncovering secrets to engineering effectiveness, efficiency, and team success. Engineers and engineering leaders looking to scale their effectiveness and drive transformative results within their teams and organizations will learn the essential principles, tips, and frameworks for building highly effective engineering teams. Osmani presents best practices and proven strategies that foster engineering excellence in organizations of all sizes. Through practical advice and real-world examples, Leading Effective Engineering Teams empowers you to create a thriving engineering culture where individuals and teams can excel. Unlock the full potential of your engineering team and achieve unparalleled success by harnessing the power of trust, commitment, and accountability. With this book, you'll discover: The essential traits for engineering effectiveness and the pitfalls to avoid How to cultivate trust, commitment, and accountability within your team Strategies to minimize friction, optimize career growth, and deliver maximum value The dynamics of highly successful engineering teams and how to replicate their achievements How to implement a systems thinking approach for everyday problem-solving and decision-making Self-advocacy techniques to enhance your team's visibility and recognition within the organization

Lessons for Individual Contributors and Managers from 10 Years at Google

Leading Effective Engineering Teams

An introduction to writing code with JavaScript using classical and modern design patterns, including modules, observers, facades, and mediators.

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

Lessons from 10 years at Google

GoLimitlesss

Discover the timeless wisdom of Stoicism in a modern context with "The Stoic Mind," an enlightening visual guide by GoLimitless and Addy Osmani. This rich exploration connects ancient philosophical tenets to modern-day scenarios, offering you a compass to navigate life's challenging waves with resilience and inner peace. Whether it's about stepping out of your comfort zone, taking control of your calendar, measuring success by your own standards, or understanding the multifaceted nature of success and failure, this book offers a treasure trove of insights, each steeped in the enduring wisdom of Stoicism. Remember, the journey is about progress, not perfection. As you turn the pages of "The Stoic Mind," you equip yourself with the tools to sail through life's vast ocean with fortitude, irrespective of the storms you face. These teachings aren't relics of the past but beacons of wisdom for the present and future.

A Visual Exploration Of Stoic Philosophy

The Stoic Mind

Die Softwareentwicklung von morgen beginnt heute Mit KI-Kompetenz die eigene Karriere zukunftssicher gestalten: für Einsteiger und erfahrene Developer. Für die gesamte Softwareentwicklung von Prototyping und Web-App-Entwicklung bis zu Qualitätssicherung und Sicherheitsfragen Inklusive Vibe-Coders-Toolkit mit fortgeschrittenen Techniken und Best Practices KI verändert die Softwareentwicklung von Grund auf: Entwickler schreiben nicht mehr nur Code, sondern arbeiten mit der KI zusammen. Durch Prompting in natürlicher Sprache teilen sie der KI Anforderungen und Absichten mit und das Sprachmodell erzeugt den Code – mit enormer Geschwindigkeit, aber auch potenziellen Qualitätsrisiken. Addy Osmani zeigt, wie KI-Coding-Assistenten wie GitHub Copilot und OpenAI Codex die Art und Weise, wie wir Software entwickeln, neu prägen: von der Automatisierung alltäglicher Programmieraufgaben bis hin zu Architektur und Designentscheidungen. Dieser Leitfaden bietet Entwicklerinnen, technischen Leitern und Unternehmen praktische Strategien, um KI effektiv in ihre Arbeitsabläufe zu integrieren. Sie erfahren, wie Sie klare Ziele und Vorgaben für die KI formulieren, KI-generierten Code kritisch prüfen und einzelne Komponenten zu einem kohärenten Ganzen zusammenfügen. Ob Sie KI-Tools bereits einsetzen oder sich auf die Zukunft der Softwareentwicklung vorbereiten – dieses Buch bietet Ihnen fundierte Einsichten und praktische Beispiele, um auf den neuesten Stand zu kommen. Verstehen Sie, wie KI-gestütztes Entwickeln die Programmierung verändert. Eignen Sie sich Techniken an, um KI-generierten Code zu verbessern, zu validieren und zu debuggen. Erkunden Sie das Potenzial agentischer Coding-Umgebungen und KI-gesteuerter Software-Workflows. Sichern Sie Ihre berufliche Zukunft, indem Sie die Möglichkeiten der KI ausloten.

Produktiv programmieren mit KI

Vibe Coding professionell

If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone’s own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. Start with the basics of MVC, SPA, and Backbone, then get your hands dirty building sample applications—a simple Todo list app, a RESTful book library app, and a modular app with Backbone and RequireJS. Author Addy Osmani, an engineer for Google’s Chrome team, also demonstrates advanced uses of the framework. Learn how Backbone.js brings MVC benefits to the client-side Write code that can be easily read, structured, and extended Work with the Backbone.Marionette and Thorax extension frameworks Solve common problems you’ll encounter when using Backbone.js Organize your code into modules with AMD and RequireJS Paginate data for your Collections with the Backbone.Paginator plugin Bootstrap a new Backbone.js application with boilerplate code Use Backbone with jQuery Mobile and resolve routing problems between the two Unit-test your Backbone apps with Jasmine, QUnit, and SinonJS

Building Better JavaScript Applications

Developing Backbone.js Applications

Developing Backbone.js Applications : Building Better JavaScript Applications

With Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, you’ll learn how to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying classical and modern design patterns to the language. If you want to keep your code efficient, more manageable, and up-to-date with the latest best practices, this book is for you. Explore many popular design patterns, including Modules, Observers, Facades, and Mediators. Learn how modern architectural patterns—such as MVC, MVP, and MVVM—are useful from the perspective of a modern web application developer. This book also walks experienced JavaScript developers through modern module formats, how to namespace code effectively, and other essential topics. Learn the structure of design patterns and how they are written Understand different pattern categories, including creational, structural, and behavioral Walk through more than 20 classical and modern design patterns in JavaScript Use several options for writing modular code—including the Module pattern, Asyncronous Module Definition (AMD), and CommonJS Discover design patterns implemented in the jQuery library Learn popular design patterns for writing maintainable jQuery plug-ins "This book should be in every JavaScript developer’s hands. It’s the go-to book on JavaScript patterns that will be read and referenced many times in the future."—Andrée Hansson, Lead Front-End Developer, presis!

A JavaScript and jQuery Developer's Guide

Do you want to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying modern design patterns to the language? Do you want clean, efficient, manageable code? Want to stay up-to-date with the latest best practices? If so, the updated second edition of Learning JavaScript Design Patterns is the ideal place to start. Author Addy Osmani shows you how to apply modern design patterns to JavaScript and React—including modules, mixins, observers, and mediators. You'll learn about performance and rendering patterns such as server-side rendering and Islands architecture. You'll also learn how architectural patterns like MVC, MVP, and MVVM are useful from the perspective of a modern web application developer. This book explores: Architectural patterns for structuring your components and apps More than 20 design patterns in JavaScript and React, applicable for developers at any level Different pattern categories including creational, structural, and behavioral Essential performance patterns including dynamic imports and code-splitting Rendering patterns such as server-side rendering, hydration, Islands architecture, and more Additionally, you'll explore modern JavaScript syntax like JavaScript modules, React patterns like Hooks, higher-order components (HOCs), and more, to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of web development.

Christian Heilmann

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Christopher Murphy

Rachel Andrew

Nicholas C. Zakas

Mat Marquis

Vitaly Friedman

Paul Tero

Nishant Kothary

Tim Kadlec

Corey Vilhauer

Harry Roberts

Marko Dugonjić

The book is focused around practical techniques, strategies and approaches. Will feature valuable insights into large-scale projects, adaptive interfaces, customer support, user psychology and typography. Will also uncover smart front-end strategies, obscure back-end techniques and find out what it takes to improve website performance for faster and more robust apps.

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