Ask HN: Practical book about modern front end dev?

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10 years ago

Frontend design is totally overwhelming for a backend guy. Yes, Bootstrap is a good start, but as soon as JavaScript enters the room, everything gets totally complicated. There are simply too many tools and abbreviations and I always get stuck quickly. I wish there was a book with a step-by-step project to follow that shows and uses a consistent set of tools (and does not compare tools which do a similar job). I want it to be as practical as possible.

I like VueJS and have a feeling that Webpack might help with many problems, but am actually open to everything that shows good practices and advancing with a project that interacts with an API of some sorts from simple to advanced.

I checked a couple of books, but did not find them to be fitting:

- Frontend Fundamentals, https://leanpub.com/front-end-fundamentals - Introduction to Modern Front End Development, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920043195.do, not even a book - Book of Modern Frontend Tooling, http://tooling.github.io/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling/

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