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title: "I just realised you can read You Don't Know JS Yet: Get Started by Kyle Simpson on his GitHub for free, as Markdown. This book is one of my favourite \"textbooks\" to this day. It is fun, it's different ✨🙈. Go check it out, and if you like it, you can even support him by buying the ebook format."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-just-realised-you-can-read-you-don-t-know-js-yet-get-started-by-kyle-simpson-on-his-github-for-fr-zcm6azhhg
source_url: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/2nd-ed/get-started/README.md
type: share
source: "Web Dev Odyssey"
author: "Kata Benedek"
published: 2025-08-14T16:01:55.978Z
updated: 2025-08-14T16:02:26.628Z
tags: ["javascript"]
upvotes: 214
comments: 9
language: en
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# I just realised you can read You Don't Know JS Yet: Get Started by Kyle Simpson on his GitHub for free, as Markdown. This book is one of my favourite "textbooks" to this day. It is fun, it's different ✨🙈. Go check it out, and if you like it, you can even support him by buying the ebook format.

**[Web Dev Odyssey](https://daily.dev/sources/webdevodyssey)** · [@katabenedek](https://daily.dev/katabenedek) · 214 upvotes · 9 comments

## Summary

The You Don't Know JS book series by Kyle Simpson provides an in-depth exploration of JavaScript fundamentals and advanced concepts. The series aims to help developers truly understand the language beyond surface-level knowledge, covering core mechanisms and behaviors that many developers overlook.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/2nd-ed/get-started/README.md>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@thecookingsenpai** · 4 upvotes

> Free culture is always stellar

**@qwertydiy** · 4 upvotes

> Kyle Simpson also has a similar version on Frontend Masters called Deep Javascript Foundations and Javascript: The Recent Parts (not to mention the other 6 courses he has). The former enlightened me a lot on JS' "weirdness".

**@bobyficher** · 3 upvotes

> This is one of the best book i read.
> It simply allowed me to think from a different perspective.
> The detailing on `this`, `document`, `objects` etc was always a game changer for me.

**@id10terr0r** · 2 upvotes

> Awesome, thank you for the share.

**@ozeassantos** · 2 upvotes

> I remember when I knwowed this books series, changes my mind about JS. Thanks a lot Kile!!

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