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Having found Nicholas Zakas' blog to be an excellent resource on JavaScript insights, I was very much looking forward to this book. The fact that he'd also enlisted a whole cast of frontend rock stars to contribute chapters didn't do much to damper my excitement, so I was childishly happy when the book finally knocked on my door! The title of the book is of course a throwback to Steve Souders' epitomous High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, released a few years back by the same publisher. In much the same way it covers all aspects of performance in its chosen realm. That book gained Souders much appraise for making the web developer community at large aware of the various performance issues connected to the frontend, and how & why optimizing time was better spent there than on the backend which had previously been the prime target for such efforts. Last year Souders piggybacked on that appraise by releasing a sequel titled Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers (EFWS), where he - along with a group of co-authors, including Zakas - delved even deeper into frontend performance. Souders' first book touched on JavaScrip

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Author
Nicholas C Zakas; Mary E Treseler
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780596802790
Category
reference
Subjects
Computer Science, Language Learning, Fiction
Rating
4.03 / 5 (463 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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