The JavaScripter's Handbook

The JavaScripter's Handbook provides an introduction to writing JavaScript for the OTHER media, as well as articulating our development philosophy and providing practical advice about coding style and performance.

The book is simply written as a series of Markdown files, and the HTML version is generated using the Jekyll static site generator. To install Jekyll, assuming you already have Ruby and Rubygems, just run

[sudo] gem install jekyll

New chapters must have YAML front matter with the following fields:

• layout: the layout file, usually article;
• title: the title of the chapter;
• previous: the previous chapter;
• next: the next chapter.

They must also be added to the table of contents in the home.html layout file; a .html suffix must be used rather than .md.