Can anyone recommend books for a rock solid js/meteor foundation?

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I’ve been messing around with Meteor and I love it. I’ve done the research. I have faith in its scalability. I have faith in Mongo. I’m totally sold.

What I’m not sold on is me. I’m not comfortable hacking js and meteor to make things work. I want to take the time to learn everything correctly and get a solid foundation. I also want to know more about Repositories, Contracts, Facades, Constructors, Setters (Setter Injection), Interfaces, Class / Function differences, Handlers, Bindings, Factories, etc.

Assuming I’m going to order books online…what are your “MUST READ” books for javascript, meteor, node, mongodb, and programming in general?

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Meteor has one that I can think of.
https://www.discovermeteor.com

Not a book but a very good resource:
https://bulletproofmeteor.com

Bulletproof will go through everything that you need from frontend to mongo and tell you how to do all of it efficiently.

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I’ll comment on some of the non meteor parts

The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford - for solid understanding of JavaScript

Asynchronous Javascript by Trevor Burnham - great for diving deeper into understanding the async parts of js

Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans - learn about design patterns and modeling things for use with those design patterns
if you want to go deeper into the design pattern part:

  • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

This blog post by a linkedin engineer https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying

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I learned a lot from “Javascript Patterns” by Stoyan Stefanov

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Discover Meteor helped me get a great foundation on it. I am wanting to work through this in the near future: https://github.com/benstr/meteoric-projects

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@khamoud I purchased Discover Meteor. Great resource. I’ll check out Bullet Proof. Thanks!

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The Good Parts was 2008. Should I still get it?
I’ve added the other two to my wishlist. Thanks!

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On the list. Thank you.

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Evented Mind Video courses for javascript and Meteor , a great place to Learn .Chris Mather the author there is a game saver, you will love the way he teaches every bit of it.

Also, its a good practice to find someone who can pair praogram with you, you know like, learn together , This gives you a chance to understand things more efficiently and break any programming wall you face, together .

Discover Meteor is a great Book , but my understanding is to start with a small project, so that you can build confidence and learn some basics without getting overwhelmed with too much info and large projects .

I am a beginner in Meteor as well. My path is -

  1. David Turnball course - ebook , video course .(Completed)
  2. Chris Mather’s Evented Mind Courses (Completed first two courses)
  3. Discover Meteor (Pending)
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I wrote Rapid Learning Meteor as a collection of tutorials that I made while learning Meteor.

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That article would also help you out: http://joshowens.me/getting-started-with-meteor-js/