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JavaScript Garden
=================

2024 update: this project has not been actively maintained in years. The original author
[took the site down](https://github.com/BonsaiDen/JavaScript-Garden/commit/93278fbcafa569fd193f8784abc267e9db09c645)
in 2022 (no judgement - updating it would be a big project!). At that point it was already long out of date, e.g. missing
the new language features from ES6 onwards.

Many excellent modern guides exist, e.g. [Eloquent Javascript](https://eloquentjavascript.net/), or
the [MDN guide](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript).

Thanks for all the maintainers and translators over the years!

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**JavaScript Garden** is a growing collection of documentation about the most
quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to
avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad
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[many others](https://github.com/BonsaiDen/JavaScript-Garden/graphs/contributors)
who've worked hard to provide translations or fixes.

It's currently maintained by [Tim Ruffles](http://twitter.com/timruffles).
It was maintained by [Tim Ruffles](http://twitter.com/timruffles) from 2013-2020ish.

## Contributing

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