It is an exciting time to be a JavaScript developer; technologies have matured, web browsers are more standardized, and there are new things to play with every day. JavaScript has become an established language, and the Web is the true open platform of today. We've seen the rise of single-page web applications, the proliferation of Model View Controller (MVC) frameworks, such as Backbone.js and AngularJS, the use of JavaScript on the server with Node.js, and even mobile applications created entirely with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS using technologies such as PhoneGap.

From its humble beginnings with handling HTML forms, to the massive applications of today, the JavaScript language has come very far, and with it, a number of tools have matured to ensure that you can have the same level of quality with it that you have with any other language.

This book is about the tools that keep you in control of your JavaScript development.