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There are 3 books on software development in Javascript. I view JS as an inferior language, not just for semantics, but because it's origins are troublesome for me. JS started as a language to provide interactivity to web pages. Contrast that to C#, which started as a general purpose language with serious minds working on it.

Is it worth reading JS based software engineering / design books, as compared to Code Complete or The Pragmatic Programmer?

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I don't think it's worth reading the JS books in your case actually. I think I was also trying to talk about the different types of tech books I've seen; meanwhile, also talk about the books that directly impacted me. I'd recommend books focused on C# that cause you to really deep dive into the language or ones that flip the language semantics on their head a bit. It's always great to see other paradigms and what you can pull from them.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-good/978...

^ Speaks directly to your viewpoint.

That book is over a decade old now. Javascript and best practices have changed so much since then I don't think it is much help.

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