What's the K&R for JavaScript?
Yes, I know JS The Good Parts but there's so much noise out there about best practice, memory mgmnt etc. What's the bible right now? If K&R doesn't mean anything to you - you're young and haven't programmed in C.
Honestly, the most useful reading for me has been the annotated source to Backbone and Underscore. Amazing that he wrote it, even more amazing that he annotated it. Guy's a genius.
http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html
If you want raw unassailable reference docs (to learn js from the ground floor in comprehensive detail) you can't go wrong reading the standards:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...
The rest you kinda gotta cull from various resources. learn.jquery.com is nice and Mozilla kicks ass, as usual: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Information about ES6 generators and other stuff coming down the pipe seems to be scattered all over the place. Best resource I've found seems to be this one:
http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html
Though promisejs.org and promisesaplus.com are worth browsing.
To me, "The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript" by the same author is the equivalent of K&R. Just don't be misled by the title, it covers the functional aspects of JavaScript as good as any other book and does not push for object-oriented programming as the one true way at all.
K&R is canonical because in 1978 books were the way programming language information was distributed. It was a different time. Hell, in 1979 Godel Escher Bach won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Can you imagine the general public reading something that challenging for fun these days?
On the flip side, most programming books are more informative than what is essentially a specification. The industry has come a long way.
The relationship between "Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction" and "general public reading [...] for fun" has always been pretty distant.