Reddit mentions of Dom Enlightenment

I was literally in the same boat last year... The interwebs also told me to go learn JS first... i'm glad I decided to learn JS first! Some things I would recommend that helped me:

Eloquent JavaScript
This will help fill in any gaps of knowledge quickly.

DOM Enlightenment
A small book on learning the DOM (sans jQuery).

Maintainable JS
Interesting talk on writing good JS

Professional JavaScript
A very in depth book about JS, if you read this and absorb it... you'll be on your way to guru status on the language ;)

OK but I don't think you need to know the inner workings of browsers to manipulate the DOM.

OP is probably looking for something like this: https://www.amazon.com/DOM-Enlightenment-Exploring-JavaScript-Modern/dp/1449342841

Yeah I have read around 70%-80% of all YDKJS books combined .

By the way just in any case you find anything interesting and helpful (but for also copy pasting this list in the future) here are the books-site tutorials-docs that I am reading-have read-plan to read-follow :

web dev road map

htmldog

www.javascript.info

css in depth (manning)

eloquent js

YDKJS (all books)

HTML5 for masterminds

dom enlightenment

high performance images

web performance in action

reliable javascript

building progressive web apps

http: the definitive guide

learning http 2

cracking the coding interview

javascript data structure and algorithms (be careful,not a good choice, it has a lot of mistakes but I find it concise)

professional git

vs code docs

Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

refactoring ui

figma docs

react docs

redux docs

vue docs

webpack docs

clean code

design patterns

web components in action

Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program

and many more to come .