How to read the ECMAScript specification

The ECMAScript Language specification (a.k.a. the
JavaScript specification, or ECMA-262) is a great resource for learning the
intricacies of how JavaScript works. However, it is a huge text that can be
confusing and intimidating at first.

This document aims to make it easier to get
started with reading the ECMAScript spec.

Helping out

The HTML document is generated using
Bikeshed, a document preprocessor. The
source file is located in index.bs. Feel free to improve this document by
submitting pull request that change this file.

To view the result of any changes to index.bs, you can locally regenerate
index.html by installing
Bikeshed first, and then running make from the project root directory.

If you do not want to install Bikeshed locally, then make will still work, by
uploading your local copy of index.bs to
api.csswg.org which will then run Bikeshed
remotely. This process may produce a slightly different output than locally
installed Bikeshed, as it does not take into account the customized .include
files.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License, which is available at
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Parts of this work may be from
another specification document. If so, those parts are instead covered by the
license of that specification document.