I'm in a similar boat. For Javascript, I found http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-Activate-Guides/dp/0596805527 http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript

I'm in a similar boat. For Javascript, I found http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-Activate-Guides/dp/0596805527 http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-Activate-G... to be a good place if you have little to no familiarity of Javascript. For Node, I'm using the links suggested here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-started-with-node-js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-star.... For Angular, I've just followed the documentation on angularjs.org and tried applying it to various web projects that I have already. I feel that there are a lot more projects in pure JS compared to CoffeeScript that even if you did learn CoffeeScript, you can't avoid encountering pure JS.