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You Don't Know JS

Education — ES6 & Beyond [Books]
Educationperpetualest. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 12, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 1418 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
amazon.com
edge
direct origin
server
Server
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

You Don't Know JS's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1491904240/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=krux-20&linkId=b20460e92b45bc0517bffe3cbd919646) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Grokking the Java Intervieweducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Laws of UX (The Book)educationsimilar80%40.00.0● live
The Art of R Programming:dev-toolstag-overlap80%16.00.0→ redirected
Introduction to Algorithmseducationsimilar80%40.0+9.6● live
Hello Web Designeducationsimilar80%40.00.0● live
Machines of Loving Graceeducationsimilar80%40.0+7.2● live
Web Interface handbookeducationsimilar80%44.00.0● live
The Official Ubuntu Bookeducationsimilar80%16.00.0→ redirected

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelperpetual
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:31Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1895redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:15Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer2094redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:11Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1813redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:14Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1219redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:13Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1123redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:07Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1165redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 13:52Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1323redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 13:40Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1527redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 15:46Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1142redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:24Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1555redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:20Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1494redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 10:35Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1062redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 10:34Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer96redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 09:41Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer2341redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · You Don't Know JS · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/you-don-t-know-js · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.