December 16, 2015

JSter #60 - December (part 1)

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Make const, not var.

The book keeps progressing. SurviveJS 1.9.15 (http://survivejs.com/blog/survivejs1915/) incorporates a nice amount of improvements. It’s likely the last release before 2.0. After that the cycle can begin again.

** Libraries

• Angular 2 Beta (http://angularjs.blogspot.fi/2015/12/angular-2-beta.html)

** Articles

• Pure JavaScript vs. lodash, and the importance of decision-making in programming (http://www.maxpagels.com/2015/11/25/pure-javascript-vs-lodash-and-the-importance-of-decision-making-in-programming/)
• JavaScript Frameworks and Mobile Performance (http://tomdale.net/2015/11/javascript-frameworks-and-mobile-performance/)
• Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source (https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/12/05/open-source-chakra-core/)
• Ember.js - Functional Programming and the Observer Effect (https://emberway.io/ember-js-functional-programming-and-the-observer-effect-48901c3b84d7)

** Tutorials

• Exploring Elm - Part 1 (http://www.christianalfoni.com/articles/2015_11_30_Exploring-Elm-part1)
• Let’s Make a (D3) Plugin (http://bost.ocks.org/mike/d3-plugin/)
• Building a CDN Reporting Application with Webpack & React (https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/cdn-reporting-application-webpack-react/)

** Techniques

• Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture (https://medium.com/google-developers/instant-loading-web-apps-with-an-application-shell-architecture-7c0c2f10c73)
• vasanthk/async-javascript (https://github.com/vasanthk/async-javascript) - Evolution of Asynchronous JavaScript
• Offline Web Apps on GitHub Pages (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/11/offline-web-apps-on-github-pages/)
• Offline Recipes for Service Workers (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/11/offline-service-workers/)
• Loading Web Fonts with the Web Font Loader (https://css-tricks.com/loading-web-fonts-with-the-web-font-loader/)

** Resources

• What Web Can Do Today (https://whatwebcando.today/)

** Tools

• CodeceptJS (http://codecept.io/) - E2E testing for Node.js.
• wekan/wekan (https://github.com/wekan/wekan) - The open-source Trello-like kanban built with Meteor

** Demos

• Pokedex.org (https://www.pokedex.org/)

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