JavaScript Weekly Issue 203: October 17, 2014

JavaScript Weekly

Issue 203 — October 17, 2014

After 8 months and over 2000 commits, the latest version of the popular framework is here, now including one-time bindings, ngAria (improves accessibility), ngMessages, and more. IE 8 is no longer supported.

Google

Nunjucks: A Rich Templating Language for JavaScript from Mozilla

Mozilla has unveiled what it calls a ‘more sophisticated templating engine’ for JavaScript. Inspired by jinja2, it includes block inheritance, autoescaping, macros, and more, and the documentation is pretty good.

Mozilla

An Introduction to D3.js

D3 is a popular browser-based data visualization library and this is a great ‘how to get started’ tutorial (live editable code would make it even better).

Square

Frontend Masters

Scalable Modular Architecture in CSS (SMACSS) Online/In-Person Workshop

Does your CSS file go on for days and everybody on the team just tacks things onto the bottom? Join CSS architecture expert Jonathan Snook as he shares his experience building large sites with large teams writing more maintainable CSS.
Join us November 14th – attend online or in-person!

Frontend Masters Sponsor

JavaScript Architecture for the 23rd Century

The Starship Enterprise provides an amusing conceit to look at constructor patterns, IFFEs, file organization, AMD, and more.

Jonathan Creamer

If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, a Literary Take on JS

Angus Croll and No Starch Press have published If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, a book with a whimsical take on how famous wordsmiths would have written JavaScript. I’m told if you order by this Sunday (19th) with the code MARLIN you’ll get 30% off and a limited edition sticker.

No Starch Press

Key Advances for JS Performance in Windows 10

Microsoft's Chakra engine includes major advancements and is now formed of a an interpreter backed by a two-tier JIT compiler. This post digs into the details of how it benefits performance, complete with diagrams.

IEBlog

Improving Site Performance with the Navigation Timing API

The Navigation Timing API exposes properties that allow to get timing-related information for events related to the page loading.

Aurelio De Rosa

Jobs

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In Brief

React v0.12 RC Released news
Facebook

jQuery UI 1.11.2 Released news
jQuery UI Blog

Just over 1 week to submit a talk proposal for O'Reilly Fluent 2015 news
O'Reilly Media

Building A Reading Time Widget with React and jQuery tutorial
John Biesnecker

Reading Images and Data Using Canvas and JavaScript tutorial
SitePoint

An SVG Analog Clock In 6 Lines of JavaScript tutorial
Dudley Storey

An Introduction To Unit Testing In AngularJS Applications tutorial
Smashing Magazine

How to Write Highly Scalable and Maintainable JavaScript: Coupling tutorial
Alex Castrounis

Building Angular Apps Using Flux Architecture tutorial

ReactJS For Stupid People tutorial

Writing Ember.js Components with Ember CLI video
Joachim Haagen Skeie

ES6 Generators: The Gnarly Bits
HTML5 Rocks

What’s Wrong with Angular.js
This got a strong reaction online, with Jeff Whelpley responding in Defending AngularJS. The author then wrote What I would recommend instead of Angular.js?
Daniel Steigerwald

Anatomy of a JavaScript MV* Framework
SitePoint

GopherJS: A Go to JavaScript Transpiler tools
For running Go code in a browser.
GopherJS

esnext: Tomorrow’s JavaScript Syntax Today tools
JavaScript library for converting JavaScript written using the ES6 draft specification syntax to JavaScript that will work today.
Square

progressbar.js: Attractive, Responsive Progress Bars code
Provides built‐in shapes like lines, circles and squares but you can also create your own progress bars with any vector graphic editor.
Kimmo Brunfeldt

Fetch: A window.fetch JavaScript Polyfill code
A polyfill for the Fetch API.
GitHub

coServ: A New, Lightweight MVC Web Framework for Node code
GOCHARM

FormatJS: A Collection of JS Libraries for Internationalization from Yahoo
On both client and server.
Yahoo

React Primer: Short Annotated Examples of React Concepts code
A repo designed to gently introduce developers into the world of React.
Brandon Tilley

Angular Chart: Responsive Charts for Angular using Chart.js code
Jerome Touffe-Blin

A Web Audio API Synth for the DemoScene Written in Literate JavaScript code
Paul Adenot

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