React.js Conf has been taking place this week and one of the biggest reveals was ‘React Native’, a technology for building native iOS and Android apps with React. There’s also a second keynote that takes a deeper dive.
React.js Conf 2015
A great grab bag of new features with examples of each. Working with strings has gotten a lot better in ES6.
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In a whirlwind screencast tour, John Lindquist demonstrates building a simple app in 7 minutes.
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Rob left the Angular team to work on his own framework; Aurelia is the result. Highly modular, written in ES6, no external dependencies, and with long term support and stability as a goal.
Rob Eisenberg
“I’ll examine why many, if not most, enterprise JavaScript developers still need to care about ES3 and several strategies for developers who want to use ES5/ES6 features today”
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ES6 solves the problems CoffeeScript was trying to, says Blake.
Blake Williams
A list of technologies, learning resources, libraries, packages and more, all related to getting going with the popular real-time framework.
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lodash 3.0.0 (and 3.0.1) Released news
A popular JavaScript ‘utility’ library. There’s more info and examples on this blog post.
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PhantomJS 2.0 Released news
The core implementation has been switched to the more modern Qt 5. CoffeeScript support has been removed.
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React v0.13.0 Beta 1 Released news
A key change is you no longer need to use React.createClass to create React components and can instead use ES6 classes.
Sebastian Markbåge
The State of io.js news node
Mikeal Rogers
Creating Browser-Based Audio Applications Controlled by MIDI Hardware tutorial
Stéphane P. Péricat
Composing Synchronous and Asynchronous Functions in JavaScript tutorial
Erin Swenson-Healey
Writing AngularJS Apps Using ES6 tutorial
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Destructuring and parameter handling in ECMAScript 6 tutorial
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
From Map/Reduce to JavaScript Functional Programming tutorial
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Hjson: The Human JSON tools
A JSON-esque configuration file format that caters to humans and helps reduce the errors they make.
Christian Zangl
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AngularJS: One-Time vs Two-Way Data Binding opinion
Kody Peterson
Why I Ditched Angular for React opinion
Kumar Sanket
JavaScript and The Living ECMAScript Standard opinion
Andrea Giammarchi
require1k: A CommonJS Require/Module Loader for The Browser in 1KB code
Stuart Knightley
TheaterJS: A Typing Effect That Mimics Human Behavior code
Gabin Aureche
Salvattore: A jQuery Masonry Alternative with CSS-driven Configuration code
Rolando Murillo
texgen.js: A Procedural Texture Generator code
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Passenger-docker: Easy Docker Containers for Your Node Web Apps code node
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