--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 192" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 192 published_at: "2014-08-01" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/192" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 192 Eloquent JavaScript 2nd edition, ES6 generators, OCR, animations, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/192) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 192 — August 1, 2014[![Marijn Haverbeke\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/25509/125.jpg)](http://eloquentjavascript.net/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)[2nd Edition of Eloquent JavaScript Now Available Online](http://eloquentjavascript.net/) Marijn Haverbeke’s much loved _Eloquent JavaScript_ is back in a 2nd edition and, as before, [free to read online.](http://eloquentjavascript.net/) The [print book](http://www.nostarch.com/ejs2) will be out in November. Marijn Haverbeke [AngularJS Unit Testing - For Real, Though](http://quickleft.com/blog/angularjs-unit-testing-for-real-though) When Ben Lewis began to use Angular he was keen to keep his TDD approach going but struggled to find many resources to help. Here, he presents a lot of advice and examples based on his efforts to maintain a good TDD workflow with Angular development. Quick Left [![New Relic\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/18688/125.png)](http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/03/13/javascript-error-reporting-ajax-timing-new-relic/?utm_source=COOP=email=BlogNRBrowserAnnounce=PeterCooperNL=EM-COOP-generic-EN-100-HTML5Weekly-BlogNRBrowserAnnounce)[Announcing JS Error Reporting + AJAX Timing in New Relic](http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/03/13/javascript-error-reporting-ajax-timing-new-relic/?utm_source=COOP=email=BlogNRBrowserAnnounce=PeterCooperNL=EM-COOP-generic-EN-100-HTML5Weekly-BlogNRBrowserAnnounce) Currently, 1.2m domains use the New Relic Browser monitoring tools to maintain a comprehensive overview of their browser page load times, throughput, browser transactions, JavaScript errors and Ajax timing. Find out how real-time insights help people build better performing software with New Relic. New RelicSponsor [Diving Deeper With ES6 Generators](http://davidwalsh.name/es6-generators-dive) The latest in an ongoing series of posts about [ES6 generators](http://davidwalsh.name/es6-generators) on David Walsh’s blog. Kyle Simpson [3 New (Draft) JavaScript APIs You May Want to Follow](http://www.sitepoint.com/3-new-javascript-apis-may-want-follow/) The Web Alarms API provides access to a device’s alarm settings, the Presentation API helps you take advantage of secondary displays, and the Standby API lets you request a screen remain awake and avoid power-saving states. SitePoint [Immutable Data Collections for JavaScript](https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js) Provides Sequence, Range, Repeat, Map, OrderedMap, Set and a sparse Vector by using lazy sequences and hash maps tries. Facebook Jobs - [Principal JavaScript Developer (London)](http://www.teamsandtechnology.com/jobs?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)Help change the world of music. 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You decide where to work. underdog.io In Brief [Towards PhantomJS 2](http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2014/07/towards-phantomjs-2.html) news Ariya Hidayat [TJ Holowaychuk Passes Sponsorship of Express to StrongLoop](http://strongloop.com/strongblog/tj-holowaychuk-sponsorship-of-express/) news More about this in [this week's Node Weekly.](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/46) StrongLoop [Swift for JavaScript Developers](http://realm.io/news/swift-for-javascript-developers/) video A 50 minute presentation with slides and written notes for Apple's new 'Swift' language. Realm [Live Editing AngularJS Apps with Facebook Flo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL3ZJ0ApCR4) video Mihai Valentin [Best Practices for Building Angular.js Apps without Browserify or Require.js](http://modernweb.com/2014/07/28/best-practices-building-angular-js-apps) tutorial ModernWeb [Testing Private Functions in JavaScript Modules](http://engineering.clever.com/2014/07/29/testing-private-functions-in-javascript-modules/) tutorial Jonah Kagan [React.js and How Does It Fit In With Everything Else?](http://www.funnyant.com/reactjs-what-is-it/) tutorial Craig McKeachie [Building Applications for Firefox OS using AngularJS](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/07/building-applications-for-firefox-os-using-angularjs/) tutorial Mozilla Hacks [Basic Inheritance with JavaScript Constructors](http://designpepper.com/blog/drips/basic-inheritance-with-javascript-constructors.html) tutorial A Drip of JavaScript [Using ReactJS and KendoUI Together](http://www.ifandelse.com/using-reactjs-and-kendoui-together/) tutorial Jim Cowart [Here's The Difference Between Polymer and Angular](http://www.binpress.com/blog/2014/06/26/polymer-vs-angular/) Binpress [5 JavaScript APIs to Empower Your Mobile Web Pages](http://www.sitepoint.com/5-javascript-apis-empower-mobile-web-pages/) SitePoint [Airbnb's JavaScript Style Guide](https://github.com/airbnb/javascript) code AirBnB [Circliful: A jQuery Plugin Providing Animated Progress Circles](http://longren.io/circliful-a-jquery-plugin-providing-animated-progress-circles/) code Tyler Longren [jstinytest: Tiniest Simplest Unit Testing Library for JavaScript](https://github.com/joewalnes/jstinytest) code Joe Walnes [GHCJS: A Haskell to JavaScript Compiler](https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs) code GHCJS [overmind: Easy Module Isolation and Lazy Loading for Angular Apps](https://github.com/geddski/overmind) code Dave Geddes [blockies:](https://github.com/download13/blockies) [Flux: Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces](https://github.com/facebook/flux) code Architecture for React using a unidirectional data flow. 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