Henrik Joreteg shares his opinions on the pros and cons of Angular.js, Ember, React, Polymer, and Backbone, as well as not using a framework at all. Heed Addy Osmani's advice for trying things for yourself too, of course.
Henrik Joreteg
Analyzes the plain objects of a JavaScript library by finding the relationships between the library entry point and objects/functions linked to it. Complete with visualizations of notable JavaScript libraries like jQuery and D3. Code here.
Mauricio Poppe
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The folks at a Calgary JavaScript meetup discussed some of JavaScript’s quirks and oddities. Here, you can enjoy the original talk by David Luecke and Eric Kryski, as well as read a writeup of what they dug into.
David Luecke
Enables applications to store data locally while offline, then synchronize it with CouchDB and compatible servers when the application is back online.
Calvin Metcalf
Nicolas Bevacqua dives into the task of choosing a JavaScript Build System. He compares the big three: Grunt, Gulp and NPM and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of each.
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V8 Intent to Implement: ES6 Classes news
“we believe now is the right time to proceed with ES6 classes’ implementation [in V8]”
blink-dev
Famo.us Raises $25M to Drive Rapid Adoption of Its JavaScript Framework news
Recode
The js13kGames HTML5 and JavaScript Game Development Competition Has Begun news
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CFP for BackboneConf 2014 is Open (Dec 15-16 in Cambridge, MA) news
Accelerate your Mobile (Web) Application with the GPU video
David Arel
Building A 7-Segment LED Digital Clock with Johnny-Five, Arduino and JavaScript tutorial
Bocoup
Rewriting 'Yo' in React and Firebase tutorial
David Chang
Angular's Isolate Scopes Explained tutorial
Alex Ford
The Many Ways To Use ngClass (the AngularJS directive) tutorial
Scotch.io
Adding Clarity to Scope Inheritance in Angular tutorial
Jonathan Creamer
Auto Instance Via 'use strict'
Andrea Giammarchi
jquery-aim: jQuery Plugin Which Guesses Which Element User Is Going to Be Hovered/Clicked code
cihadturhan
gif.js: JavaScript GIF Encoding Library code
Uses typed arrays and web workers to render each frame in the background.
Johan Nordberg
Introducing Amygdala, A JavaScript REST Client code
Define your schema, API settings and you’re ready to go. Inspired by hood.ie.
Marco Louro
Unfluff: Automatic Web Page Content Extractor for Node.js code
Adam Geitgey
pjs: Pipeable JavaScript; Quickly Filter, Map, and Reduce From The Terminal code
Daniel St. Jules
promisify_require.js: Enhances RequireJS 'require' with the Promises API code
Anton Ivanov
DOM Comparator: JS Lib That Analyzes the Difference Between Two HTML Strings code
Himanshu Kapoor
Pegasus: Display Data Faster in Single Page Apps code
A small script that lets you load data while still loading other scripts.
typicode
Vide: jQuery Plugin for Easy Video Backgrounds code
Ilya Makarov
Announcing JS Error Reporting + AJAX Timing in New Relic
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