JavaScript Weekly
Issue 202 — October 10, 2014
Dives into a CSS layout debugger (delivered as a one-liner bookmarklet) by Addy Osmani to look at the various JavaScript tricks used inside.
Javier Márquez

Covers a diverse range of ideas from directory structure to controller bloat and scoping.
Mark Meyer

Patrick Catanzariti presents an overview of the various devices that communicate with or that use JavaScript, including Leap Motion, the Oculus Rift, and Tessel.
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Colin describes the let keyword, destructuring assignment, default parameters, rest parameters, and more, as ECMAScript 6’s ‘quick wins’ you should know about.
Colin Toh

Sebastian McKenzie

Strap on your VR helmet and code in a 3D environment. The video demo on YouTube is fun.
Brian Peiris

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In Brief

'As of today, all new Angular releases are published to npm.' news
Brian Ford

Creating Progressively Enhanced UI Elements with JavaScript tutorial
Dudley Storey

JavaScript Best Practices tutorial
Adapted from a popular slide deck by Mozilla’s Christian Heilmann.
Thinkful

Building HTML5 Form Validation Bubble Replacements tutorial
Telerik Developer Network

The Definitive Guide to JavaScript Generators tutorial
Gajus Kuizinas

Mary Rose Cook Live-Codes A JavaScript Game From Scratch video
Mary Rose Cook

Implementing Promises - A Live Coding Session with Remy Sharp video
YouTube

ECMAScript 6 Promises (2/2): The API 
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

JavaScript Battle: A Daily AI Battle 
Hack Reactor

JavaScript Unit Testing: Guiding Principles and Common Excuses 
Matt Harrington

Introducing Leche: A JavaScript Testing Utility for Mocha and Sinon code
Box Tech

Nightmare: A High Level Wrapper for Phantomjs code
Designed for automating tasks across sites that don’t have APIs.
Segment

Simple.Timer: A Timer Plugin for jQuery code
Carlos Souza

FKit: Another Functional Programming Library for JavaScript code
Provides developers with functional programming ‘building blocks’ that can be used to write more expressive code.
Josh Bassett

imgix.js: A Library for Responsive Images code
Code dependency free, extensive documentation, though it does rely on a specific image hosting service.
Zebrafish Labs

JS-Interpreter Demo: A Sandboxed JS Interpreter Written in JS code
Neil Fraser

react-hn: A React-Powered Hacker News Frontend (using the new HN API) code
Jonathan Buchanan

Inverse.js: A Dead-Simple JavaScript IoC Container code
Michael Cordingley

JuliusJS: A Speech Recognition Library for The Web code
Zach Pomerantz

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