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title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 203"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 203
published_at: "2014-10-17"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/203"
---

This week's JavaScript news, issue 203

Angular 1.3 released, 23rd century JS architecture, an introduction to D3.js, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/203)

JavaScript WeeklyIssue 203 — October 17, 2014[AngularJS 1.3.0 Released](http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2014/10/angularjs-130-superluminal-nudge.html) After 8 months and over 2000 commits, the latest version of the popular framework is here, now including [one-time bindings](http://blog.thoughtram.io/angularjs/2014/10/14/exploring-angular-1.3-one-time-bindings.html), ngAria (improves accessibility), ngMessages, and more. IE 8 is no longer supported.  Google 
[Nunjucks: A Rich Templating Language for JavaScript from Mozilla](http://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/) 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](http://square.github.io/intro-to-d3/) 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 
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[JavaScript Architecture for the 23rd Century](http://modernweb.com/2014/10/15/javascript-architecture-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](http://www.nostarch.com/hemingwayjs) 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](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/10/09/announcing-key-advances-to-javascript-performance-in-windows-10-technical-preview.aspx) 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](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/introduction-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 


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In Brief

[React v0.12 RC Released](http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/10/16/react-v0.12-rc1.html) news
Facebook

[jQuery UI 1.11.2 Released](http://blog.jqueryui.com/2014/10/jquery-ui-1-11-2/) news
jQuery UI Blog

[Just over 1 week to submit a talk proposal for O'Reilly Fluent 2015](http://fluentconf.com/fluent2015/public/cfp/350) news
O'Reilly Media

[Building A Reading Time Widget with React and jQuery](http://biesnecker.com/2014/10/15/building-a-reading-time-widget-with-react-and-jquery/) tutorial
John Biesnecker

[Reading Images and Data Using Canvas and JavaScript](http://www.sitepoint.com/reading-images-data-using-canvas-javascript/) tutorial
SitePoint

[An SVG Analog Clock In 6 Lines of JavaScript](http://demosthenes.info/blog/943/An-SVG-Analog-Clock-In-6-Lines-of-JavaScript) tutorial
Dudley Storey

[An Introduction To Unit Testing In AngularJS Applications](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/10/07/introduction-to-unit-testing-in-angularjs/) tutorial
Smashing Magazine

[How to Write Highly Scalable and Maintainable JavaScript: Coupling](http://www.innoarchitech.com/scalable-maintainable-javascript-coupling/) tutorial
Alex Castrounis

[Building Angular Apps Using Flux Architecture](http://victorsavkin.com/post/99998937651/building-angular-apps-using-flux-architecture) tutorial

[ReactJS For Stupid People](http://blog.andrewray.me/reactjs-for-stupid-people/) tutorial

[Writing Ember.js Components with Ember CLI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVZXywVpP34) video
Joachim Haagen Skeie

[ES6 Generators: The Gnarly Bits](http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/10/Generators-the-Gnarly-Bits) 
HTML5 Rocks

[What’s Wrong with Angular.js](https://medium.com/este-js-framework/whats-wrong-with-angular-js-97b0a787f903) 
This got a strong reaction online, with Jeff Whelpley responding in [Defending AngularJS.](https://medium.com/@jeffwhelpley/defending-angularjs-bfb056f8af5e) The author then wrote [What I would recommend instead of Angular.js?](https://medium.com/este-js-framework/what-i-would-recommend-instead-of-angular-js-62b057d8a9e)
Daniel Steigerwald

[Anatomy of a JavaScript MV* Framework](http://www.sitepoint.com/anatomy-javascript-mv-framework/) 
SitePoint

[GopherJS: A Go to JavaScript Transpiler](https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs) tools 
For running Go code in a browser.
GopherJS

[Compare Code Similarity with jsinspect](http://dailyjs.com/2014/10/13/jsinspect/) tools
DailyJS

[esnext: Tomorrow’s JavaScript Syntax Today](http://esnext.github.io/esnext/) 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](https://github.com/kimmobrunfeldt/progressbar.js) 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](https://github.com/github/fetch) code 
A polyfill for the [Fetch API.](https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/)
GitHub

[coServ: A New, Lightweight MVC Web Framework for Node](http://www.coservjs.org/) code
GOCHARM

[FormatJS: A Collection of JS Libraries for Internationalization from Yahoo](http://formatjs.io/) 
On both client and server.
Yahoo

[React Primer: Short Annotated Examples of React Concepts](https://github.com/BinaryMuse/react-primer) code 
A repo designed to gently introduce developers into the world of React.
Brandon Tilley

[Angular Chart: Responsive Charts for Angular using Chart.js](http://jtblin.github.io/angular-chart.js/) code
Jerome Touffe-Blin

[A Web Audio API Synth for the DemoScene Written in Literate JavaScript](http://padenot.github.io/litsynth/) code
Paul Adenot

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