Paul Krill presents a detailed interview with TC39 committee member Jafar Husain, a technical lead at Netflix, about what’s coming up for ECMAScript with both ES6 and ES7.
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Presented as part of Angular’s design docs, AtScript is a TypeScript-esque idea for an enhanced version of JavaScript with type introspection and type, field, and metadata annotations. Angular 2.0 will be built on AtScript.
Misko Hevery and Rob Eisenberg
An excellent tutorial from Google’s Eric Bidelman going through how to build a fully-featured, responsive single page app using Polymer.
Eric Bidelman
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A look at the roadmap for TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that adds optional static typing and class based OO, through 1.3, 1.4, and on to 2.0.
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Looks at JavaScript code you supply, detects the use of 96 different APIs or features, and shows info on how well they’re supported across browsers.
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Node v0.10.33 (Stable) Released news node
Handles the recent POODLE vulnerability by disabling SSLv2/SSLv3 by default.
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Proposal for a Node.js Advisory Board news node Joyent
Nginx Has Big Plans for JavaScript news
Nginx plans to use JS within more flexible configuration setups.
InfoWorld
WebStorm 9 Released: Meteor Support, React and JSX, Gulp Integration, and More news JetBrains
An Introduction to Ember.js Class with the Ember Creators news
It costs money but is about as authoritative as it gets.
Gaslight
Espruino Pico: JavaScript on a USB Stick news
A Kickstarter project to create a USB key that runs JavaScript and can be integrated with other electronics.
Kickstarter
Rendering with React and JSX: Getting Started tutorial Patrick Mulder
Preparing for ECMAScript 6: Set and WeakSet tutorial SitePoint
Binding Data with Object.observe tutorial
A look at what’s involved in implementing a simple data-binding framework of your own using Object.observe.
Yanis
Using React.js to Draw Dynamic SVGs tutorial John Biesnecker
Creating a Downloadable File in the Browser from JavaScript tutorial Chris West
The Basic Anatomy of an Ember Application
David Hayes
Model-View-Intent and the Virtual DOM (slide deck)
Andre Medeiros
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