---
title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 227"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 227
published_at: "2015-04-10"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/227"
---

This week's JavaScript news, issue 227

This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/227)

JavaScript WeeklyIssue 227 — April 10, 2015[The Original jQuery Source Code, Annotated by John Resig](http://genius.it/ejohn.org/files/jquery-original.html) Lots of interesting tidbits and bits of history in here. Click on the highlighted pieces of code to bring up the annotation.  Genius 
[The Mind-Boggling Universe of JS Module Strategies](https://www.airpair.com/javascript/posts/the-mind-boggling-universe-of-javascript-modules) A look at the foundations of different JS module strategies including creating them ad-hoc, or using CommonJS, AMD or ES6. Also shows how to get started with ES6 modules right now.  Tiago Romero Garcia 
[Bridge.NET: Write C#, Run JavaScript](http://bridge.net/) The latest in a [long line](https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS#c-f-net-related-languages) of open source toolkits to let you build platform independent apps using C#.  Object.NET 
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[Deploying ECMAScript 6](http://www.2ality.com/2015/04/deploying-es6.html) “What options do you have for using ECMAScript 6 today?” asks Axel Rauschmayer, before showing off transpilers, REPLs, module systems and more.  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer 
[xto6: Transpiles Your ES5 Code into Readable ES6](https://mohebifar.github.io/xto6/) Basically does the opposite of Babel (a.k.a. 6to5).  Mohamad Mohebifar 
[Autocompeter: Fast AJAX Autocomplete Service & Widget](https://autocompeter.com/) Uses a Go-powered backend, with JavaScript for the frontend. Use their backend server or run up your own. All open source.  Peter Bengtsson 
[Reactive Apps with AWS Lambda](https://www.airpair.com/lambda/posts/aws-lambda-stream-processing) Lambda is an Amazon Web Service that runs JavaScript in response to events letting you create back-end services where compute resources are automatically engaged.  Ryan Brown 


Jobs

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In Brief

[The JS1k 2015 Winner: A Defender Clone](http://js1k.com/2015-hypetrain/demo/2306) news demo 
A clone of the classic arcade shooter Defender in just 1023 bytes.
Keith Clark

[AngularConnect, A European Angular Conference in London, Oct 20-21](http://angularconnect.com/) news 
Much of the official team will be there.

[JS Testing Workshop Online with David Mosher and Justin Searls](https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/javascript-testing/) course 
We are writing increasingly complex applications in JS in the browser and server-side. Learn how to test it all in JS.
Frontend MastersSponsor

[Practical TypeScript Development with Gulp and Sublime Text 3](https://www.airpair.com/typescript/posts/typescript-development-with-gulp-and-sublime-text) tutorial
Peter Grman

[Getting Started with Node.js and Mocha](https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-with-node-js-and-mocha) tutorial node
Igor Šarčević

[Create a Browser-Based Photobooth with JavaScript, PHP and Twilio](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/03/create-a-browser-based-photobooth-with-javascript-php-and-twilio.html) tutorial
Ricky Robinett

[Understanding ECMAScript 6: Class and Inheritance](http://www.noupe.com/development/understanding-ecmascript-6-class-and-inheritance-90966.html) tutorial
Noupe

[A Trick for Detecting Minified JavaScript Code](https://blog.mariusschulz.com/2015/04/08/detecting-minified-javascript-code) 
Marius Schulz

[Straightening Our Backbone: A Lesson in Event-Driven UI Development](https://code.mixpanel.com/2015/04/08/straightening-our-backbone-a-lesson-in-event-driven-ui-development/) tutorial
Mixpanel Engineering

[ST-JS: Strongly-Typed JavaScript via Java](http://st-js.github.io/) tools 
‘Borrowing Java’s Syntax to write type-safe JavaScript’, ST-JS is essentially a Java to JavaScript transpiler.
Alexandru Craciun, Eyal Kaspi

[Know JavaScript? Build Mobile Apps Using Your Web Skills.](http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/platform/webdev?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=javascriptweeklyr&utm_campaign=dc-platform-webdev-mar15&utm_content=sponsoredlinkapr10) tools 
AppBuilder combines the tools you need to build, test deploy mobile apps to iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
TelerikSponsor

[10 Tools And Templates For Quality jQuery Mobile Development](https://scotch.io/bar-talk/10-blissful-bootstraps-tools-and-templates-for-quality-jquery-mobile-development) tools
Scotch.io

[10 JavaScript Diagram Drawing Libraries](http://modeling-languages.com/javascript-drawing-libraries-diagrams/) tools
Hamza Ed-Douibi

[One Developer's First Impressions of Angular2](http://blog.mgechev.com/2015/04/06/angular2-first-impressions/) opinion
Minko Gechev

[JavaScript Will Lead A Massive Shift in Enterprise Development](http://www.infoworld.com/article/2907190/javascript/javascript-will-lead-a-massive-shift-in-enterprise-development.html) opinion
InfoWorld

[angular-formly: JavaScript-Powered Forms for AngularJS](https://github.com/formly-js/angular-formly) code 
Has some [good docs](http://docs.angular-formly.com/) too.
FormlyJS

[Cylon.js (JS Robotics Framework) 1.0 Released](http://cylonjs.com/blog/2015/04/08/cylon-1.0.0/) code 
A JS robotics framework that works with devices on 35 platforms.
Cylon

[Markdownify: A Simple Markdown Editor jQuery Plugin](https://tibastral.github.io/markdownify/) code 
With built-in Cloudinary-based image upload support. Uses CodeMirror behind the scenes.
Thibaut Assus

[Babylon.js: A Framework for Building 3D Games with HTML5 and WebGL](https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js) code
BabylonJS

[Numeric JavaScript: A Numerical Computation Library](http://numericjs.com/) code 
Not new (last commit was in 2012!) but supports [a ton of operations](http://numericjs.com/documentation.html) relating to trig, matrices, logic, FFT, and more.
Sébastien Loisel

[AngularJS-Boilerplate: Kickstart an Angular Project with Sass and Gulp Tasks](https://github.com/jbutko/AngularJS-Boilerplate) code
Jozef Butko

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