JavaScript Weekly
Issue 231 — May 8, 2015
NativeScript is an open source, cross-platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) ‘truly native’ mobile app creation framework. There's also a look at Angular 2.0 running in a native app using the framework.
Telerik Developer Network

A well documented plugin, complete with demos. This could provide developers heavy into jQuery with an easy way to get on the data binding train without using another framework.
ermouth

Angular 2 is still under development, but some of the core concepts can already be investigated at this stage.
Victor Savkin

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Support for the ‘asm.js’ highly optimizable JavaScript subset has been one of the most requested items via Microsoft’s ‘Edge Developer Suggestion Box’.
Microsoft

Jeremy Ashkenas (of CoffeeScript and Backbone fame) with an interesting talk about transpilation and how it works at a technical level under the hood.
Jeremy Ashkenas

A new tool that can create 'hosted' multi-platform Web applications from a W3C Web App manifest using Apache Cordova as a polyfill where hosted web apps are not supported.
ManifoldJS

Jobs

  • ReactJS/Flux/JavaScript Developer (remote)We're building the next generation of online poster and graphic design tools with React, JavaScript and a great team. Awesome opportunity on a fun, challenging and different type of project. Interested in joining? Copirite
  • Full-Stack Engineer at Zaption (San Francisco, CA)Zaption is an education-technology company that makes interactive video tools for teachers. Solve real problems with Node, Knockout, and MongoDB. We're very small, venture-funded, and growing fast. Talk to us. Zaption
  • Front-end Engineer at Weebly (San Francisco, CA)Weebly is hiring Front-end Engineers and Ping Pong Masters. — Weebly seeks front-end experts who can help build features that will be utilized by tens of millions of users. Work in a creative environment where you'll be able to work on a variety of projects platforms with awesome peers. Weebly

In Brief

io.js 2.0 Released news
CodeSchool looks at 6 new features in the latest releae of the Node fork.
iojs.org

Come See the Future of App Development at TelerikNEXT Online news
Join us May 13 to see new Telerik developer products, and previews of solutions to be released this year.
Telerik  Sponsor

Ember.js' New Rendering Engine, Glimmer, is Now in a Canary Release news
Yehuda Katz

Revealing the Inner Workings of JavaScript's 'this' Keyword tutorial
SitePoint

The React.js Way: Flux Architecture with Immutable.js tutorial
Péter Márton

Understanding ECMAScript 6: Template Strings tutorial
SitePoint

Using Immutability in React tutorial
Christian Johansen

Building Large Scale Web Applications with TypeScript video
Jakub Jedryszek

Setting State in React video
A short video demoing setting state in React -- part of the new course with Ryan Florence.
Frontend Masters  Sponsor

The Future of Node video
Rod Vagg

The Rise of the Bully Pulpit in the Evolution of JavaScript opinion
Morris Singer

Let's Package jQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian Novella opinion
Christopher Allan Webber

The 15 Best JavaScript Charting Libraries tools
SitePoint

Ember Hearth: An OS X App to Manage Ember Projects tools
Create new projects, run a server, run tests, build, and more.
EmberTown

Registry in a Box: Get an npm Registry Mirror on a Local Network tools node
Bryan English

Quark Shell: Create Native-Like Mac Menubar Apps using HTML and JS tools code
HackPlan

Basket.js: Proof-of-Concept Script Loader That Caches Scripts with localStorage code
Karim Ali

Burger: A Minimal Hamburger Menu with Fullscreen Navigation code
Matthew Blode

Lovefield: A Cross-Browser SQL-like Query Engine from Google code
Google

React Asset Loader: Simple React Component for Loading Assets code
Juan Cabrera