A great 30 minute talk by Elijah Manor showing off a variety of code smells (a symptom in source code of other underlying problems) and possible resolutions for them.
Elijah Manor
Short, useful functions aimed at front-end developers to do things like match a selector, get an absolute URL, or prevent a callback from being called multiple times within a certain timeframe.
David Walsh
ES6 lets us use three different explicit variable declaration techniques: var, let and const. Reg digs into their use and sees when they can replace one another.
Reg Braithwaite
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Babel mostly transpiles ES6 code into ES5 code that can run in today’s browsers, but also performs other optimizations. This post includes a compelling example of why it’s such a big deal.
Charles Pick
Jack sees pre-compilation becoming the default, the rise of libraries over frameworks, the popularity of ES7, and more.
Jack Franklin
Enabled in the latest Chrome, the Web MIDI API is here to play with. Here’s a quick look at how to do that from JavaScript.
Keith McMillen Instruments
A chat about Visual Studio’s recently improved Node.js support followed by a practical dive into creating a deploying an Express app using VS. (40 minutes.)
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JSON API 1.0 Declared Stable news
A specification for APIs that use JSON.
Dan Gebhardt
Power Surge: An HTML5 Game Optimization Challenge from Firefox news Mozilla Hacks
ES6 In Depth: Destructuring tutorial Mozilla Hacks
Easy AngularJS Forms with angular-formly tutorial Ryan Chenkie
ES7 Function Bind Syntax tutorial Jeremy Fairbank
Using Polymer WebComponents with Angular.js tutorial Josh Crowther
Detecting Unminifiable Angular Code tutorial Marius Schulz
Introduction to ES6 Promises: 4 Functions You Need To Avoid Callback Hell tutorial James K Nelson
An Introduction to Ember.js video
A complete 90 minute live coding exercise.
Jamie White
Setting State in React video A short video demoing setting state in React -- part of the new course with Ryan Florence. Frontend Masters Sponsor
Is ReactJS Really Fast? opinion Boris Dinkevich
WatchBench: Build Apple Watch Apps in JavaScript tools
Seemingly a US only iOS app for now.
Alpha Software
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J2C: JavaScript to CSS Compiler tools code
A CSS preprocessor based around JavaScript objects; provides a subset of Sass.
Pierre-Yves Gérardy
15 Directives to Extend Your Angular.js Apps tools CodeCondo
JSpreadsheets: A Listing of 31 Open-Source JS Spreadsheets and Data Grids tools Handsoncode
Knwl.js: A JavaScript Natural Language Parser code
Parse text for dates, times, places, phone numbers, and more.
LoadFive
Vectorious: Generalized n-Dimensional Matrix & Vector Library code tutorial Mateo Gianolio
pdfmake: Client/Server Side PDF Generation/Printing in Pure JS code
Based on PDFKit.
Bartek Pampuch
SlackBots.js: A Node Library for Running a Slack Bot code node Mikhail Mokrushin
Hammer.JS: Add Touch Gestures to Your Pages code
Has no dependencies and can recognize gestures made by touch, mouse and pointerEvents.
Eight Media
irecord: An Immutable Store That Exposes An RxJS Observable code
A Backbone model with a twist: an immutable object map that exposes an RxJS observable. Good for React.
Eric Elliott
EON: Open Source JavaScript Framework for Realtime Dashboards/Maps code PubNub
console.message: Console Messages for 'Cool Kids' code
Essentially a bunch of extensions to ‘console’ to print more elaborate messages.
Antonio Stoilkov
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