13 multiple choice questions on things like bindings, classes, computed properties, and more, await you. Explanations of the answers are available.
kangax
Object.observe was a promising new feature in the forthcoming ES7 standard (and implemented in V8) but which now appears to be withdrawn from consideration by TC39, as well as from V8.
ESDiscuss
A tour of the history of dates and times which, eventually, moves into how JavaScript deals with their quirks. This is a long read which threads the worlds of technology and politics together well.
Curtis Autery
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A great introductory talk on Scala.js which compiles Scala code to JavaScript. It’s not commercially supported by Typesafe but is production ready.
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Cody Lindley explains why he believes jQuery is still important and relevant, despite the growing noise saying that you don’t need jQuery.
Telerik Developer Network
A very thorough slidedeck that stands up well on its own. It looks at the issues with CommonJS and why ES6/ES2015’s native module system is so vital.
Ben Newman
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In Brief
82% Call It ES6; 18% ES2015 or JavaScript 2015 news Twitter
O'Reilly Fluent 2016 Registration Now Open (Mar 7-10, San Francisco) news O'Reilly Media
$30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots news TechCrunch
Is Angular 2 Ready? news
If you want a quick look at progress.. 68 issues must be closed before the first beta.
4-Day Workshop: Algorithms and Data Structures in JavaScript course A practical class for students comfortable with the JavaScript language but who want to level up on their data structures and algorithms knowledge. Join us Nov 17-20th online or in-person. Frontend Masters Sponsor
Synchronous and Asynchronous Sequential Execution of Functions tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Building Real-Time Chat with Ember 2 and Pusher tutorial Jack Franklin
Create a GitHub File Explorer Using Vue.js tutorial Alex Sears
How The Guardian Used Service Workers to Build an Offline Page tutorial The Guardian
Converting a Gulp project from ES5 to ES6 with Babel 6.0.0 tutorial Anthony Sierra
Higher Order React Components tutorial Nat Pryce
Observing Changes using ES6 Proxies tutorial May become more relevant given the Object.observe news. Tobi Reif
JavaScript ES6 var, let, or const? opinion Eric Elliott
7 Reasons to Use Ember.js opinion Jeffrey Biles
Will Angular 2 Be A Success? You Bet opinion Telerik Developer Network
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RiotJS 2.3.0 Released: A Step Forward for the React-like Micro-Library code news
Compile OCaml to JavaScript, Run on Node tools node Edgar Aroutiounian
Shift.JS: A Swift to JavaScript Transpiler tools code
It’s still at an early stage but works with most of Swift’s syntax.
ShiftJS
Revenant: High Level PhantomJS Headless Browsing and Testing API code node Jia Hao
Dragon: An Attempt at Implementing 'Backbone' with Modern Concepts code
An interesting experiment.
Chris Abrams
Cropper: A Simple jQuery Image Cropping Plugin code Fengyuan Chen
Human Readable JSLinux: Hand De-Obfuscated and Annotated code
Based on Fabrice Bellard’s JSLinux x86 emulator. Anselm Levskaya
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