Featured Create a TV Show Tracker using AngularJS, Node.js and MongoDB — A superbly thorough and well-presented tutorial. It goes all the way from starting a new Express project through to deploying it on Heroku. | Sahat Yalkabov |
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A First-Person Engine in 265 Lines of JavaScript — A look at the basics of creating a simple but effective raycaster (similar to the technology used in Wolfenstein 3D) in JavaScript. If the mechanics of how they work is new to you, you’ll learn a lot. | PlayfulJS |
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iOS 8 WebKit Changes Finally Allow All Apps to Have The Same JavaScript Performance As Safari | 9to5Mac |
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Reading My ECMAScript 7 Wishlist — With ECMAScript 6 now feature complete, any further changes to the core of JavaScript will happen in ECMAScript 7. Nicholas Zakas shares a variety of things he hopes to see in ECMAScript’s (and therefore JavaScript’s) future. | Nicholas C Zakas |
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7 Steps to Better JavaScript — Den Odell presents a seven step plan to better code including the tools to streamline the process. Both an article and a 9 minute screencast. | Creative Bloq |
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The Mystery Of The jQuery Object: A Basic Introduction | Smashing Magazine |
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Turning Coders into Makers at JSConf 2014 — Ian Cole takes a high level look at some of the hardware mischief taking place at JSConf last week. It looks like everyone had a great time. | MAKE |
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Summary of Maintainable JavaScript Talk by Nicholas C. Zakas — A written summary of an old, but still relevant, conference talk by esteemed JavaScripter Nicholas C. Zakas. | Alex Kras |
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Using Basic and Tween Transitions in d3.js | Stefan Judis |
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Laser Intrusion Detection with Johnny-Five on Node.js — Rick Waldron is up to his usually awesome experiments, this time hooking up a laser to JavaScript using Node and Arduino. | Bocoup |
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Building Robots and Rockets with JavaScript | MAKE |
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Executing JavaScript In The LESS CSS Precompiler | Ben Nadel |
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Jobs craigslist is seeking javascript developers in San Francisco — craigslist is seeking javascript developers to imagine, design, implement, test, and roll out new features in a small (50), tech-driven, laid-back workplace. | craigslist |
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Senior Software Engineer at Vaurum (Palo Alto, CA) — We’re an early-stage venture-backed startup building infrastructure and novel financial products with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. | Vaurum |
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Code, Libraries and Tools ng-inspector: The AngularJS Inspector Pane for Your Browser — A browser extension for Chrome and Safari that adds an inspector pane to help you develop, debug and understand AngularJS applications. | Bruno Daniel |
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React Bootstrap: The Popular Front-End Framework, Rebuilt for React | Stephen J. Collings |
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Sprinkles: The ‘ActiveSupport of Vanilla JS’ — ActiveSupport is a Ruby library that’s part of the popular Rails framework and it provides a myriad of helpers for views and front-end use. Sprinkles is a far smaller but similar effort for JavaScript covering areas like cookie management, XHR helpers, and date parsing. | Canary |
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Card: Make Your Card Form Input Better in One Line of Code — Includes animations, a card ‘preview’, and is all pure CSS, HTML and JavaScript with no images used. | Jesse Pollak |
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flare.js: Unobtrusive Event Emitter API for Google Universal Analytics Event Tracking | Todd Motto |
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MotorCortex.js: A Way to Separate The Mechanics of On-Page Animations from Logic Code — Provides a way to fully decouple animation and application code so that designers can work on animations independently without interfering with frontend developers. | Andreas Trantidis |
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Headroom.js: Hide Your Page Header Until You Need It | Nick Williams |
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Library Detector For Chrome: An Extension to Detect JS Libraries Used On Page | Andrew Bredow |
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randomColor: A Color Generator for JavaScript — More impressive than it sounds. You can ask it to give you 18 varieties of red, 27 ‘light’ colors, etc. | David Merfield |
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