JSter #60: News of December 2015 - Part 1

Make const, not var

The book keeps progressing. SurviveJS 1.9.15 incorporates a nice amount of improvements. It's likely the last release before 2.0. After that the cycle can begin again.

Libraries

• Angular 2 Beta

Articles

• Pure JavaScript vs. lodash, and the importance of decision-making in programming
• JavaScript Frameworks and Mobile Performance
• Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source
• Ember.js - Functional Programming and the Observer Effect

Tutorials

• Exploring Elm - Part 1
• Let’s Make a (D3) Plugin
• Building a CDN Reporting Application with Webpack & React

Techniques

• Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture
• vasanthk/async-javascript - Evolution of Asynchronous JavaScript
• Offline Web Apps on GitHub Pages
• Offline Recipes for Service Workers
• Loading Web Fonts with the Web Font Loader

Resources

• What Web Can Do Today

Tools

• CodeceptJS - E2E testing for Node.js.
• wekan/wekan - The open-source Trello-like kanban built with Meteor

Demos

• Pokedex.org