JSter #67: News of March 2016 - Part 2

Return of the JavaScript

I came to a little realization with my SurviveJS effort a while ago. I actually had two books in one! As a result I extracted a book out of the first one. See SurviveJS - Webpack v1.0.0. You can purchase it through Leanpub although there's a free online edition as well.

I still have to restructure the React book so that it doesn't have Webpack bits anymore. The idea is that once I complete this work, those who have bought the current book by then, will receive both. I feel this is the fairest way to deal with it.

Libraries

{{ screenshot: https://marak.github.io/faker.js/ }}

• faker.js - Generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and Node.js
• Luminous - Simple, standalone lightbox
• PureState - The stupidest state management library that works
• Introducing Feathers 2.0

Articles

• Seams in JavaScript
• The Deep Roots of Javascript Fatigue
• Angular is a Design Pattern

WebAssembly

• JavaScript founder Brendan Eich: WebAssembly is a game-changer
• A WebAssembly Milestone - Experimental Support in Multiple Browsers

ES6

• ES6 is beautiful
• Please stop referring to proposed JavaScript features as ES7

Tutorials

• Learning Observable By Building Observable

Slides

• Scala.js for large and complex frontend apps

Techniques

• Using Lodash as a Collection of Micro-Libraries
• Metaballs and Marching Squares
• Element.scrollIntoView()
• Why Ramda?

Tools

• Storyboard - End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories
• insight - A helpful Chrome extension for WebGL development