Monthly JSter #11: News of November 2013

JSter #11 is here. Yes, it's the dark and cold season of the year (except for those down under). And JS peeps still keep rocking. This time we'll have an extra batch of demos.

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Libraries

Foundation 5 - The most(?) advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.
jbone - Replacement jQuery for Backbone (2.5k)
Sheetsee.js - Google Spreadsheet as a backend. Reminds me of the MS Access days.
Flylabel.js - Placeholders don't have to be boring.
Validate.js- A framework agnostic way to validate the structure of your objects.
cheet.js - Easy easter eggs for your site.
Resumable.js - Resumable.js provides multiple simultaneous, stable and resumable uploads via the HTML5 File API

Articles

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Node.js

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Angular.js

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Presentations

AngularJS from an Ember.js Perspective

Techniques

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An Alternative to JavaScript's Evil setInterval
Task Automation with NPM Run - You don't need Grunt always!
Handling 500+ lines of Gruntfile.js
60fps Scrolling Using pointer-events: none

Resources

npmjs.eu - European NPM mirror to rescue when the original one goes down.
Crunchzilla - JavaScript tutorials in an interactive form.

Tools

Shadertoy
DynoSRC - Eliminate HTTP requests for JavaScript files and serve differential updates on the fly.
huxley - Catch visual regressions in web apps.