JSter #30: News of September 2014 - Part 1

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Libraries

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• pioneer.js - Easy to understand DSL for testing your app
• tkambler/bonegular - Backboneish models and collections for Angular.
• subprotocol/genetic-js - Genetic and evolutionary algorithms
• roman01la/web-components-polyfills
• terra.js - Biological simulations and cellular automata
• deloreanjs/delorean - Flux for React
• fat/bean - Event handling made simple

Articles

• Notes from the development of xkcd's "Pixels"
• Deconstructing ReactJS's Flux
• Understanding the node.js event loop
• 6 Reasons to Use React.js as Your Next Framework

Tutorials

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• Introducing Blast.js - Spoiler: it's a text manipulation library
• Node.js: managing child processes
• Getting started with NoFlo - Nodes in Node.js
• Flow Control With Promises
• JavaScript Memory Management Masterclass

Guides

• Gulp Fiction - Better than Pulp Fiction?
• A Compendium of SVG Information
• JavaScript API Hall of Shame - Shame on you JS, shame on you
• React vs. Ember

Techniques

• Track Errors with Google Analytics
• 10 Tips to Make Your Node.js Web App Faster
• Justified Gallery

Tools

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• Plunker: Open Editor Perfect for Angular.js
• 11 essential JavaScript tools for Web developers
• 20 Fresh JavaScript Tools for Developers
• Gravit – unlock your design potential. - Design tool. Yup.
• slap-editor/slap - Sublimeish editor written in JS