JSter #29: News of August 2014 - Part 2
JavaScript is like ice cream. Super yummy in small doses. Extremely painful in large quantities - @beders
Libraries
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- YUI is Retiring
- AngularJS vs. Backbone.js vs. Ember.js
- sweep.js - Nice color transitions
- Psykick2D - HTML5 game engine built with performance and usability in mind
- p5.js - Alternative to Processing
- Knockout 3.2.0 released
- Raynos/mercury - A truly modular frontend framework
Articles
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- 10 essential JavaScript resources for HTML5
- Javascript: the weird parts -- Charlie Harvey
- Rails and React I: A happy medium
- Opinionated Rundown of JS Frameworks
- The future of NPM website
- 3 New JavaScript APIs You May Want to Follow
- 7 Minimal Node.js Web Frameworks for 2014 and Beyond
Tutorials
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- Advanced objects in JavaScript
- How To Add Page Transitions with CSS and smoothState.js
- Better Builds Begin with Broccoli
Guides
Techniques
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- Black Box Driven Development in JavaScript
- Async requests with React.js and Flux, revisited.
- Browserify and Gulp with React
- Pure CSS parallax scrolling websites
- Single Element CSS Spinners
Games
Tools
- HTML5 Web Components and Custom Tags, built with X-Tags, Polymer or Pure JavaScript by Martin Ivanov (@wemakesitesnet)
- danielstjules/pjs - Pipeable javascript. Quickly filter, map, and reduce from the terminal