JSter #35: News of November 2014 - Part 2

Java is to JavaScript as bat is to Batman

Libraries

{{ screenshot: http://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/ }}

• QuaggaJS, an advanced barcode-reader
• dat-gui - A lightweight controller library
• Coffeequate - Equation solver
• interact.js for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures
• staltz/cycle - The next step after React?
• Ideal Image Slider
• js-next/react-style
• React Widgets

Articles

{{ screenshot: http://sitr.us/2014/11/21/flow-is-the-javascript-type-checker-i-have-been-waiting-for.html }}

• Flow is the JavaScript type checker I have been waiting for
• Top 5 benefits after 6 months of component driven AngularJS development
• Developing Games in JavaScript – Where to Start?
• Is node.js just a stopgap?
• Massive: The asm.js Benchmark

Tutorials

• A Reflux TodoMVC codebase walkthrough
• ES6 Array methods

Guides

• Sublime Text for Front End Developers
• Hacker's guide to Neural Networks

Techniques

• Preventing 'layout thrashing'
• Gigacore/four-shadows - Spice up your icons
• PubSub Design Pattern
• Amphibian Abstracts: Call Now, Log Later
• An easier way of using polyfills
• Porting to Emscripten

Random

• Angular Ones
• npm universe

Tools

• iojs/io.js - Node.js just got forked.

Demos

• Winamp2-js
• JS1k - Highway at night