Your weekly update of interesting happenings in the world of JavaScript - feel free to discuss, and help to bring some new ideas to light.
Getting Started
jstherightway.org - A JavaScript guide intended to introduce new developers and help experienced ones to the JavaScript’s best practices
Javascript workflow for dummies - scopes and variables
Libraries
Args - Lets you easily create functions with optional parameters, default parameters, parameter groups and named parameters
Countup - More interesting animated counters
Lazy- A tiny and dependency-free JavaScript library for lazy loading resources
Parsley - UX-aware forms validation without needing to write any more JavaScript
Suchas - Provides essential jQuery-like methods for your evergreen browser, in under 200 lines of code
Lockit - an Express Authentication Solution [echojs 15-01-2014]
Path - Features a chainable API for generating declarative graphics using SVG paths
Techniques
Enhancing the HTML abbr Element on Mobile
JavaScript Animation That Works (Part 1 of 4)
Composing Functions in JavaScript
Functions that yield multiple times
Callbacks, Promises, Signals and Events
Stop Being Afraid Of Promises And Be Awesome Instead
Flight mixins, the component-based framework for Twitter
Interesting ideas
Grasp: Search, replace, and refactor your JavaScript code based on its structure rather than its text
Using live extensions to solve front-end problems
Sound
Recreating THX’s Deep Note in JavaScript with the Web Audio API
[experimental] Speech Synthesis API - A Web apps that talk
Testing
Sublime Web Inspector letting you debug Javascript right in the Sublime Text editor
JSCS - Code style checker that can check cases, which are not implemeted in jshint, but it does not duplicate jshint functionality, so you should use jscs and jshint together
Schema inspector - A powerful tool to sanitize and validate JS objects
Frameworks
A Practical Guide to AngularJS Directives
Protractor - A guide to practical AngularJS End-to-End Testing
Frontend Component-based architecture for backbone
NodeJS
The Next Phase of Node.js
Interactive release tool to build and release npm to Git repositories
Others of interest
N queens problem - Exploring the use of backtracking to find multiple answers
So what do you make of these recent going ons?
Are you doing anything with AngularJS, Backbone, or Node? Are promises going to help you in any way?
Please PM us if you have anything of interest for the next issue, and happy reading! - Paul & [URL=“http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/private.php?do=newpm&u=184222”]Pullo