Welcome to your weekly update of JavaScript news and goodies.
Back to Basics
Creating a Simple Style Switcher - by yours truly
From jQuery to JavaScript - or more accurately, “From jQuery to native browser APIs”
Seven JavaScript Quirks I Wish I’d Known About
Closures: The ‘ringers’ of JavaScript - JavaScript closures for Beginners
A JavaScript Primer For Meteor - covers a lot of basic JavaScript concepts
Watching
The Goodness of JavaScript - a Bill-and-Ted-style ‘state of the union’ JavaScript address
The Birth and Death of JavaScript - covers JavaScript’s history, flaws and future
Understanding Scope in JavaScript - what “this” is all about
AngularJS and i18n
Controlling an Arduino with Node.js and Johnny Five
Tutorials
How To Build A WinJS App In 10 Easy Steps
Building 3D in the browser with Three.js
Creating a Node Web App With Hapi and Twilio Integration
Creating Your First Firefox OS App
How to easily manage your JavaScript libraries in a Rails app using Bower
Resources
Superhero.js - A collection of the best articles, videos and presentations on creating, testing and maintaining a large JavaScript code base
A List of Foundational JavaScript Tools - there’s lots …
es6ify - compile JavaScript.next (ES6) to JavaScript.current (ES5) on the fly.
YUI 3.16.0 Released - what’s new
Book of Modern frontend tooling - introducing you to the world of tooling for modern web applications
So what are your thoughts on the latest going-ons in the world of JavaScript? Do you have any JavaScript quirks to add to the list? Have you built a Firefox OS app you’d like to tell us about?
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