Your weekly update of interesting happenings in the world of JavaScript - feel free to discuss, and help to bring some new ideas to light.
Here’s what we’ve seen of interest this week.
Learn more
JavaScript’s call v apply v bind - a reference for each of these similar methods
Bind, call and apply in JavaScript - a detailed look, helping you to understand these highly useful functions
Testing
Chance - a minimalist generator of random [1] strings, numbers, etc.
check-types.js - a tiny JavaScript library for checking arguments and throwing exceptions
Troubleshooting
JavaScript has a Unicode problem - the issues you will face and what can be done about them
Performance
seamless touch event mapping for your click events - for speedy touch-events
Analysis: Just how complex is your JavaScript code?
Fast retro gaming on mobile- emulating the Sega Master System
Libraries
Handpicked jQuery Plugins Repository - highlighting the best of what’s out there
Frameworks
Learn Node and JavaScript at Node School
An Angular Workflow - taking you through front end web development with Angularjs
Building a Google Calendar Booking App with MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js – Part 1
The lighter side
Musical Keyboard - a virtual synthesizer created using JS Dynamic Audio Synth
what you think about these recent happenings in JavaScript? Let us know and we’ll have some more to inspire you next week.
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