Tag: JavaScript

All the articles with the tag "JavaScript".

• The TC39 group (the panel charged with delivering ES6) has reached consensus on an abbreviated syntax for JavaScript function expressions

  Updated:Aug 13, 2014 |  at 03:27 PM

  Watch for fat arrow syntax in ES6 along with its hard binding of the this keyword

• Autopolyfiller: a tool that lets authors use the same approach as CSS preprocessors like autoprefixer, but with JavaScript polyfills

  Updated:Aug 9, 2014 |  at 08:11 PM

  Simply write your JavaScript assuming the latest browser technology then let Autopolyfiller inspect your code and decide which polyfill libraries to include.

• Enquire.js - Media Query Callbacks in JavaScript | CSS-Tricks

  Updated:Aug 7, 2014 |  at 03:41 PM

  CSS Media Queries are great, but sometimes you need JavaScript events to fire when media queries change

• GitHub repo: Immutable Data Collections for JavaScript

  Updated:Aug 1, 2014 |  at 04:28 PM

  Dive into functional programming with Facebook's JavaScript library for immutable collections

• Intern testing framework: "Let the Intern test it"

  Updated:Jul 31, 2014 |  at 11:24 PM

  You might want to try out this new open-source JavaScript testing framework with promises and integrated with cloud-hosted testing providers such as BrowserStack

• The "Is" library from jumpkick-studios: "a better way to write JavaScript conditional statements and still have pretty code"

  Updated:Jul 30, 2014 |  at 05:43 PM

  Use "Is" to flatten out your if-then-else logic flow and handle exceptions

• jspm.io - jspm is a package manager built on top of the ES6 module loader that loads any module format: ES6, AMD, CommonJS, and... browser global variables

  Updated:Jul 28, 2014 |  at 09:32 PM

  jspm: A strong contender for a JavaScript package manager that is friendly to node and the browser

• Optimising for 60fps everywhere -- GoSquared Engineering

  Updated:Jul 23, 2014 |  at 10:46 PM

  JavaScript is fast by itself, but understanding re-paints and re-layouts is critical to avoiding jitter and hanging, especially on mobile

• Choose: Grunt, Gulp, or npm?

  Updated:Jul 23, 2014 |  at 03:42 AM

  Gulp provides power and efficiency but Grunt is still a good choice. And don't forget you can use npm alone as a build tool.