Tag: JavaScript

All the articles with the tag "JavaScript".

• Looking ahead: Microsoft Edge for developers in 2016

  Updated:Feb 3, 2016 |  at 11:45 PM

  MS Edge priorities for 2016: better extension API, performance, more ES6 support, WOFF2, Web Notifications and more

• Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for npm Scripts

  Updated:Jan 21, 2016 |  at 11:27 PM

  Gulp and Grunt leave you dependent on plugin authors, stick you with debugging, and provide disjointed documentation. Why not just use JavaScript?

• Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules

  Updated:Jan 21, 2016 |  at 08:27 PM

  JavaScript Promises and Mutation Observers schedule work as microtasks which fire after the script finishes but before the next event loop. Not all browsers get it right.

• ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

  Updated:Jan 20, 2016 |  at 08:40 PM

  Microsoft makes Chakra open source and pits it against V8, providing a drop-in alternative to V8 with Node.js. Only on Windows so far.

• lodash v4.0.0 released

  Updated:Jan 19, 2016 |  at 07:56 PM

  lodash 4 packs major changes, drops thisArg, folds _.pluck, _.where and more into other methods, adds support for extended Unicode symbols

• Angular 2 Beta is Out

  Updated:Jan 7, 2016 |  at 08:15 PM

  Angular 2 reaches beta, packing a lot of changes from the preview

• Introducting Adobe Animate CC, a new era for Flash Professional

  Updated:Dec 1, 2015 |  at 10:34 PM

  Adobe Flash becomes Animate CC and allows output to HTML5 Canvas

• Asm.js Chess Battle

  Updated:Nov 20, 2015 |  at 06:10 AM

  Watch a chess duel between ASM and vanilla JavaScript. Browsers with ASM support show crushing victories over the vanilla engine!

• Face Proximity Detection with JavaScript

  Updated:Nov 20, 2015 |  at 05:59 AM

  Use canvas and some fancy face recognition C code ported to JavaScript to detect how far a user is from the camera

• Breaking news: ES7 Object.observe is going away

  Updated:Nov 2, 2015 |  at 07:00 PM

  An update on Object.observe