This week's JavaScript news, issue 230

Happy birthday JavaScript, 20 years old this month Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 230 — May 1, 2015 We're planning a bigger feature on this soon, but it was 20 years ago this month that Brendan Eich created JavaScript (then codenamed Mocha) in just 10 days, leading to its eventual release as LiveScript in Netscape Navigator 2.0. Congratulations go not just to Brendan but the entire JavaScript scene and all it has produced over 20 amazing years for the Web and its role in our daily lives. - Peter Cooper ES6 In Depth: Iterators and the for-of loop ES6’s for (.. of ..) loop finally resolves some of the quirks with the alternatives when it comes to iterating over array elements. Mozilla Hacks Electronics for the JavaScript Developer using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE A nuts and bolts introduction to getting up and running with a basic electronics experiment on the Spark platform along with Node. Sayanee Basu Kyle Simpson Defends JavaScript Coercion's Bad Reputation An interesting 9 minute interview with an expert JavaScript trainer. YouTube Free Webinar: Build Secure User Interfaces With JWTs With new tools like Angular.js it's easy to build Single-Page Applications backed by APIs. Learn about all the major browser security issues and how you can mitigate the risks in this May 14th webinar. Sign up now. Stormpath   Sponsored An Introduction to the Futuristic New Router in AngularJS A new router for Angular 2 is currently being built, but it will also be back-ported to Angular 1.4, so it’s worth checking out. SitePoint Vorlon.JS: A Remote Debugging and Testing Tool Vorlon.js helps you remotely load, inspect, test and debug JavaScript code running on any device with a browser. There’s also an article about why MS created it. Microsoft JSBlocks: Yet Another MV-ish Framework Another week, another framework, but this one looks pretty good and boasts of being incredibly modular and faster than React and Angular too. JSBlocks Jobs Get 5+ Job Offers in 1 Week with HiredYou'll create a profile & over 1 week tech companies will apply to you! You'll get salary/equity offers upfront & you're under no obligation to accept any offer. Interested? Join Hired today. Hired.com Front-End Engineer at SRC:CLR (SF)SRC:CLR is a software security startup in the name of security for open-source code. You will join our front-end team and be a key part of the engineering process building our Angular single-page application. SRC:CLR Apply to 110 venture-backed NYC startups in 60 seconds with Underdog.ioHiring managers & founders will email you directly. No middlemen or recruiters. Find a new job you’ll love. New cities coming soon. Underdog.io In brief jQuery 1.11.3 and 2.1.4 Released news Billed as the ‘iOS Fail-Safe Editions’ due to solely fixing a rare iOS 8.2 and 8.3 bug.   jQuery Foundation LatamJS: A Community for JavaScripters en Latinoamérica news  MediterráneaJS: A Two Day JavaScript Conference in Barcelona (June 22-23) news  An Introduction to JavaScript-Based DDoS tutorial  CloudFlare Want to Know How ES6 Generators Work? Take A Look A The Transpiled Code tutorial  Josh Johnston Enhance Your JavaScript Debugging with Cross-Browser Source Maps tutorial  David Rousset Building a Modular Security Camera with Embedded JS on the Tessel  tutorial  Graham Jenson Building a Static Site Generator Grunt Plugin tutorial  Matthew Daly Effective Dependency Management in JavaScript video A quick 5 minute Ignite talk.   Hector Virgen A Complete Overview of Ember.js and Its Surrounding Technologies video  Ember Screencasts Jiphy: A Python to JavaScript 2-Way Converter tools  Timothy Edmund Crosley Find Bugs Before Your Users Do - A Few Lines of Code is All it Takes tools Real-time error tracking for JavaScript and Node that you can set up in minutes.  Raygun   Sponsored Visual Studio Code: A New Cross Platform Code Editor from MS tools  Microsoft SQL Source Control: track each change to your SQL Server database tools Get a full history in your source control system. See who made changes, what they did & why. See how.  Red Gate Software   Sponsored Ember.js: The Ever Evolving Rock opinion  Kory Tegman React Native: For When the Mobile Web Isn't Enough opinion  Red Badger jQuery Considered Harmful opinion  Lea Verou FOAM: A Modeling Framework from Google code Described as a ‘Feature-Oriented Active Modeller’, FOAM lets you create DSLs for entities/classes, parsers, animations, database queries, and more.   Google react-soundplayer: Create Custom SoundCloud Players with React code  soundblo.gs Ramjet: Morph DOM Elements Into Each Other code  Rich Harris Isomorphic React Apps with React-Engine code Library for Express-based Node web apps to render composite React views.   PayPal jQuery Calx: An Excel Calculation Engine and Formula Parser jQuery Plugin code  xsanisty Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press. Stop getting JavaScript Weekly : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web © Cooper Press Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK

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