This week's JavaScript news, issue 234

Angular 1.4.0, Polymer 1.0, a Slack-like Meteor app, and more. Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 234 — May 29, 2015 Angular 1.4.0 Released Nothing huge but many enhancements and tweaks. Animations refactored, fixes and improvements for $http, extra accessibility features, and so forth. Angular Core Team Rocket.Chat: A Slack-like Chat System, Built on Meteor An open source Web based, channel based chat system (a la Slack) built using Meteor, the full stack JavaScript development platform. Or if you’d rather build your own from scratch, check out this tutorial. Rocket.Chat Testing JavaScript with Jasmine, Travis, and Karma A quick tutorial on the process of testing JavaScript code using a continuous integration service and the Karma testing framework. SitePoint Online Workshop: Building Modern, Single-Page Web Applications Build a clean, well-structured web app from scratch by combining best-of breed approaches and a carefully curated set of tools including: Ampersand, React, WebPack, ES6 and Node.js. Frontend Masters   Sponsored Polymer 1.0 Released Google’s library that sits on top of Web Components and makes it easy to create interoperable custom elements has reached its 1.0 milestone. Google Developers Blog Replicating Art With JS A fun look at replicating an abstract painting using JavaScript. If you like this sort of thing, Jenn Schiffer’s art experiments are also great to check out. JS Art ES6 In Depth: Rest Parameters and Defaults Mozilla Hacks continues its exploration into ES6 with a look at two features that make JavaScript’s function syntax more expressive. Mozilla Hacks Voice Memos: Google's Sample Voice Recorder Webapp Code for a sample web app that lets you record voice memos. It uses ES6 classes (via Babel) and RecorderJS. Google Choose ES6 Modules Today Cody Lindley explains why you should ditch non-standard JavaScript module formats and move to the ECMAScript 6 module format with examples. Telerik Developer Network Jobs Expert JavaScript Instructors at Pluralsight (Freelance-Part-time)Currently hiring expert JavaScript Developers that want to share their knowledge with a global audience. As a Pluralsight author, you'll join a tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties. We are looking for the best communicators and presenters in the JavaScript community. Apply today. Pluralsight Spend your time coding, not searching for a job.On Hired, we'll bring the options to you. With over 2,000 pre-screened tech companies in 10 cities in the US & UK, you'll be sure to find what you're looking for. Join Hired today. Hired.com In brief Baby's First Reaction: A 'Hello, World' Example for React tutorial  Eric Elliott True Hash Maps in JavaScript tutorial  Ryan Morr An Introduction to Functional JavaScript tutorial  M. David Green Building a Twitter App Using Angular tutorial  Preetish Panda Are ES6 Promises Swallowing Your Errors? tutorial  James K Nelson Firing Responsive jQuery Functions based on CSS Media Queries tutorial  FourFront All Things Angular 2: Preparing for The Transition video  Yuri Takhteyev What Is RxJS? A 2 Minute Introduction video  Egghead.io 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 Why We Should Stop Using Bower – And How to Do It opinion  Jaakko Salonen The Mobile App Framework Matrix tools A quick comparison of 7 different frameworks that let you build multi-platform mobile apps with a single JavaScript code base.   Matthias Schuetz Build with the best Redis support and analytics from RedisGreen tools Production-ready Redis hosting starting at $14/month.  RedisGreen   Sponsored Talkie.js: An HTML Presentation Library Written in ES6 and Bacon.js code  Ayumu Sato Vibrant.js: Extract Prominent Colors From An Image code  Jari Zwarts Pavlov.js: Markov Decision Processes for Implementing Reinforcement Learning code  Nathan Epstein DecorateThis: Simple JS Type Checking through ES7 Decorators code  Jake Scott NotifyMe.js: A Simple Notification Library code  Shiv Ganesh 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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