This week's JavaScript news, issue 262

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 262 — December 11, 2015 For today only, we've partnered with Manning Publications on a 50% sale of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, JavaScript Application Design & Third Party JavaScript. Use code dotd121115cc to get the 50%. Not interested? Enjoy this free chapter [PDF] from Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja instead :-) - Peter Cooper, Editor Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript Engine to Be Open-Sourced Microsoft will open-source the core components of Chakra (as ChakraCore), the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft Edge. MSDN Bliss: A 3KB Library for Happier Vanilla JS Spawned from 8 years of solid JavaScript work and expertise comes Lea Verou’s Bliss, a ‘helper library for people who don’t like helper libraries’ and who want to use vanilla JS with just a little help. The side by side examples of vanilla JS and Bliss are compelling. Lea Verou JavaScript Developer Survey Results Nicolas Bevacqua ran a survey on his popular JavaScript blog and got over 5000 responses. Get insights into the community’s use of testing, semicolons, CI, build scripts, and more. Nicolas Bevacqua Try RASON® – RESTful Analytic Solver® Object Notation for JavaScript RASON® is the super-easy way to solve powerful optimization and simulation models in your web or mobile app. Use a high-level modeling language embedded in JSON, and a simple, Azure-backed REST API that’s free for small problems, but scalable to handle huge models. Frontline Systems Inc.   Sponsored The Beginner's Preemptive Guide To AngularJS 2 Alpha An extensive walkthrough of building a Markdown editor in Angular 2 that got the thumbs up from Angular’s own Brad Green. AntJanus Universal React: A Tutorial “We’re going to create a tiny ReactJS application that will work both on the server and the client.” Jack Franklin How to Schedule Background Tasks in JavaScript We all know about setTimeout for timing the execution of code, but are you familiar with requestIdleCallback? Craig Buckler Jobs Front-End Developer at Viewpost (Orlando, FL)Viewpost has built a B2B platform that connects businesses to their partners via their A/P and A/R- think of PayPal marrying LinkedIn. If you are passionate about JavaScript, React, HTML5, Angular, etc. in order to build responsive applications then we would love to hear from you. Viewpost 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. 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Stop applying and let the offers come to you with Hired. Hired.com In brief TypeScript 1.7 Released  Now supports Async functions for targets with ES6 generator support enabled.   MS Visual Studio Code Enables ES6 Support by Default news  Microsoft 50% off 5 of Manning's JavaScript Books - Today Only news  Manning Publications   Sponsored Node v5.2.0 (Stable) Released news node  Node Foundation Angular 1.5.0-rc.0 Released news code  GitHub ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator news opinion A proposal for adding the simple-but-useful pipeline operator to JavaScript.   Gilbert CodeSchool Launches Interactive ES2015 Course news  CodeSchool Parsing RSS Feeds in JavaScript - The Options tutorial  Raymond Camden Building Mobile Apps with Angular 2 and NativeScript tutorial  Angular Blog What's New in Vue.js 1.0 tutorial news  Ryan Chenkie Building A ToDo List Application with Angular 2 tutorial  Colin Eberhardt Emscripten and WebAssembly slidedeck A slidedeck from the creator of Emscripten.   Alon Zakai Using React is a Business Decision, Not a Technology Choice opinion “React grew out of solving business problems rather than technical ones.”   Eric Baer Observations on Promises opinion  Chris Dickinson d3.compose: Make Data-Driven Visualizations from Reusable Components in d3 code  Cornerstone Systems Northwest Inc. embed.js: A Pure JavaScript Plugin to Embed (Many Things) code Analyzes supplied strings to insert/embed code, gists, videos, MP3s, and more into a page.   Ritesh Kumar pajax: Promise-Based AJAX library code  n-fuse GmbH gridster.js: jQuery Plugin for Drag and Drop Multi-Column Grids code  Ducksboard paredit.js: S-Expression Editor and Navigation code  Robert Krahn Angular-trix: A Rich WYSIWYG Text Editor Directive for Angular code  Sachin N Discover 52 tips to improve your .NET performance  Our new eBook features dozens of tips and tricks to boost your .NET performance. 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Streamlining Mobile App Databases with Realm.io

Despite most modern mobile apps requiring online access to send and receive data, at some point in app development you will need to store data locally on the device. For this you will need a local database.

Databases are generally slow at reading and writing data and Realm.io is a promising solution that can make development easy and offers a performance upgrade from SQLite on Android and Core Data on iOS.

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Beautiful illustrations and subtle animations in the unique One Pager for a new Georgian craft beer called 34. It's difficult to put into words the amount of love that the Leavingstone team put into this Single Page website. The layout is really unique but still very flexible, the intro age verification check is hilarious and the overall consistency of color, typography and illustrations is just superb. Make sure you watch the video too with their pricing experiment, interesting stuff.

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A Beginners Guide to Titan Framework: Adding a Font Type Option

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Social Customer Service: How to Care for Customers With Social Media

Does your business have a social customer service plan? Want to step up your customer service on social media? To discover how to improve your social customer care, I interview Dan Gingiss. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help […]

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Happy Holidays 2015 from Studio Azura

Neat holiday greeting card by Studio Azura, a digital agency from Montreal, Canada. The One pager combines low poly art with scroll animation technologies (Skrollr, FlowType, TweenMax) .

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