58. JavaScript Trends 2014 - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 39
Updated on: 2014-02-21
Posted on: 2014-02-21
Now that 2014 just started it is the right time to reflect on the JavaScript related technologied trends that are expected for 2014, like asm.js, EcmaScript 6, ParallelJS, Web Components and CSS Grid Layout.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 39 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about interesting libraries ported to JavaScript with Emscripten like OCRAD.js, Node-Webkit, VideoConverter.js, as well other outstanding libraries like Frida.js for scripting native applications, Uniter for interpreting PHP in JavaScript, and WebODF document editor.
Listen to this podcast now, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about these JavaScript related technologies and libraries.
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That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 39 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about interesting libraries ported to JavaScript with Emscripten like OCRAD.js, Node-Webkit, VideoConverter.js, as well other outstanding libraries like Frida.js for scripting native applications, Uniter for interpreting PHP in JavaScript, and WebODF document editor.
Listen to this podcast now, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about these JavaScript related technologies and libraries.
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Updated on: 2014-01-22
Posted on: 2014-01-22
More and more advanced JavaScript components have been released to improve the sites user experience in somewhat unexpected ways.
That is the case of Genie.js for executing actions typing their names in a list, Zoomerang for zooming small page elements, or Headroom.js for hiding and showing the page headers when the user scrolls the pages.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 38 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the JavaScript Zeitgeist to discuss what JavaScript developers have been searching for last year, installing JavaScript components with a Composer PHP plugin, asynchronous templating with Nunjucks and implementing state machines with Steelbreeze.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.
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That is the case of Genie.js for executing actions typing their names in a list, Zoomerang for zooming small page elements, or Headroom.js for hiding and showing the page headers when the user scrolls the pages.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 38 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the JavaScript Zeitgeist to discuss what JavaScript developers have been searching for last year, installing JavaScript components with a Composer PHP plugin, asynchronous templating with Nunjucks and implementing state machines with Steelbreeze.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2013-12-17
Posted on: 2013-12-17
The growth of popularity of JavaScript motivated the development of many tools and libraries that can audit your JavaScript code in order to improve it.
Those libraries and tools are the main topic of discussion between Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 37 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They talked about JavaScript tools for security auditing, defining custom code formatting rules, validating code according to custom rules, code refactoring, installing JavaScript packages with Composer PHP installer.
They also talked about JavaScript libraries for accessing Gmail and Amazon Web service APIs.
Listen to the podcast, watch the hangout video or read the transcription to learn about these interesting JavaScript discussions.
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Those libraries and tools are the main topic of discussion between Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 37 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They talked about JavaScript tools for security auditing, defining custom code formatting rules, validating code according to custom rules, code refactoring, installing JavaScript packages with Composer PHP installer.
They also talked about JavaScript libraries for accessing Gmail and Amazon Web service APIs.
Listen to the podcast, watch the hangout video or read the transcription to learn about these interesting JavaScript discussions.
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Updated on: 2013-11-13
Posted on: 2013-11-13
As time passes more and more standalone JavaScript libraries are developed to perform specific tasks useful to all sorts of applications.
Specialized standalone libraries was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 36 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They talked about libraries such as Conzole for adding custom debug consoles to Web applications, QuestionMark.js for handling keyboard shortcuts, Reveal.js for handling multi-user slide presentations, Frame Player for presenting videos using individual images, Offline.js for handling Internet disconnections, secStore.js for encrypting local storage data and ScrollBarToTop to add a top scrollbar to tall page elements.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting standalone JavaScript libraries.
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Specialized standalone libraries was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 36 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They talked about libraries such as Conzole for adding custom debug consoles to Web applications, QuestionMark.js for handling keyboard shortcuts, Reveal.js for handling multi-user slide presentations, Frame Player for presenting videos using individual images, Offline.js for handling Internet disconnections, secStore.js for encrypting local storage data and ScrollBarToTop to add a top scrollbar to tall page elements.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting standalone JavaScript libraries.
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Updated on: 2013-10-18
Posted on: 2013-10-18
TogetherJS is a JavaScript library from Mozilla that allows developers to collaborate with Web site users in order to find and fix its bugs.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Cesar Rodas in the episode 35 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about detecting bugs early in JavaScript code with scope analysis tools, responsive text fonts using FlowType.js, hiding secret text in images using Steganography.js, among other topics.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting JavaScript discussions.
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That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Cesar Rodas in the episode 35 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about detecting bugs early in JavaScript code with scope analysis tools, responsive text fonts using FlowType.js, hiding secret text in images using Steganography.js, among other topics.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting JavaScript discussions.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2013-09-04
JavaScript dissemination is so wide by now that even desktop applications like PhotoShop are using it to let users create scripts to automate any sort of tasks.
This was one of the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in episode 34 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the NoFlo project to implement Flow Based Programming in JavaScript, JavaScript basics that many developers are not using properly, dealing with time zone issues on the browser side, the JointJS for developing visual diagram editors and the Hammer.js library for dealing with multi-touch events, and IndieConf 2013 the upcoming independent developers conference.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript here to learn more about this interesting JavaScript topics.
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This was one of the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in episode 34 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the NoFlo project to implement Flow Based Programming in JavaScript, JavaScript basics that many developers are not using properly, dealing with time zone issues on the browser side, the JointJS for developing visual diagram editors and the Hammer.js library for dealing with multi-touch events, and IndieConf 2013 the upcoming independent developers conference.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript here to learn more about this interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2013-08-07
Posted on: 2013-08-07
The recent introduction of generators and the yield keyword in Node.js provided a better way to deal with asynchronous activities similar to what is possible in Python and PHP 5.5.
That was one of the main topics discussed by the Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 33 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about Firefox removing the option to disable JavaScript, the valueof function to use object operations, the best ways to test private code, a fast way to browse table grids with millions of records, and the PhoneGap 3.0 release.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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That was one of the main topics discussed by the Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 33 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about Firefox removing the option to disable JavaScript, the valueof function to use object operations, the best ways to test private code, a fast way to browse table grids with millions of records, and the PhoneGap 3.0 release.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2013-07-09
Posted on: 2013-07-09
The Extensible Web Manifesto is proposing that the next Web standards be implemented as JavaScript libraries, so sites can benefit of the standards now instead of waiting for the next generation of browsers to implement those new standards.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in episode 32 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talks about better form submission feedback using Ladda, rendering 3D graphics on 2D canvas without WebGL using Phoria, and controlling Web apps using speech commands.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in episode 32 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talks about better form submission feedback using Ladda, rendering 3D graphics on 2D canvas without WebGL using Phoria, and controlling Web apps using speech commands.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2013-06-13
Posted on: 2013-06-13
JavaScript development tools have been improving a lot and some are already very mature.
JSHint 2 was just released. Tern allows JavaScript code static analysis to anticipate the detection of potential bugs. ExplainJS can show JavaScript code side by side with explanations extracted from comments.
These are some of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on episode 31 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about how Mozilla can run asm.js JavaScript with near native performance, using Gif.js to generated animated GIF images in the browser, and capturing camera pictures using regular form file inputs.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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JSHint 2 was just released. Tern allows JavaScript code static analysis to anticipate the detection of potential bugs. ExplainJS can show JavaScript code side by side with explanations extracted from comments.
These are some of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on episode 31 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about how Mozilla can run asm.js JavaScript with near native performance, using Gif.js to generated animated GIF images in the browser, and capturing camera pictures using regular form file inputs.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2013-05-13
Posted on: 2013-05-13
Now that both Google and Bing support crawling sites that use HTML5 history pushState, developers are free to use it in AJAX based Web sites navigation. That was one of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in episode 30 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about Chardin.js for overlaying page help instructions, creating page screenshot clips with PhantomJS, supporting functions with a variable number of arguments, and detecting the inadvertent use of global variables using Debug.js.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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They also talked about Chardin.js for overlaying page help instructions, creating page screenshot clips with PhantomJS, supporting functions with a variable number of arguments, and detecting the inadvertent use of global variables using Debug.js.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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