64. Are Developers Really Dropping Node.js for the Go Language? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 44
Updated on: 2014-07-16
Posted on: 2014-07-16
The recent announcement of the departure a known Node.js contributor to the Go language started making Node.js developers consider to follow him due to the limitations of Node.js.
This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 44 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about faster page navigation using YouTube SPF framework, detecting changes in DOM documents using Mutation Observers, executing complex computations faster with SIMD library, developing first person games with a small library, etc..
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This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 44 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about faster page navigation using YouTube SPF framework, detecting changes in DOM documents using Mutation Observers, executing complex computations faster with SIMD library, developing first person games with a small library, etc..
Listen to the podcast now, 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: 2014-06-23
Posted on: 2014-06-23
The event of headless browsers and the increased ability of search engines to crawl AJAX based Web pages opened space for new SEO techniques to index better pages rendered using JavaScript.
This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos in the episode 43 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast hangout.
They also discussed traversing DOM documents with relying on external libraries like jQuery, dynamically updating JavaScript applications with Facebook Flo, the best ways to load JavaScript asynchrnously, and Web animations support in newer browsers.
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This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos in the episode 43 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast hangout.
They also discussed traversing DOM documents with relying on external libraries like jQuery, dynamically updating JavaScript applications with Facebook Flo, the best ways to load JavaScript asynchrnously, and Web animations support in newer browsers.
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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Updated on: 2014-05-20
Posted on: 2014-05-20
JavaScript is a language that is different in many ways from other languages, so it has its own way of use that other language developers need to learn about.
The JavaScript differences and less known secrets were some of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in episode 42 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about new interesting JavaScript libraries and FormulaJS for manipulating arrays and objects with Excel formulas, and general purpose syntax highlighting with PrismJS.
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The JavaScript differences and less known secrets were some of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in episode 42 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about new interesting JavaScript libraries and FormulaJS for manipulating arrays and objects with Excel formulas, and general purpose syntax highlighting with PrismJS.
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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Updated on: 2014-04-16
Posted on: 2014-04-16
Facebook just released the Hack Language. It implements a way to do asynchronous programming without going through the callback hell, thus making asynchronous programming more pleasant and productive.
That was one of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosings in the episode 41 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about doing page scroll based animations, emulating a file system on the browser side, developing HTML5 browser based games with Unity, using Node.js from the browser, transmitting data via audio and microphones using HTML5 Audio API, and validating email addresses with email typo fix suggestions with Node.js.
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That was one of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosings in the episode 41 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about doing page scroll based animations, emulating a file system on the browser side, developing HTML5 browser based games with Unity, using Node.js from the browser, transmitting data via audio and microphones using HTML5 Audio API, and validating email addresses with email typo fix suggestions with Node.js.
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Updated on: 2014-03-17
Posted on: 2014-03-17
HTML5 linked page prefetching is an interesting way load faster the next pages but it may not be a waste of bandwidth and CPU resources because the users may not visit the preloaded pages.
A more efficient way to prefetch the next pages is implemented by the Instaclick library that detects the user intention to click on a link by listening to link hover events.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 40 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also discussed the advantages of using "use strict", background compilation of JavaScript in upcoming Chrome versions, trying JavaScript 6 features with ES6Fiddle, responsive menus with JRM, and JavaScript port of the game Quake using Emscripten.
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A more efficient way to prefetch the next pages is implemented by the Instaclick library that detects the user intention to click on a link by listening to link hover events.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 40 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also discussed the advantages of using "use strict", background compilation of JavaScript in upcoming Chrome versions, trying JavaScript 6 features with ES6Fiddle, responsive menus with JRM, and JavaScript port of the game Quake using Emscripten.
Now listen to the podcast audio, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript discussions.
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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.
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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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