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Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Loses Weight and Older Browsers
RxJS 2.2 loses weight by only supporting ECMA Script 5 browsers in the default build. It also offers an even lighter weight version that only includes the most commonly used functions.
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Famo.us launches first public access to its Javascript platform
The team that built the Famo.us Javascript platform plans their first preview release of their app layer code on December 5th, 2013 as a foreshadowing of their platform's client-side prowess.
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PayPal Switches from Java to JavaScript
PayPal has decided to use JavaScript from browser all the way to the back-end server for web applications, giving up legacy code written in JSP/Java.
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Smart Clients, Dumb Servers? AWS Releases SDK for JavaScript in the Browser
For years now, developers have been asking their client-side code to do more work while still relying on server-side code to do some heavy lifting. AWS is shaking up that model by releasing a JavaScript SDK that securely accesses AWS services from the browser, thus eliminating in some cases the need for any server-side code.
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Phusion Passenger App Server Gains Node.js Support
Phusion Passenger, a popular web app server originally for Ruby, now supports Node.js apps. The feature was introduced in the Enterprise edition of Passenger earlier this year, but has been open sourced as of the recent 4.0.21 release of the free version. Phusion Passenger brings Scaling, Statistics, Supervision and Multitenancy to Node.js. InfoQ talked to Phusion's CTO Hongli Lai.
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Backbone 1.1.0 Released, Includes Potential Incompatibility with 1.0
A new update to Backbone.js, one of the most widely used front-end architectural frameworks in the JavaScript community, was released the past week. Although it is not a significant version number update, reports from some users indicate that some of changes may cause incompatibility in applications designed to work with version 1.0.
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BrowserSwarm to Automate JavaScript Testing Across Browsers
Testing client side JavaScript code can be tedious and repetitive-so tools that can automate this process are important. BrowserSwarm is a new project designed to simplify this testing process and provide the ability to rapidly test acorss all major browsers.
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Oracle Unveils Project Avatar at JavaOne
Oracle announced the open source release of Project Avatar during the JavaOne conference this past week. Avatar is a web application framework that is focused on building "modern HTML5 applications", while assuming "minor JavaScript knowledge" from application developers.
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Webix JavaScript UI Library Helps to Build Cross Platform HTML5 and CSS3 Applications
XB Software Ltd has recently released its JavaScript UI library codenamed Webix which includes over 40 components that enables you to build not only Android and iOS apps but also traditional windows and web based applications.
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WebStorm 7.0 Adds Support for Even More Web Technologies
JetBrains has just released WebStorm 7.0 GA with support for EJS, Mustache, Handlebars, Web Components, Stylus, Karma, Istanbul, Compass, and comes with various enhancements.
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Ceylon Is Feature Complete
Gavin King, leader of the Ceylon project, has announced the availability of M6 release, which has also been tagged as Ceylon 1.0 Beta, the language been considered feature complete. This release includes complete language specification, a command-line toolset – compilers for JVM and JavaScript VMs, documentation compiler –, an SDK, and an Eclipse-based IDE.
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Node.js Goes Mobile: StrongLoop Launches Open Source mBaaS
StrongLoop, the company which previously launched an Enterprise-Ready Node.js distribution, is today launching a new open-source mobile backend-as-a-service product named LoopBack.
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The Big Progressive Enhancement Debate
Recently, Tom Dale, one of the creators of ember.js, wrote an article that re-kindled a brewing debate on the need for progressive enhancement. This is a quick look at the different views on the debate.
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Creating Nobackend Applications with Firebase
Firebase is out of beta with pricing plans and SLAs. This article contains details on Firebase and an interview with Andrew Lee, CTO.
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Design Patterns for JavaScript Applications
Writing increasingly larger and more complex JavaScript applications we tend to overlook the core principles involved, Carl Danley, a senior web engineer, motivates a series of blog posts about JavaScript design patterns. Patterns provide a clear approach to writing structured and maintainable code, concepts which are important when developing large JavaScript applications.