Front-end Developer News

------— 📖SharePoint and AngularJS Lessons Learned from the Trenches —---— "Thanks to SharePoint 2013 it is a lot easier to be able to create client based solutions. AngularJS is one of the solutions out there that allows developers to create applications very quickly through an MVC implementation. In this session we will go over the basics of AngularJS in regards to apps, controllers, services and views. We will create a simple application built entirely through client technologies and in SharePoint. The principles learned here can be used anywhere in SharePoint whether it is a Farm Solution in an on-premises environment or in an app on Office 365. We will also explore some of the issues that you are likely to experience with the release of AngularJS 2."

---------- Angular Polymer —------- angular-polymer is a directive factory that aims at bridging the gaps between using Polymer based Web Components in Angular applications.

------— Pragma —---— Parse pragma and its content from JavaScript comments

------— 📖Google Interview University —---— I originally created this as a short to-do list of study topics, but it grew to the large list you see today. Working at Google was the original motivator, hence the name. I didn't get an interview at Google, but the repo name lives on, and it would mess up a lot of folks to change it now. The items listed here will prepare you for a career at just about any software company, including the giants: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.

------— Webdrivercss —---— CSS regression testing in WebdriverIO. This plugin is an automatic visual regression-testing tool for WebdriverIO. It was inspired by James Cryer's awesome project called PhantomCSS. After initialization it enhances a WebdriverIO instance with an additional command called webdrivercss and enables the possibility to save screenshots of specific parts of your application.

---------- Vue Play —------- A minimalistic framework for demonstrating your Vue components, inspired by react-storybook.

------— 📖The Difference Between Call and Apply in Javascript —---— One very common thing that trips me up when writing Javascript is knowing when to use call and when to use apply.

---------- 📖The Difference Between Call and Apply in Javascript —------- Throughout my time writing Javascript code, I've come to realize that while I love the language to bits, it is a little difficult to understand. A lot of people have attributed this to its (admittedly not so great) design, or its obvious deviations from the paths well worn by other languages. Either way, understanding a few simple truths can go a long way with JS. What follows is the condensed and written version of the introductory class on JavaScript that I give at training programs and user groups.

--------- jsdelivr —------ Similar to Google Hosted Libraries, jsDelivr is an open source CDN that allows developers to host their own projects and anyone to link to our hosted files in their websites.

---------- 📖CSS Protips —------- A collection of tips to help take your CSS skills pro.

--------- whatwg-url —------ whatwg-url is a full implementation of the WHATWG URL Standard. It can be used standalone, but it also exposes a lot of the internal algorithms that are useful for integrating a URL parser into a project like jsdom.

---------- Preload webpack plugin —------- A Webpack plugin for automatically wiring up asynchronous (and other types) of JavaScript. This helps with lazy-loading.