Checking Whether A Value Is An Integer in JavaScript — Integers lead an odd life in JavaScript. In the ECMAScript specification, they only exist conceptually. In this post, Axel explains how to check whether a value is an integer or not.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
One Year of Open-Source React — React is a high speed JavaScript library for building user interfaces with one-way reactive data flows. This year marks the one year anniversary of its release by Facebook and they reflect on it here. In related news, you can see the slides for a talk given at JSConf this week calledWhy does React scale?
Brian Holt, front-end developer at Reddit, will help you make an informed choice of which JavaScript framework to use for your upcoming projects. Discover the unique value propositions in AngularJS, React, Backbone and Ember. Attend in-person or online with HD video plus chat. Join in on June 13th.
Explain This JavaScript Name Clash — A simple question and answer on Stack Overflow remind us of why it’s important to remember what effect JavaScript’s ‘function hoisting’ can have on our code.
Stack Overflow
HTML5 Forms: JavaScript and the Constraint Validation API — Craig Buckler concludes a series of posts about HTML5 forms by looking at using JavaScript and the Constraint Validation API to improve the usability of forms across as many browsers as possible.
SitePoint
Google Now Executing JavaScript to Render Pages It Crawls — Google shares some insights into what they’re doing at the crawler end to work with JavaScript. They’re also planning to release some tools through the Webmaster Tools system to help you analyze how they’re executing your JavaScript and any problems they’re encountering with it.
Compile, Pre, and Post Linking in AngularJS — Directives have many mysterious features when you first come across them but experiments, such as that demonstrated in this post, can help you figure out what’s going on behind the scenes.
K. Scott Allen
Building Your First Grunt Plugin — Mykyta Semenistyi walks you through creating your first Grunt (the build system) plugin so that you’ll be prepared to build plugins of your own.
Flippin’ Awesome
Watching
What’s an Object in JavaScript? — An easy to follow 7 minute video from Head First JavaScript Programming Teasers. Perfect for beginners/people not closely familiar with JavaScript’s object model.
Design Technologist, Amazon’s Display Ads — As a front-end lead you will work directly with UX Designers and developers to implement consistent and modular components in HTML/CSS, and use JavaScript to bring them to life with responsive, adaptive, data-driven interactivity.
Amazon.com
JavaScript Senior Developer (Barcelona, Spain) — MailTrack.io is looking for a JavaScript Senior Developer to work on our Chrome Extension team in a well funded start-up in sunny Barcelona.
LoopBack: A New Node.js Framework by StrongLoop — Use a command line based wizard to create REST APIs based around models. Includes role-based access controls. Connect to a variety of backend data stores. If you want more like this, don’t forget Node Weekly.
Breaking Development: Beyond The Desktop – Nashville, TN July 28-30 — BD Conf is a single track conference that blends conceptual and practical with keynote talks that will give you info you can take to work the next day as well as new ideas that force you to think bigger and more long term about how you design and build for the web.