78. Can WebAssembly Make JavaScript Applications As Fast as Compiled Applications? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 56
Updated on: 2015-07-24
Posted on: 2015-07-24
The recent effort to create a specification for a WebAssembly language will allow JavaScript to be compiled to a sort of a lower level assembly language that can eventually run much faster than the original JavaScript code.
This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 56 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked making music on the Web with the recent Web MIDI API, making API generate more compact responses based on the JSON API specification, creating CSS styles with the JavaScript Object to CSS compiler project, using the $ of jQuery without jQuery, the beta release of Node Package Manager (NPM) 3.0, and the advances of EcmaScript 6 implementations that may make JavaScript provide more interesting features for Web development than PHP.
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This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 56 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked making music on the Web with the recent Web MIDI API, making API generate more compact responses based on the JSON API specification, creating CSS styles with the JavaScript Object to CSS compiler project, using the $ of jQuery without jQuery, the beta release of Node Package Manager (NPM) 3.0, and the advances of EcmaScript 6 implementations that may make JavaScript provide more interesting features for Web development than PHP.
Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2015-06-19
Posted on: 2015-06-19
DDOS security attacks can be used to prevent sites from operating at all, but these attacks can also be started from browsers running JavaScript.
JavaScript based DDOS attacks and prevention methods was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 55 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about using source maps to debug minified code using the original sources, building security cameras using Node.js and Tessel, the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDE, converting any Web site to a mobile app using ManifoldJS, among many other JavaScript related topics of interest.
Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.
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JavaScript based DDOS attacks and prevention methods was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 55 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about using source maps to debug minified code using the original sources, building security cameras using Node.js and Tessel, the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDE, converting any Web site to a mobile app using ManifoldJS, among many other JavaScript related topics of interest.
Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2015-05-16
Posted on: 2015-05-15
EcmaScript 6 added many features that seem to make JavaScript code based based on ES6 can make it look more like to PHP. That was one conclusion reached by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 54 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about BabelJS project that allows running EcmaScript 6 based code run on browsers that are still based on EcmaScript 5, strategies to deal with multiple conflicting AJAX calls and fixing your PHP code to deal with parallel AJAX requests, simple inheritance in EcmaScript 5 based JavaScript, and how to detect if your PHP code was minified.
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They also talked about BabelJS project that allows running EcmaScript 6 based code run on browsers that are still based on EcmaScript 5, strategies to deal with multiple conflicting AJAX calls and fixing your PHP code to deal with parallel AJAX requests, simple inheritance in EcmaScript 5 based JavaScript, and how to detect if your PHP code was minified.
Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2015-04-21
Posted on: 2015-04-21
Defensive programming is an approach to minimize problems in software caused by unexpected situations. Defensive programming in JavaScript was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 53 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the existing JavaScript Linting tools, the state of the Chrome developer tools, impressive libraries that can sense user motion using the Doppler effect, or to detect nudity in pictures using HTML 5 canvas, etc..
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They also talked about the existing JavaScript Linting tools, the state of the Chrome developer tools, impressive libraries that can sense user motion using the Doppler effect, or to detect nudity in pictures using HTML 5 canvas, etc..
Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2015-03-17
Posted on: 2015-03-17
Google SoundScript aims to perform optimizations in JavaScript OOP code executed by the V8 engine (Chrome, Node.js, etc..) that can make it run faster.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 52 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about tips to write faster JavaScript that you can check using the JSPerf site, how NativeScript works, the Node.js Foundation initiative, the IO.js project roadmap and the possible reconciliation of Node.js and IO.js.
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That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 52 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about tips to write faster JavaScript that you can check using the JSPerf site, how NativeScript works, the Node.js Foundation initiative, the IO.js project roadmap and the possible reconciliation of Node.js and IO.js.
Listen now to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the text transcript to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2015-01-16
Posted on: 2015-01-16
JavaScript implementations based on the specification of ECMAScript 7 will provide means to deal with asynchronous activities as if they were blocking activities, thus without using callback functions to handle the responses.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 50 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about planing front-end based JavaScript applications, creating your own Prezi like sites with BigPicture.js, discovering what JavaScript libraries are used in each site with LibScore, and find out what JavaScript developers have been looking for in 2014 with the JavaScript Zeitgeist initiative.
Listen now to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the text transcript to learn more about these and other interesting topics related with JavaScript development discussed in this episode.
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That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 50 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about planing front-end based JavaScript applications, creating your own Prezi like sites with BigPicture.js, discovering what JavaScript libraries are used in each site with LibScore, and find out what JavaScript developers have been looking for in 2014 with the JavaScript Zeitgeist initiative.
Listen now to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the text transcript to learn more about these and other interesting topics related with JavaScript development discussed in this episode.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2014-12-19
jQuery 3.0 plans were announce recently. What to expect from this release of this popular JavaScript library was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 49 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the Firefox Developer Edition suite, connecting hardware devices with Cylon.js, security issues caused by confusing pictures with JavaScript files, etc..
Listen now to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the text transcript to learn more about these and other interesting topics related with JavaScript development discussed in this episode.
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They also talked about the Firefox Developer Edition suite, connecting hardware devices with Cylon.js, security issues caused by confusing pictures with JavaScript files, etc..
Listen now to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the text transcript to learn more about these and other interesting topics related with JavaScript development discussed in this episode.
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Updated on: 2014-11-21
Posted on: 2014-11-21
Tools like JSHint and JSLint are very useful to detect possible problems in your code, but when you have many of the same mistakes to fix, it would be useful if there was a tool to repair your code automatically.
The FixMyJS tool does that and it was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 48 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about hardware devices that are powered by JavaScript based software in 2014, recommendations for JavaScript best practices, improving your site performance with the information from the navigation timing API, a JavaScript version code compatibility checker, and a new JavaScript best package recommendation system, and other topics.
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The FixMyJS tool does that and it was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 48 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about hardware devices that are powered by JavaScript based software in 2014, recommendations for JavaScript best practices, improving your site performance with the information from the navigation timing API, a JavaScript version code compatibility checker, and a new JavaScript best package recommendation system, and other topics.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the text audio transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2014-10-17
Recently it was released a plugin for MySQL that allows JavaScript code to easily access MySQL servers and execute queries using HTTP as transport and JSON as data exchange format.
That is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 47 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about other topics like the end of development of YUI, several types of interesting new JavaScript libraries, using a single object parameter as object constructor, etc..
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That is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 47 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about other topics like the end of development of YUI, several types of interesting new JavaScript libraries, using a single object parameter as object constructor, etc..
Now listen to the podcast, watch the hangout video, or read the podcast transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.
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Updated on: 2014-09-17
Posted on: 2014-09-17
Despite it is not a new thing, enhanced Web components based on custome HTML tabs seem to be finally be picking up in major sites like GitHub. This was one of the main topics covered by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 46 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about new JavaScript API being drafted to take better advantage of mobile device features, the new version of JavaScript V8 engine, making pages react faster by predicting user actions with AIM library, smart content scraping with Unfluff.js, comparing HTML strings with DOM Comparator, loading single page apps faster with the Pegasus lbrary, etc..
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these and other very interesting JavaScript topics.
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They also talked about new JavaScript API being drafted to take better advantage of mobile device features, the new version of JavaScript V8 engine, making pages react faster by predicting user actions with AIM library, smart content scraping with Unfluff.js, comparing HTML strings with DOM Comparator, loading single page apps faster with the Pegasus lbrary, etc..
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these and other very interesting JavaScript topics.
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