This week included significant updates to Bootstrap and CoffeeScript. In addition, NodeJX, srcN-polyfill and extractCSS were new projects that seemed to garner a lot of attention.
Bootstrap 3.1.0 was released and includes three new templates: Blog, Cover, and Dashboard.
Bootstrap
NodeJX is a fork of Node.js that supports multithreading.
What is nodeJX?
The srcN-polyfill is a responsive images polyfill that mimics the proposed srcN syntax.
srcn-Polyfill
vue.js is a module friendly JavaScript library providing MVVM data bindings.
vue.js
extractCSS is a tool that extracts ids, classes and inline styles from a HTML document and outputs as a stylesheet.
extractCSS – Online CSS Extractor
CoffeeScript 1.7 includes a number of improvements including improved error message, source maps and stack trackes.
CoffeeScript
veinjs is a jQuery plugin that injects CSS definitions into a document dynamically.
veinjs
Oimo.js is a 3D physics engine for JavaScript based on OimoPhysics for ActionScript 3.0.
Oimo.js
Hackify is a collaborative, cloud-based IDE that is built on Node and installed via npm.
Hackify
EdisonJS is a JavaScript router that encourages building single-page applications as a series of parent-child relationships.
EdisonJS
Spectra is a JavaScript library for manipulating and converting colors.
Spectra
Brian Rinaldi is the founder of Flippin’ Awesome. Brian works as the Developer Content Manager at Telerik (though this site is not affiliated with his employer) focused on ensuring that the Developer Relations team creates top notch content for the web development community. Previously, Brian focused on publishing HTML, CSS and JavaScript developer content for the Adobe Developer Connection at Adobe.
Brian has published in a variety of technical publications over the years, has presented at numerous conferences and events and has served as a technical editor on a number of books.
You can read Brian’s blog archive with 9+ years of content at remotesynthesis.com (he still posts, infrequently). You can find a full list of Brian’s past publications and presentations. Follow Brian on Twitter @remotesynth.
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