The big news this week came from Microsoft with the open sourcing of WinJS and from TypeScript reaching 1.0.
WinJS is a set of open-source JavaScript toolkits from Microsoft containing sets of UI controls and components.
WinJS
TypeScript 1.0 is available as part of Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Web Express 2013 Spring Update, as an npm package, and as source.
Announcing TypeScript 1.0
QuoJS is a micro JavaScript library designed for mobile including touch events/gestures, DOM manipution and more.
QuoJS – Micro JavaScript Library
Pixi.js 1.5.2 includes CacheAsBitmap and GenerateTexture as well a ton of other updates.
PIxi.js 1.5.2 webGL and Canvas 2d renderer
Mithril is a JavaScript MVC framework for web applications with no dependencies and a simple API.
Mithril
Route is a Node module where you pass a list of cities and get the shortest route and the distance corresponding to that route.
shortest-route
PositionCalculator can calculate the position of an element relative to another element or event.
PositionCalculator
Haste is a dialect of the Haskell that compiles to JavaScript.
Haste
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.