Javascript User Group

This group is for people developing Javascript projects in the context of genetic problems. We hope to share best practices and programming ideas to make everyone's job easier

Meeting and Agendas

We will meet Wednesdays at 1pm.

• Javascript User Group Minutes for 28 Aug 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 9 Sep 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 16 Sep 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 23 Sep 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 7 Oct 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 14 Oct 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 21 Oct 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 4 Nov 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 18 Nov 2015
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 27 Jan 2016
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 10 Feb 2016
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 17 Feb 2016
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 16 Mar 2016
• Javascript User Group Minutes for 13 Apr 2016

Possible Discussion Topics

• Style guides
  • CSG Coding Styles
  • JSHint
  • ESLint
  • JSCS (JavaScript Code Style)
  • Google JavaScript Style Guide
  • JQuery Style Guide
  • Crockford's Code Conventions
  • Idiomatic.js
• git best practices
• Code review
• JQuery
• Unit Testing
  • Jasmine
  • Mocha
• Concepts
  • asynchronous javascript (see Nov 4, 2015)
  • Promises (see Oct 14, 2015)
  • Prototypal Interitance (see Jan 27, 2016)
• Plotting Libraries
  • D3
  • HTML5 Canvas
• Other Useful libraries
  • Q Promise Library
  • Reactive Expressions
  • Underscore
  • RequireJS (see Oct 21, 2015)
  • JSON Web Tokens (see Mar 16, 2016)
• Build Systems
  • Bower
  • Grunt
  • Yeoman
• Frameworks
  • Angular (see Oct 7, 2015)
  • React
• Language Variations
  • CoffeeScript (see Feb 10, 2016)
  • TypeScript (see Feb 10, 2016)

Suggested Reading/Watching

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling (slightly focused on React but still useful)
• Stop Writing Javascript Framewords - VID 34:37 (prefer working with DOM standards rather than frameworks)
• Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions - VID 28:38 (responsive, event based UIs)
• http://javascriptweekly.com/
• What the ... JavaScript? --VID 38:16 (Javascript WTFs)
• What the heck is the event loop anyway? -- VID 26:52 (describes how javascript runs and achieves asynchronous-ity)
• Wat -- VID 4:15 (a few JS WTFs) and The WHY of WHAT (why they do that)