Javascript_I.md

Staying up to date as (Frontent) Web Developer:

• Nettuts
• Nettuts Premium
• SitePoint
• DailyJS
• SmashingMag
• HowToNode
• BadassJS - "A showcase of awesome JavaScript that pushes the boundaries of what's possible on the web"
• JSOO - Examples for interesting JS Projects -because we are interested in everything! :)

JavaScript Best Practices, Patterns

• Addy Osmani, Learning JavaScript Design Patterns - O'Reilly - free eBook
• Nicolas Bevacqua, JavaScript Application Design - A Build First Approach
• The Twelve Factor-App
• Trevor Burnham, Async Javascript
• Large Scale JavaScript Application Patterns (Talks by Nicholas Zakas) one, two
• LetsCodeJavascript - Thanks Christian :)

Structure

• AuraJS - "Declarative component sugar for event-driven RequireJS apps"
• ScaleApp - "scaleApp is a tiny JavaScript framework for scalable and maintainable One-Page-Applications / Single-Page-Applications. The framework allows you to easily create complex web applications."
• Terrifically - "TerrificJS provides you a Scalable Javascript Architecture, that helps you to modularize your jQuery/Zepto Code in a very intuitive and natural way"

Frameworks

• TodoMVC - "Helping you select an MV* Framework"
• ListOfMinimalFrameworks - Nice collection of minimal frameworks for a range of languages
• MicroJS - Because we hate jQuery and other do-it-all libraries, we can be more selective.

Backbone

• backbonejs.org
• Addy Osmani, Backbone Fundamentals - O'Reilly - free eBook
• Backbone Tutorials Collection of Tutorials, also as an eBook

Backbone.Marionette

• marionettejs.com
• Smashing Mag. - Introduction to Backbone Marionette
• Backbone Rails(http://www.backbonerails.com/) - Series of pragmatic tutorials to build a full stack structured web application (on the basis of Rails)
• Marionette - A Gentle Introduction, Leanpub - development of a full SPA with Marionette

AngularJS

• Project Website

EmberJS

• Project Website

Polymer

• Project Website

Web Components

• W3C Working Draft

Testing

• Nettuts - TDD Terminology
• Nettuts - Testing with Jasmine
• Nettuts - Testing with PhantomJS
• Nettuts - Coffeescript Testing with Mocha

Mocha and Friends

• Mocha Testing Framework
• Chai Assertion Library BDD / TDD Assertion Library für should, expect, assert
• Sinon.JS Spies/Stubs/Mocks

Jasmine

• Jasmine All-in-One BDD Testing Framework

Tools:

• Yeoman Workflows and generators for scaffolding web applications and modules
• Grunt Task runner for Node
• GulpJS Streaming Build System for Node (the new kid on the block)
• Bower Dependency management for your web components
• Component Package management and build tool on the basis of 'RequireJS'

Module Loader:

• RequireJS / AMD
• CommonJS
• Writing Modular JavaScript With AMD, CommonJS & ES Harmony - What is all this module business about?

Coffeescript:

• coffeescript.org
• Coffeescript Cookbook - kleine Sammlung
• Alex MacCaw, The Little Book on CoffeeScript, O'Reilly - free eBook
• Smooth CoffeeScript
• Reginald Braithwaite, CoffeeScript Ristretto, Leanpub - Functional Development with CS, very easy read. (for JavaScript see also 'JavaScript Allongé')
• Mark Bates, Programming in CoffeeScript - Addison-Wesley - Short and compact introduction to CoffeeScript and Testing, Node, Backbone with Coffeescript.
• Diskussion CoffeeScript und Zukunft - Maybe you should not use CoffeeScript after all?

Other Dialects / Languages

• TypeScript - Transpiler
• LiveScript - Transpiler
• Dart Language - Relatively new Web-Language for Scalable Web App Engineering promoted Google
• Traceur - Compiles ES Next to 'JS now'