Best of JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3 - Week of April 30, 2012

Best of JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3 - Week of April 30, 2012:
This week features a lot of outstanding content including a number of new libraries and microlibraries this week as well as a couple tutorials on Adobe Shadow, jQuery Mobile, CoffeeScript and Node among others. Plus, the second issue of Appliness, the digital magazine for developers, is out and includes lots of great articles including original content. I definitely recommend checking it out. As always, if you want to get these updates as I discover them, follow me on Twitter or Facebook.

Tutorials

This is a cool real-world example and tutorial of the HTML5 FileSystem API from Raymond Camden

Real-world example of the HTML5 FileSystem API

I walk through getting started with browser testing across multiple devices with Adobe Shadow

Browser Testing Across Devices with Adobe Shadow

Improve form usability by enhancing required form fields with CSS3 via Mary Lou

Enhance Required Form Fields with CSS3

Pamela Fox shows how to trigger numeric keyboards with HTML5 on iOS and Android (and hide the spinner on Chrome)

Triggering Numeric Keyboards with HTML5

See how Adobe Shadow can simplify your device browser testing workflow in this complete video tour including integration with LiveReload by Christian Cantrell

A Complete Tour of Adobe Shadow in 10 Minutes (including integration with LiveReload)

An excellent, comprehensive guide to JavaScript style guides and beautifiers by Addy Osmani

JavaScript Style Guides And Beautifiers

Frameworks and Libraries

Learn how to unit test your JavaScript applications using BDD with Jasmine by Dustin Butler

Unit test JavaScript applications with Jasmine

A getting started guide for building a NPM package for Node.JS via Ryan Neufeld

Building a bare-bones NPM package

Get started with Node.js on Windows in the first in a series of tutorials from Alex Young.

Windows and Node: Getting Started

Jack Franklin shows how to learn a little CoffeeScript by using it to build a jQuery Plugin

A jQuery Plugin in CoffeeScript

Christophe Coenraets shares a single-page CRUD sample application built with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap

Single-Page CRUD Application with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap

A nice comparison of the Spine and Backbone JavaScript MVC frameworks by Hjörtur Hilmarsson

Spine.js vs Backbone.js

Mobile

An example and explanation of using Intents with PhoneGap from Raymond Camden

Example of Intents with PhoneGap

New and Updated Frameworks and Libraries

HJ is a compiler for a subset of Haskell to JavaScript.

HJ — Haskell-to-JavaScript compiler

JSCheck is a specification-driven JavaScript testing tool by Douglas Crockford

JSCheck

Laconic is a lightweight library for generating DOM content using JavaScript

Laconic DOM Library

CanvasJS is a small JavaScript helper library for the canvas 2d API

CanvasJS

Doppio is a project to get Java running in the browser without any plug-ins. Built with CoffeeScript.

DoppioVM: A JVM in Coffeescript

Keymaster is a JavaScript micro-library with no dependencies for defining & dispatching keyboard shortcuts

keymaster

PhoneGap 1.7.0 is released including tons of bug fixes and support for Bada 2.0.

PhoneGap 1.7.0 Released!

Microsoft shares an open source Windows Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile

Announcing the open source Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile

Etc.

Latest issue of Appliness magazine for developers is out with tons of great content like an interview with Pamela Fox.

Download the second issue

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