Take the Most of the Browser While the User is Idle - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 58

By Manuel Lemos

The newest version of Chrome (version 46) introduced a new callback function that allows JavaScript developers to execute background code while the user is idle (for instance reading an article). This feature opens new opportunities for applications to do some creative things.

This is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins that received Artem Salpagarov from Countly in the episode 58 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about the frontend testing with CasperJS, building MVC applications without HTML Templates using Mithril, Node.js 4.0 released as a merge with io.js among other interesting JavaScript discussions.

Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.

The Fetch API to Succeed AJAX (XMLHTTPRequest) - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 57

By Manuel Lemos

A new standard API named Fetch is being specified with the goal to provide a access to remote resources in a way that is more standardized across browsers than XMLHttpRequest (AKA AJAX).

This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 57 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about the performance of the current EcmaScript 6 implementations, the top popular JavaScript libraries, the future of the adoption of Web components, JavaScript framework fatigue, Bower versus NPM, among other JavaScript topics.

Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.

How Can Browser based JavaScript Can Be Abused to Perform DDOS Attacks to Your Servers - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 55

By Manuel Lemos

DDOS security attacks can be used to prevent sites from operating at all, but these attacks can also be started from browsers running JavaScript.

JavaScript based DDOS attacks and prevention methods was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 55 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about using source maps to debug minified code using the original sources, building security cameras using Node.js and Tessel, the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDE, converting any Web site to a mobile app using ManifoldJS, among many other JavaScript related topics of interest.

Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics.

Is JavaScript Becoming PHP? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 54

By Manuel Lemos

EcmaScript 6 added many features that seem to make JavaScript code based based on ES6 can make it look more like to PHP. That was one conclusion reached by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 54 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about BabelJS project that allows running EcmaScript 6 based code run on browsers that are still based on EcmaScript 5, strategies to deal with multiple conflicting AJAX calls and fixing your PHP code to deal with parallel AJAX requests, simple inheritance in EcmaScript 5 based JavaScript, and how to detect if your PHP code was minified.

Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.