Showoffs Welcome!

The SitePoint JavaScript Newsletter Adam Roberts here, filling in. Unfortunately, our enormously talented JavaScript editor Colin Ihrig had to step down recently. We’ll miss him! We’re working on locating a new JavaScript editor soon (if that's you — reply and we'll have a chat!). But until then, you’ve got me for the newsletter portion of the job. Aside from the great range of content in today’s newsletter, one thing I’d like to highlight is our newly-opened Showcasecategory. This is a section of the forums where we invite you all to show off stuff you’ve built — websites, libraries, designs. If it’s cool, and not obviously commercial, we’d love to see it! When I’m not filling in on other people’s newsletters, I also put together our daily email Versioning. Pretty much every day we feature a bunch of awesome JavaScript libraries from talented devs like yourselves, so I figured Showcase would probably appeal to ya’ll the most! Anyway, on to this week’s newsletter, which is filled with great stuff. We have a guide to building a simple image editor with CSS filters and a bit of jQuery, a look at building AngularJS apps with ECMAScript 6, an intro to building mobile apps with Meteor, and more! Enjoy, and I look forward to seeing what incredible internet things you come up with in Showcase! Adam Roberts SitePoint Managing Editor Animated Text with Blast.js Blast.js is a jQuery plugin that allows you to animate individual characters, words, or sentences. Here's Jérémy Heleine with a guide to making your text a blast to read. Read more Animated Layouts with jQuery Plugin MixItUp George Martsoukos introduces MixItUp, a configurable jQuery plugin that allows you to animate filtering and sorting of page content. Read more Writing AngularJS Apps Using ES6 ECMAScript 6 is expected to be finalized soon. But in the meantime, Ravi Kiran shows how to build an Angular app using ES6 features now. Read more Getting Bootstrap and Masonry to Play Nice Bootstrap's Tabs widget does some weird things when you try to use it with grid layout library Masonry. Here's how to fix that. Read more OAuth Integration with Hapi Adam Bretz takes us through setting up OAuth authentication using Hapi, the Node.js server framework. Read more A Beginners Guide to Mobile Development with Meteor Meteor.js is a promising JavaScript framework that comes prepackaged with Cordova support, making it ideal for mobile development. David Turnbull shows it off. Read more 6 Useful Meteor Packages for Almost Every Project Speaking of Meteor, here's David again with some of the best Meteor packages for any project, not just for mobile development. Read more Build a Simple Image Editor with CSS Filters and jQuery Insta-who? In this tutorial, Vikas Lalwani shows us how to build a simple image editor with CSS filters and some help from jQuery. Read more The Pros and Cons of Dependency Injection In the forums this week there's a lively discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of dependency injection. What do you think? Read more We send out our newsletters with Campaign Monitor