A functional reactive library, a new web browser and a new-school take on old school build processes. I hope that people find something interesting here. Flyd https://github.com/paldepind/flyd The minimalistic but powerful, modular, functional reactive programming library in JavaScript. With reactive programming being in vogue at the moment, there are a number of libraries popping up in various languages. I’m certainly no expert, but I like the API on this one. Quite functional (and therefore very composable) with a number of convenient optional modules you can pull in.

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Apologies, I’ve been out of the office for a while and I’ve fallen behind. I’ve been building up a backlog of links though, and so there should be a fairly steady stream for the next while. RethinkDB http://rethinkdb.com/ An open-source distributed database built with love. RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.

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Sorry for the lack of links being sent out lately, my backlog was looking pretty bare for a bit and I wasn’t really getting much time to do anything about it. Hopefully, these links will make up for it. A bit of variety today to wean people back into it. StackEdit https://stackedit.io/ An online markdown editor which uses the same engine as StackOverflow. Allows you to access your various cloud files and can publish content to various blogs as well as export to PDF.

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Happy Friday everyone Today there is a bit of a customer engagement theme to my links. Apostle.io http://apostle.io/ Manage your transactional emails without needing a developer. Does your web app send emails? Would you like to better manage and track engagement with these emails? Then check out Apostle.io. cloudcannon http://cloudcannon.com/ A CMS for static sites without the CMS. I haven’t tried this yet personally, but I know I’ve created sites for people in the past where this would have been ideal.

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Welcome to 2015 and what will hopefully be a year of technological excitement. Hopefully I can start things off relatively well with a couple of micro JavaScript libraries that I’ve found that I think are exciting. page.js http://visionmedia.github.io/page.js/ There are lots of JavaScript frameworks which provide routing capabilities, but what if you only need a router, and not a framework. Then take a look at page.js which is just that in a tiny package.

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This is the last one of these posts for 2014. I hope you have enjoyed them. Today is another mixed bag with a Kickstarter link, and a couple of IaaS links. Wipebook 3 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1470156778/wipebook-3 A notebook with whiteboard pages, so you can take your brainstorming with you or simply reuse your notebook over and over. You can already buy the previous versions of the Wipebook on their main site, http://www.wipebook.com

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A geeky product, a non-geeky product and a link of links. Hopefully a bit of something for everyone. Fenix Webserver http://fenixwebserver.com/ Host multiple static sites on your machine with ease. Simplifies the management of different sites on your local machine over Apache, IIS or nginx. Also has a request watcher and data stub functionality so would certainly be useful for people developing browser based applications while working on the UI.

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A couple of JS MVC frameworks which seem interesting and promising. And a small focused library for adding instructional elements to a page. Mithril http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ Aside from the nice Lord of the Rings reference, this tiny JavaScript MVC framework has a lot of promise. It provides a core set of feature which are useful for a lot of applications. It seems that some developers are switching away from AngularJS for Mithril, and the timing is right as many devs are still up in arms over the recent AngularJS 2.

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Another web API related link and a couple of JavaScript-only database implementations. Honey https://github.com/oliverpicton/honey Uses the API Blueprint format to generate an ASP.NET Web Api or the other way around. Useful for documenting your existing web API, or for creating an implementation after designing the API using something like Apiary or any other tool which creates API Blueprints. LokiJS http://lokijs.org A fast, in-memory document-oriented datastore for node.js and browser. Has Mongo and CouchDB style features with a focus on performance.

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Today’s links focus around the process of designing and implementing a web-based API. A couple of tools and a spec for defining, documenting and mocking out an API. Deflect.io http://www.deflect.io Deflect.io is an online tool plus browser plugin which lets your record your ajax calls and then play them back later. It also allows you to define different states which can be used to test your front-end application without the need for the server.

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