JS api questions

hello I have a project on the go but I am finding the JS api documentation very lacking
I have it working for the most part with the older spark.min.js but I want to update to the new particle.min.js

but there is no examples that seem to make much sense for the new one and they are not just a drop in replacement
granted my programming skills are week but I have some time and I like to tinker

can someone point me in a direction of a repo somewhere or a example of this in use
with a function so I can see how to put it into practical use

If you want to do this from a web page in a browser, as opposed to node.js, I previously wrote up a sample that might be helpful:

thank you for your reply and I probably need more hand holding but

I can not find where you call your particle.callfunction is at all the jquery is almost unreadable but then again I have never used jqurey

ok finally 10 attempts later
why does the preformed text button not just put the tags in for you rather than tell you indent it all 4 spaces

this is what I have so far that works I get what I want to photon but its using the old spark api not the particle one
and I would rather use the current version thats not likely to stop working as fast
and I suspect that a few other bumps I have found might be smoothed out in the newer code

<pre>
<html>
  <head>
      <title>Spark function buttons Example</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    Zone <select class="form-control" id="zOne">
      <option value="1">1</option>
      <option value="2">2</option>
      <option value="3">3</option>
      <option value="4">4</option>
      <option value="5">5</option>
    </select>
    Start Hour <select class="form-control" id="startHour">
      <option value="00">12:00</option>
      <option value="01">1:00</option>
      <option value="02">2:00</option>
      <option value="03">3:00</option>
      <option value="04">4:00</option>
      <option value="05">5:00</option>
      <option value="06">6:00</option>
      <option value="07">7:00</option>
      <option value="08">8:00</option>
      <option value="09">9:00</option>
      <option value="10">10:00</option>
      <option value="11">11:00</option>
    </select>
    <select class="form-control" id="amPm1">
      <option value="00">AM</option>
      <option value="12">PM</option>
    </select>
    Start Minute <select class="form-control" id="startMinute">
      <option value="00">00</option>
      <option value="15">15</option>
      <option value="30">30</option>
      <option value="45">45</option>
    </select>

    Stop Hour <select class="form-control" id="stopHour">
      <option value="00">12:00</option>
      <option value="01">1:00</option>
      <option value="02">2:00</option>
      <option value="03">3:00</option>
      <option value="04">4:00</option>
      <option value="05">5:00</option>
      <option value="06">6:00</option>
      <option value="07">7:00</option>
      <option value="08">8:00</option>
      <option value="09">9:00</option>
      <option value="10">10:00</option>
      <option value="11">11:00</option>
    </select>
    <select class="form-control" id="amPm2">
      <option value="0">AM</option>
      <option value="12">PM</option>
    </select>
        Stop Minute <select class="form-control" id="stopMinute">
      <option value="00">00</option>
      <option value="15">15</option>
      <option value="30">30</option>
      <option value="45">45</option>
    </select>

<br>
<script type="text/javascript">
	function checkTotal() {
		document.daysList.total.value = '';
		var sum = 0;
		for (i=0;i<document.daysList.choice.length;i++) {
		  if (document.daysList.choice[i].checked) {
		  	sum = sum + parseInt(document.daysList.choice[i].value);
		  }
		}
		document.daysList.total.value = sum;
	}
</script>

<form name="daysList">
    <input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="1" onchange="checkTotal()" id="day1"/>Sunday
    <input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="2" onchange="checkTotal()" id="day2"/>Monday
    <input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="4" onchange="checkTotal()" id="day3"/>Tuesday
    <input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="8" onchange="checkTotal()" id="day4"/>Wensday
    <input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="16" onchange="checkTotal()" id="day5"/>Thursday
    <input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="32" onchange="checkTotal()" id="day6"/>Friday
    <input type="checkbox" name="choice" value="64" onchange="checkTotal()" id="day7"/>Saterday
    <input type="hidden" size="3" name="total" id="days" value="0">
  </form>
    <button type="button" onclick="sendValues()">Send values</button>


<br>

    <!--
    <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Stop Hour?" id="stopHour">
    <button type="button" onclick="functionCall('functionName', 'functionArgument')">function 1</button>
    <button type="button" onclick="functionCall('functionName', 'functionArgument')">function 2</button>
    <button type="button" onclick="functionCall('functionName', 'functionArgument')">function 3</button>
    <button type="button" onclick="functionCall('functionName', 'functionArgument')">function 4</button>
    -->

    <script src="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/sparkjs/1.0.0/spark.min.js">  </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">

      //you can use your accesstoken, or your email/passsword to log in. Uncomment accordingly below.

  var accessToken = "real stuff here";
  var deviceID = "real stuff here";

  var zOne;
  var startHour;
  var startMinute;
  var stopHour;
  var stopMinute;
  var amPm1;
  var combinedTime;
  var amPm2;
  var days;
  var timeCalc;

  function sendValues(){
    amPm1 = document.getElementById('amPm1');
    amPm2 = document.getElementById('amPm2');
    zOne = document.getElementById('zOne');
    days = document.getElementById('days');
    startHour = document.getElementById('startHour');
    startMinute = document.getElementById('startMinute');
    stopHour = document.getElementById('stopHour');
    stopMinute = document.getElementById('stopMinute');
    timeCalc =  parseInt(startHour.value,10);
    amPm1 = parseInt(amPm1.value,10);
    amPm1 = timeCalc + amPm1 +'';
    timeCalc = 0;
    timeCalc =  parseInt(stopHour.value,10);
    amPm2 = parseInt(amPm2.value,10);
    amPm2 = timeCalc + amPm2 +'';
    combinedTime = amPm1 + '~' + startMinute.value + '~' + amPm2 + '~' + stopMinute.value + '~' + days.value + '~' + zOne.value;
    console.log(combinedTime);

    functionCall('parse', combinedTime);
    //document.write("string sent to photon <br>");
    //document.write(combinedTime);
    //document.write("<br> start hour ~ start min ~ stop hour ~ stop min ~ zone ~ days");
    startHour.value = '';
    startMinute.value = '';
    stopHour.value = '';
    stopMinute.value = '';
    zOne.value = '';
    days.value = '';
  }


  spark.on('login', function(response) {
    console.log(response);
  });

  // callback to be executed by each core
  var callback = function(err, data) {
    if (err) {
      console.log('An error occurred while getting device attrs:', err);
    } else {
      console.log('Device attr retrieved successfully:', data);
    }
  };

  function functionCall(functionName, functionArgument){
    // The function needs to be defined  in the firmware uploaded to the
    // the Spark core and registered to the Spark cloud, same thing we do
    // with variables. You pass along the name of the function and the params.
    spark.callFunction(deviceID, functionName, functionArgument, callback);
  }

  // Uncomment a line below depending on your preferred log-in method.
  //spark.login({ username: 'email@example.com', password: 'password' });
  spark.login({ accessToken: accessToken });

</script>
  </body>
</html>
</pre>

I know this is pretty simple stuff and I plan on making a pretty UI for it as this goes on but it is a project for me
and while i do plan on sharing it I am making it work for my needs not building a product
so things can be rough and dirty for a while

once I get this working I am sure others will find my stuff useful but its a good size project that I can keep picking away at and learning and thats what I need

I've reformatted your text.
The easiest to insert code blocks is by wrapping them into something like this

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// here comes your C++ block
*(These are so called ***grave accents*** - not to be mistaken for single quotes)*

@Broncosis I’m writing a terminal app that uses the new ParticleJS API. The current version of the code is pretty complex, but this smaller early version should hopefully be reasonably easy to follow:

The current version is here if you want to see what it’s evolved into.

thanks for the help I was able to resolve this after talking with a friend for a bit I will post the new code
in a little bit I need sleep now