This week's JavaScript news, issue 242

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 242 — July 24, 2015 What Do ES6 Modules Export? CommonJS modules export values, while ES6 modules export immutable bindings. This post from Dr. Axel explains what that means. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Announcing TypeScript 1.5 TypeScript 1.5 adds a number of new ES6 features like modules, destructuring, spread, for..of, symbols, computed properties, and let/const. MSDN Blogs Using Graph Theory to Build a Simple Recommendation Engine in JavaScript A quick introduction to graph theory and how to use it to use user behavior to drive recommendations on a site. Keith Horwood We've Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is We're so confident that Hack Reactor Remote Beta students will see success after graduating our program that we let them structure tuition payments to begin after getting a job. Apply today to start our renowned coding school for as little as $2,780. Hackreactor   Sponsored Building Plugins for React Apps An introduction to some techniques for creating modular JavaScript plugins, as well as concepts you can use to create more robust large React apps. Evan Morikawa and Ben Gotow ES6 In Depth: Classes A look at ES6’s syntactic and idiomatic cleanups for an old problem: object constructor creation in JavaScript. Mozilla Hacks VexFlow: HTML5 and JavaScript Music Notation Renderer Open-source music notation renderer supporting HTML5 Canvas and SVG. The Refactoring Tales: Practical Examples of Refactoring JS An online book using four 'tales' to demonstrate practical approaches to refactoring and improving code. Jack Franklin Plotly: JavaScript Graphing Lib Built on D3 and StackGL It deals with time series, scatter plots, log plots, bubble charts, and more. 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Hired.com In brief Phaser 2.4 Released: The Popular HTML5 and JS Gamedev Framework news  Phaser The Pragmatic Bookshelf Publishes 'Web Development Recipes 2nd Edition' news  The Pragmatic Bookshelf ES6 In Depth: Proxies  An in-depth and practical look at a mechanism in ES6 for intercepting access to an object and its properties.   Mozilla Hacks Creating An Isomorphic Blogging App Using React and Flux tutorial  Sandeep Panda Backbone.js Basics: Models, Views, Collections and Templates tutorial  Nick Salloum Currying in JavaScript tutorial  Kevin Ennis Declarative Data Fetching in React Components with Baobab tutorial  Denis Koltsov The 5 ES7 Decorators I Want to Use Now opinion  Zack Argyle Speeding Up Our JavaScript Test Time 1000x opinion  Shyp Engineering Stop Classifying JavaScript opinion  Peter Jaszkowiak Build Secure User Interfaces with JWTs tools Protect yourself before you wreck yourself. Thwart web vulnerabilities like XSS, MitM attacks, CSRF & more!  Stormpath   Sponsored IronNode: Node.js Debugging with Chrome's DevTools tools node Brings the power of JavaScript debugging within Chrome’s Developer Tools out to Node.   Stephan Ahlf Write in JavaScript, Run Native on Any Device tools Build great, native mobile apps—all from a single JavaScript code base. Get started for free.  Appcelerator Platform   Sponsored Show Me The React: Browser Extension Highlights a Page's React Components tools For both Chrome and Firefox.   Cymen Vig bonsai-c: C to Asm.js Compilation for Humans tools code Unlike Emscripten, bonsai-c is not aimed at porting C code to JavaScript but to let existing JavaScript developers drop to C for ‘heavy lifting.’   Matt Westcott selectivity.js: Modular Select Dropdown Library for jQuery and Zepto code  Arend van Beelen jr. ClickSpark.js: Add Particle Effects to Your JavaScript Events code Looks a bit gimmicky but works well.   YMC AG Mind: Flexible Neural Network Library code Easily create networks that can be trained to make predictions.   Steven Miller html5tooltips.js: Light and Clean Tooltips using CSS3 Animation code  Yevhen Tiurin IoT.js: A Platform for the Internet of Things with JavaScript from Samsung code node  Samsung stream-http: Implementation of Node's Native 'http' Module for the Browser code  John Hiesey Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press. Stop getting JavaScript Weekly : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web © Cooper Press Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK

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