This week's JavaScript news, issue 251

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 251 — September 25, 2015 How to Write an Open Source JavaScript Library Series A series of 23 bitesize screencasts (the longest is 6 minutes) covering the process of building and releasing your own library, from setting up GitHub, through to unit testing, publishing with npm, and automatic releases. Kent C. Dodds Promisees: A Visualization Playground for Promises A clever visual demonstration of how promises are processed, returned, and caught. Nicolas Bevacqua A Guide to JavaScript Engines for the Underinformed What’s an engine and what does it do? What steps do JavaScript engines take to run the code they’re given? Jen Looper Token-Based Authentication for Single Page Applications Learn to improve the security of your SPAs using JWTs, HTTPS-only cookies, a CSRF token strategy & more! Stormpath   Sponsored ES6 Strings (and Unicode) in Depth In ES6 it’s a lot easier to check if a string starts, ends with, or includes certain text, and Unicode handling is a little more elegant. Nicolas Bevacqua Creating an Animated Product Slider with Sequence.js A JavaScript library that provides a responsive CSS framework for creating unique sliders, presentations, banners, and other step-based applications. David Walsh ECMAScript Spec Development Has Moved to GitHub “ECMAScript’s development has moved to GitHub and ECMAScript’s specification has moved from Word to Ecmarkup—a custom dialect of HTML” Brian Terlson Learn Raw React (With no JSX, Flux, ES6 or Webpack) If the number of technologies around modern React apps has put you off learning it, this might be the tonic for you. James K Nelson ES6 Array Extensions in Depth One of the most commonly used data structures has received a handful of improvements in ES6, including .find, .keys, .values, and .fill. Nicolas Bevacqua Jobs Full Stack Web Engineer at ExpensifyExpensify seeks a self-driven and collaborative individual passionate about making code beautiful and effective, with a strong understanding of JavaScript, PHP, C++, Java, algorithms, and design patterns. Expensify (Senior) JS Developer (m/f) at Shore (Munich, Germany: relocation covered)Shore is looking for passionate developers who breathe JavaScript. Join a startup & write production-ready ECMAScript 2015 in an agile environment. Promise.resolve('challenge').then((c) => You.accept(c).at(Shore)) Shore GmbH Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO, & JPMorganWork with top clients, set your own rates, and work from anywhere as an elite Toptal developer. Join the most exclusive network of top software engineers in the world. Toptal In brief Announcing Meteor 1.2: ES2015, Angular, React, and More news tools  Meteor nginScript: A JS-Based Scripting Language for NGINX news tools  NGINX OSCON is in Amsterdam, 26-28 October 2015 news OSCON is back in Europe and I’m one of the chairs, so come along :-)   O'Reilly Simplify Directives with Scope Inheritance in AngularJS tutorial  Davide Curletti An Introduction to JavaScript Promises With Node.js tutorial node  Zach Alexander ES6 Features Commonly Used with Functional Style React tutorial  Mikael Brevik Javascript Debugging Tips tutorial Here’s a collection of handy tips you may not know to help speed up Javascript debugging, brought to you by Raygun.   Raygun   Sponsored Building a Date Picker with React JS tutorial  The Dapper Developer __proto__ in ECMAScript 6 tutorial  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Transpiling ES6 Modules to AMD and CommonJS Using Babel and Gulp tutorial  SitePoint Make ES6, Not Coffee opinion An argument for switching back from CoffeeScript to ES6.   Jaakko Salonen ES6 Generators and Asynchronous JavaScript opinion A look at what generators are and why they will eventually dramatically improve your code.   Alexander Perry Initial Impressions on GraphQL and Relay opinion  Arunoda Susiripala NW.js and Electron Compared opinion tools Both can be used to create a native desktop app using JavaScript.   TangibleJS Awesome Promises: A Curated List of Resources about JavaScript Promises tools  Will Binns-Smith The new .NET MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ‘Situation Critical’ tools Find out why ANTS Performance Profiler is the ultimate .NET profiler in a new online adventure. Read it now.  Red Gate Software   Sponsored NativeScript 1.3 Release Is Live tools news The JavaScript native app building toolkit.   Telerik JSCity: Visualizing JS Source Code As Navigable 3D Cities code tools  Applied Software Engineering Research Group queryl: Query Language to Perform Complex Object Searches code  IssueTrack react-experiments: Help for Defining and Managing UI Experiments in React code  HubSpot redux-undo: Simple Undo/Redo Functionality for Redux State Containers code  Daniel Bugl XRegExp 3.0.0: Extended JavaScript Regular Expressions code Provides augmented and extensible JavaScript regular expressions.   Steven Levithan 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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