This week's JavaScript news, issue 252

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 252 — October 2, 2015 Somehow we have over 500 new subscribers this week, so welcome to you all! And a long overdue thanks to all readers. We're just shy of 90,000 subscribers now, in no small part thanks to you sharing and mentioning the newsletter, and it's much appreciated :-) - Peter Cooper, Editor Clipboard.js: Flash-Free Copy to Clipboard Functionality An attempt to make it easy to copy text to the clipboard via JavaScript. Works in all major browsers, though with a workaround for Safari. Just 2KB too. Zeno Rocha Customizing ES6 via Well-Known Symbols In ES6, you can tweak how objects are treated in numerous situations by using several so-called ‘well known symbols’. Some intriguing stuff here. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer ESLint: The Next-Generation JavaScript Linter First there was Crockford’s JSLint, then the more configurable JSHint, then.. ESLint which its creator explains and demonstrates in full here. Nicholas C Zakas Start Real Time JavaScript Error Reporting Before You Finish Your Morning Coffee Raygun offers full stack support & detailed diagnostics that enable you to resolve errors fast. You can even contact effected users to let them know it’s sorted. Setup takes minutes, why not make this your most productive coffee break ever? Try Raygun free for 30 days. Raygun   Sponsored The State of JS Performance on Android in 2015 is... Poor The creator of the popular Discourse forum software (which heavily uses Ember) finds Android isn’t keeping up with iOS’s JS performance leaps. Jeff Atwood JavaScript Goes to Asynchronous City A quick look at asynchronous code in JavaScript over time from ES5’s callbacks to ES6’s promises and on to ES7’s ‘async’ functions. David Catuhe A Cartoon Guide to Flux Flux is a pattern for handling data in your application, initially focused on use with React. It can be tricky to understand though, so this guide explains it in a simple, visually-driven way. Lin Clark ES6 Promises in Depth The latest in Nicolas’ dives into ES6’s features. This time promises get the full treatment. Well worth the read. Nicolas Bevacqua Jobs JavaScript Front End Developer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (full time)We are hiring the best Front End developers to join our international top-talent team in Amsterdam. We want YOU to have the freedom to make an impact on millions of users worldwide and keep us innovating. Booking.com JavaScript BadA** Warlord wanted for SumoMe.com (Austin,TX)We eat a ton of tacos, work on a product used DAILY by 35,000,000 people and are changing the world. You get to be your own CEO, have stupidly awesome perks (in house: haircuts, massage and bar in the office), and work on a profitable and quickly growing product, SumoMe.com. If you are one of the best, apply. SumoMe.com Team Lead (m/f) Front-end Architecture at XING (Hamburg, Germany)We are THE social network for business professionals in German-speaking countries. Do you love to provide high-performance web applications and see the immediate impact on the lives of millions of people? Join us at XING. XING AG In brief Official Angular Support in Meteor with angular-meteor 1.0.0 news  Meteor It’s not too late. Get your boss to send you to OSCON news OSCON is happening 26–28 October in Amsterdam. That's only a matter of weeks. Where will you be? If the answer is "at the office, wishing I were at OSCON," we've got a plan. Here's how to get your boss to send you to OSCON.  O'Reilly   Sponsored Concatenating Typed Arrays tutorial Typed arrays don’t have a concat() method like typical arrays do, so…   Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Using the JSCharting Library, A Full Tutorial tutorial (The underlying library is commercial, but the results look great.)  Nicolas Bevacqua Pro JavaScript Concepts for Enterprise Developers tutorial  Telerik Developer Network Debugging Webpack Applications in WebStorm tutorial  JetBrains Introduction to Rendr, Server-Side Rendering for Backbone.js tutorial code Rendr is a library for isomorphic use of Backbone.js, allowing rendering on both client and server.   SitePoint ES6: Methods versus Callbacks tutorial  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer React Data Fetching with Relay tutorial  Kev Zettler Cleaning the Tar: Using React within the Firefox Developer Tools video  James Long, Mozilla How Async Functions in JavaScript Work on Microsoft Edge video A discussion about the implementation of the Async Function specification in Edge.   Channel 9 Using Webpack to Transform JSX video  Michael Chan nginScript: Why is NGINX Creating Its Own JavaScript Implementation? opinion  NGINX Scalable Angular Apps Are Tricky, But Not Impossible. Lessons Learnt From PayPal Checkout opinion  Daniel Brain A Modern React Starter Pack based on Webpack tools  Krasimir Tsonev Free open source REST API backend for JavaScript applications tools DreamFactory released v2 of its versatile and powerful API platform. Free hosted dev sandbox for rapid prototyping.  DreamFactory   Sponsored Document ES6 with ESDoc tools tutorial ESDoc is a documentation generator for JavaScript.   Jonathan Creamer Zepto Builder: Generate A Custom Zepto With The Modules You Need tools  Boye Popmotion: An Animation, Physics and Input Tracking Engine code Used to drive the motion of UIs. It has native support for CSS, DOM attributes, SVG and SVG paths.   Popmotion Ltd Vojvoda: Backbone View Extension for Managing Subviews code  Aleksandar Goševski Video.js 5 Released: The HTML/CSS and JavaScript Web Video Library code Release notes, if you’re interested.   videojs Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press. 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