This week's JavaScript news, issue 253

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 253 — October 9, 2015 10 Interview Questions Every JS Developer Should Know Eric is one of the most genuine folks I know in our scene and there are a lot of good insights here for both employees and candidates alike. Eric Elliott Quick[select]: jQuery Plugin for Quicker 'Select' Selection Expands form input 'select' boxes into a horizontal range of selections plus an overflow, making many options be selectable in one click. EggBox Immutable Data Structures and JavaScript Well written thoughts on the benefits and practicality of immutability and things to consider when leaning on it in JavaScript. James Long Plug Email Into Your App with Mailgun Send email in your language of choice like Java using SMTP or Mailgun's RESTful API. The first 10,000 emails are free. Read our documentation and start testing now. Mailgun   Sponsored React v0.14 Released They’ve split the main package into two: react and react-dom, paving the way to writing components that can be shared between the web version of React and React Native. Has a few breaking changes, but if your code ran warning-free in 0.13 you’re mostly good. Facebook Creating Desktop Applications with Angular and Electron A complete step by step walkthrough of building a simple desktop app using GitHub’s Electron project. Jasim Muhammed Asynchronous APIs Using the Fetch API and ES6 Generators See how the Fetch API can be used in conjunction with generators to build asynchronous APIs. SitePoint Getting Started with Emscripten Microsoft’s Dave Voyles looks at the process behind using Emscripten to compile a C/C++ program to JavaScript on Windows. Dave Voyles ElixirScript: Converts Elixir to JavaScript Elixir is a Ruby-inspired language that works on the Erlang VM. This project currently converts a subset of Elixir code to JavaScript. Bryan Joseph Jobs JavaScript Developers (San Francisco)Jut is building a platform that provides coders with programmable views of their streaming data. Our interactive data environment is built fully in JavasScript. If you like pushing the limits with super bright teams, take a look at Jut. Early stage, Accel backed and big equity. Jut.io Senior JavaScript EngineerWe're looking for a Senior JavaScript Engineer to help us evolve both our consumer and resort-facing desktop and mobile products. If you have deep experience with CSS, JS, and building front-end web applications, come join us! (A passion for skiing or snowboarding is just a plus). Liftopia Want to spend less time job searching? Apply to the best startups in 60 seconds.If you’re accepted, startup decision-makers will email you as soon as next Monday. You decide where to interview and where to work. Now open in SF, NYC, and remote. Join the Underdog.io platform today! Underdog.io In brief Ember.js 2.1 and 2.2 Beta Released news A minor version release of Ember with additive features only.   Ember.js OSCON for €99.00 news OSCON is happening in just a few weeks on 26–28 October in Amsterdam. If you thought you couldn’t go, think again. We now have the OSCON Pavilion Plus Pass. Not only do you get to choose two sessions to attend, you also get access to all of this.  O'Reilly   Sponsored A Free JavaScript Meetup in Delhi, India news  Meetup Enumerability in ECMAScript 6 tutorial  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Using CMD+Enter To Submit A Form In Angular.js tutorial  Ben Nadel How To Write a Pac-Man Game in JavaScript tutorial Dates from 2004, but well written and an interesting look back at where we were.   N. Landsteiner Lose the jQuery Bloat ­— DOM Manipulation with NodeList.js tutorial  Edwin Reynoso Intercepting Method Calls via ES6 Proxies tutorial  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Prepare for Angular 2: In-depth look at Angular 2 Style Components with Angular 1  As a follow-up to our last blog post in this series, we show you how to structure new or existing applications with different component types, namely Dumb and Smart components, so they’re not obsolete with the transition to Angular 2.  Rangle.io   Sponsored Async/Await: The Hero JavaScript Deserved tutorial  Eddie Zaneski Go Faster with Angular video 10 minute lightning talk from someone leading a 15 strong team using Angular.   Ben Godfrey Node.js and ES6 Instead of Java – A War Story opinion node  eBay Dev Blog 3 JavaScript ORMs You Might Not Know tools node  SitePoint react-date-range: React Component for Choosing Dates and Date Ranges code  Adphorus [be]lazy.js: A Lazy Loading and Multi-Serving Image Script    Mercer: 3D Data Visualization Library using Three.js code  gmarland Chunkify: A Functional API to Unblock Your JavaScript code Helps you prevent long-running scripts from blocking the thread. Has a live demo.   Victor Alvarez jsGrid v1.2.0: A Lightweight Data Grid jQuery Plugin code  Artem Tabalin StickyStack.js: jQuery Plugin that Sticks/Stacks Panels As They Scroll By code  mike zarandona 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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