This week's JavaScript news, issue 255

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 255 — October 23, 2015 rollup.js: A JavaScript Module Bundler Author your app or library using ES2015 modules, then efficiently bundle them up into a single file for use in browsers and Node.js. Oskar Segersvärd Arrow This: Clearing Up Confusion over Arrow Functions What do ES6’s ‘arrow functions’ do with this, arguments, super and scoping in general? Kyle Simpson Trix: A WYSIWYG Text Editor for Everyday Web Writing A CoffeeScript-based text editor for the Web built for use in the next version of Basecamp. There’s a live demo if you want to see it in action. Basecamp New @getify Workshop: Functional-Lite to Asynchronous JS Get a primer in functional programming and then dive into wrangling "callback hell" with better patterns for asynchronous programming like Generators, Observables and CSP. Join us LIVE November 5th & 6th (online or in-person) Frontend Masters   Sponsored Angular 2 in Plain JS - No ES6, No TypeScript Want to take a look at Angular 2, but are put off by TypeScript or ES6? Dave Ceddia looks at things from a ‘plain’ ES5 perspective and provides some exercises to try. Dave Ceddia Choosing a Framework: Angular vs Ember vs React Overviews of Ember 2.0, React 0.14, and the in-the-works Angular 2, and a brief and mostly subjective comparison, though “there is no clear winner.” Smashing Boxes Experimenting with Object.observe in JavaScript Object.observe is a proposed ECMAScript 7 (ES7) feature available in Chrome and the latest Node that lets a function be notified of changes made to a designated object. David Voyles The Viability of JS Frameworks on Mobile Are the popular web frameworks suitable for building mobile pages? How do we address the poor performance of mobile web apps on mobile devices? Henrik Joreteg jQuery Tips Everyone Should Know Or “A collection of simple tips to help up your jQuery game.” Matt Smith Jobs Developer Evangelist (Mobile, JavaScript) - GlobalWe believe in high quality mobile apps written in JavaScript. Looking for a challenge? Join us for a fresh work environment with exceptional colleagues. EclipseSource JavaScript Developers at X-Team (Remote)We're looking for developers with extensive knowledge of JavaScript. The perfect candidate would be highly skilled in different frameworks and libraries. We are 100% remote and we provide the funding needed to help you achieve your goals and grow as a remote developer. X-Team Tired of Getting Bad Job Offers? Get Top German Companies to Compete For YouNever miss any job opportunity and get your dream job without searching for it. You’ll know all important information in advance: salary, tech stack & perks. Get started today! 4scotty In brief Help your team understand Angular 2.0 with a free, live workshop course Experts will discuss components, design patterns & migration strategies. Join with your team online or in-person.  Thinkful   Sponsored A Beginner's Guide to Currying in Functional JavaScript tutorial  SitePoint Building Multilingual Support into an Angular App tutorial  Ahmad Ajmi Building a Real-Time Chess Game with Socket.io tutorial A complete tutorial of building a simple chess game backed by a Node server.   David Washington An ECMAScript 6 Destructuring Gotcha tutorial  Nicholas C Zakas Why Is There A “Temporal Dead Zone” in ES6? tutorial  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Better Assertions for Shallow-Rendered React Components tutorial  James Friend ECMAScript Proposal: Function-Callable Classes tutorial  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer What's New in Ember 2.0? tutorial  SitePoint How to Use Modernizr Responsibly tutorial  Jérémy Heleine Building an RSS Bot for Telegram with AWS Lambda tutorial  Julien Genestoux Understanding ES6 Arrow Functions for jQuery Developers video  Wes Bos Best Practices for Using Promises in JS opinion  Oleksii Rudenko Why I’m Not Staking My Future on MeteorJS opinion  Calvin Froedge You Might Not Need Gulp.js opinion  Konstantin Tarkus Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript opinion  Jiawei Li The Official Angular Cheat Sheets tools  Angular 2 ways of testing: where you wait for tests to finish... and wallaby.js tools Instant feedback from your tests in JavaScript (ES6/ES7)/TypeScript/CoffeeScript. Now in Atom editor too.  Wallaby.js   Sponsored Khan Academy's React Style Guide tools  Khan Academy Photon: An Electron UI Kit for Building Beautiful Apps with HTML and JS tools  Connor Sears valid.js: A Simple Library for Data Validation code  Daniel Leite de Oliveira react-dom-stream: A Streaming Server-Side Rendering Library for React code node “Streams make this library as much as 47% faster in sending down a full page than ReactDOM.renderToString”   Sasha Aickin 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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