This week's JavaScript news, issue 256

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 256 — October 30, 2015 Upgrading Apps to Angular 2 using ngUpgrade You don’t need to upgrade your Angular 1 apps to Angular 2, but if you do, here are some insights and a process to follow. Pascal Precht Babel 6.0.0 Released: Now a General Tooling Platform Once known as solely an ES6-to-ES5 compiler, Babel is now a plugin-based general JavaScript tooling platform. This is a big shift. Babel 18 Talk Videos from ReactRally 2015 From using GraphQL and WebGL with React, to Falcor and webpack. YouTube Learn AngularJS Online with 1-on-1 Mentorship Angular lets you build dynamic, single-page web applications from scratch that are so smooth your users will forget they're still inside a web browser. Sign up online and start learning today! Thinkful   Sponsored Protip: Yet Another jQuery Tooltip Plugin A good looking one though, and the live customizable demo on the homepage is a superb feature. Victor Vincent Poll: Are You Using ES6 for Most of Your JS Work Yet? With 172k @JavaScriptDaily followers, we decided to test the new ‘poll’ feature. So far only 32% claim to be using ES6 for most of their work. Twitter ES6: What's New In The Next Version Of JavaScript Not exactly new ground, but this article from Smashing Magazine provides a good, quick code-driven overview. Lars Kappert RegExp.prototype.unicode: What's Up with Unicode in JS? Mathias Bynens looks at the many problems related to Unicode in JavaScript regular expressions, how ES6 helps, and how to fix issues you run into. JSConf EU 2015 Transpiling C/C++ to JavaScript with Emscripten A straightforward tutorial on compiling some simple C programs to JavaScript (on Windows 10 but OS X and Linux work similarly). SitePoint Jobs (Senior) JavaScript Developer (m/f) at ShoreShore 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 Principal Javascript Developer at Brightcove (Boston, MA)Join the team that builds video.js, one of the most popular HTML video players on the web. Work with cutting-edge browser APIs, repackage video content on-the-fly, and support a project that web developers love. Brightcove Applications Developer (Pasadena, CA)IPAC, the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, is a partner in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and is developing the Science User Interface and Tools (SUI/T) for science community access to the data. California Institute of Technology In brief Node 5.0.0 Released node news  Rod Vagg Vue.js 1.0 Released: Reactive Components for Modern Web Interfaces news tools  Evan You You Know How to Code, but How Are Your Design Skills? course Learn UI & UX design through part-time, online courses with 1-on-1 mentorship from expert designers.  Designlab   Sponsored Using React with Webpack Tutorial tutorial  Christian Alfoni A JavaScript Modules Manager That Fits in a Tweet tutorial  Baptiste Fontaine Mastering ES6 Higher-Order Functions for Arrays tutorial  Tiago Romero Garcia Creating a SCRUD System Using jQuery, JSON and DataTables tutorial  SitePoint Debuggable JavaScript in Production with Source Maps tutorial  Ben Vinegar ServiceWorker and Progressive Networking tutorial  Nicolas Bevacqua Why You Shouldn’t Style React Components With JavaScript opinion  James K Nelson How Is JS Used Within the Spotify Desktop App? opinion It turns out Spotify’s desktop client UI is entirely JavaScript.   Quora Please, Don’t Commit Commented Out Code opinion  Kent C Dodds React Cheat Sheet tools  Michael Chan Visualize and correlate metrics from across your entire stack tools Easily collect, graph, and alert on metrics from NGINX, Apache, Varnish, ELB, HAProxy, and 100+ other technologies  Datadog   Sponsored canvid.js: Tiny Library to Play 'Videos' on Canvas Elements code Essentially plays many small JPEG frames. Helps get around autoplay restrictions of videos.   Neal: React.js-powered Declarative Landing Pages code A collection of React components to quickly build landing pages.   Denny Britz Quill: A Cross Browser Rich Text Editor with an API code Open sourced by Salesforce.com.   Quill Purdy: Pretty Print Objects with Colors code node A lot like Ruby’s awesome_print.   Daniel Bretoi ngclipboard: An Angular Directive to Copy Text to Clipboard without Flash code  Sachin N 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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