This week's JavaScript news, issue 257

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 257 — November 6, 2015 Take The ES6 JavaScript Quiz 13 multiple choice questions on things like bindings, classes, computed properties, and more, await you. Explanations of the answers are available. kangax Object.observe Being Withdrawn As A TC39 Proposal Object.observe was a promising new feature in the forthcoming ES7 standard (and implemented in V8) but which now appears to be withdrawn from consideration by TC39, as well as from V8. ESDiscuss JavaScript Dates, Trains, Passover, and Henry VIII A tour of the history of dates and times which, eventually, moves into how JavaScript deals with their quirks. This is a long read which threads the worlds of technology and politics together well. Curtis Autery Online Angular 2.0 Transition Architecture Training Master the art of writing your applications in Angular 1.x using an approach that makes it easier to convert to Angular 2 tomorrow with this 5 day online training. Attend remotely from anywhere in the world and take advantage of recorded sessions after course completion. Rangle.io   Sponsored A 27 Minute Tour of Next Gen Front End Dev with Scala.js A great introductory talk on Scala.js which compiles Scala code to JavaScript. It’s not commercially supported by Typesafe but is production ready. YouTube What You Should Know about Node.js v5 and More More information on what Node v5 represents versus the v4 LTS release. Subscribe to Node Weekly for more like this. Node Foundation jQuery's Relevancy: There and Back Again Cody Lindley explains why he believes jQuery is still important and relevant, despite the growing noise saying that you don’t need jQuery. Telerik Developer Network The Importance of 'import' and 'export' A very thorough slidedeck that stands up well on its own. It looks at the issues with CommonJS and why ES6/ES2015’s native module system is so vital. Ben Newman Jobs Senior JavaScript Engineer at TwitchTwitch is building the future of interactive entertainment and we’re looking for someone who brings JavaScript application development experience and technical leadership, around whom we can build a focused team to execute on one of our core product areas. Twitch 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 Stop Applying For Jobs. Have Jobs Apply For You.For highly sought-after candidates, sifting through available job opportunities can be overwhelming. Forget applying and let interested companies reach out to you directly through Hired. Hired.com In brief 82% Call It ES6; 18% ES2015 or JavaScript 2015 news  Twitter O'Reilly Fluent 2016 Registration Now Open (Mar 7-10, San Francisco) news  O'Reilly Media $30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots news  TechCrunch Is Angular 2 Ready? news If you want a quick look at progress.. 68 issues must be closed before the first beta.   4-Day Workshop: Algorithms and Data Structures in JavaScript course A practical class for students comfortable with the JavaScript language but who want to level up on their data structures and algorithms knowledge. Join us Nov 17-20th online or in-person.  Frontend Masters   Sponsored Synchronous and Asynchronous Sequential Execution of Functions tutorial  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Building Real-Time Chat with Ember 2 and Pusher tutorial  Jack Franklin Create a GitHub File Explorer Using Vue.js tutorial  Alex Sears How The Guardian Used Service Workers to Build an Offline Page tutorial  The Guardian Converting a Gulp project from ES5 to ES6 with Babel 6.0.0 tutorial  Anthony Sierra Higher Order React Components tutorial  Nat Pryce Observing Changes using ES6 Proxies tutorial May become more relevant given the Object.observe news.  Tobi Reif JavaScript ES6 var, let, or const? opinion  Eric Elliott 7 Reasons to Use Ember.js opinion  Jeffrey Biles Will Angular 2 Be A Success? You Bet opinion  Telerik Developer Network Discover 52 tips to improve your .NET performance  Our new eBook features dozens of tips and tricks to boost your .NET performance. Download your free copy.  Red Gate Software   Sponsored RiotJS 2.3.0 Released: A Step Forward for the React-like Micro-Library code news  Compile OCaml to JavaScript, Run on Node tools node  Edgar Aroutiounian Shift.JS: A Swift to JavaScript Transpiler tools code It’s still at an early stage but works with most of Swift’s syntax.   ShiftJS Revenant: High Level PhantomJS Headless Browsing and Testing API code node  Jia Hao Dragon: An Attempt at Implementing 'Backbone' with Modern Concepts code An interesting experiment.   Chris Abrams Cropper: A Simple jQuery Image Cropping Plugin code  Fengyuan Chen Human Readable JSLinux: Hand De-Obfuscated and Annotated code Based on Fabrice Bellard’s JSLinux x86 emulator.  Anselm Levskaya 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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