This week's JavaScript news, issue 266

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 265 — January 8, 2016 Master the JavaScript Interview: What is a Closure? Eric Elliott kicks off a new series of posts digging into common job interview questions. On the question of closures, he notes: “If you can’t answer this question, you’re a junior developer.” Eric Elliott Setting Up ES6: A New Book by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer It focuses on setting up an ECMAScript 6 based development environment using Babel and is free to read online. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Build Your Own Real-Time Chat App....Fast! Learn how to easily build your own JavaScript chat app. Send real-time messages and more in no time. Join this developer training webinar now. PubNub   Sponsored Preparing for ECMAScript 6: Proxies ES6 proxies sit between your code and the objects being manipulated. They can do things like intercept calls to inspect or change an object’s property. Craig Buckler Pocket-Sized JavaScript (video) JavaScript on the mobile web has a bad rap for low performance, but Henrik argues that by using new techniques like Virtual DOM and Web Workers, we can have blazing fast apps on mobile too. Henrik Joreteg Self-Rewriting Pages for Instant Web Applications A look at an approach for ‘instant’ Web applications that are restored from a Service Worker-based cache. Dr. Gleb Bahmutov OverReact: WYSIWYG Wireframing for React Wireframe basic React components and download a skeleton project for Express or Hapi in one click. Evil Corp The Future of Bundling JavaScript Modules A quick look at how the bundling of modules is affected by two future developments: HTTP/2 and native modules. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Finding a Memory Leak in a Node App A step by step walkthrough of hunting down a memory leak in a Node program. Includes a sample app, and the techniques you’ll need. Alex Kras Jobs Principal Web Developer. Bristol, UKJoin MixRadio if you are an expert web developer with superior front-end skills. Help us improve our speed of execution and architecture. Use ReactJS and ES2015 on cross-disciplined teams to deliver the next best music streaming service. MixRadio Looking for job offers from top companies but hate applying?You're in luck! Through Hired, companies reach out to candidates with your skills and experience and request interviews. Stop applying and let the offers come to you with Hired.  Hired.com In brief Start Your Own JavaScript Library using Webpack and ES6 tutorial  Krasimir Tsonev How to Build a Web App with Backbone.js and Socket.io tutorial  Igor Ribeiro Lima How to Deploy Node Apps on Linux, 2016 Edition tutorial node Don't forget Node Weekly if you like this.  CertSimple Whitepaper: Building HTML5 Apps for Any Screen Size. Must-Know Techniques tutorial Are you working on a responsive HTML5 project? Learn the must-know techniques for success with this whitepaper.  Telerik Kendo UI   Sponsored Managing The Private Data of ES6 Classes tutorial  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Using ES7 Decorators with Babel 6 tutorial  Josh Habdas Flip that App! Hybrid Mobile to JavaScript Native  The process of converting a hybrid mobile app to a JavaScript native app built with NativeScript.  Telerik Developer Network From Angular ES5 Directive to Angular ES2015 Component tutorial  Oren Farhi Polymer Testing Tips tutorial  Maurizio Mangione The Joys of Block Scoping with ES6 tutorial  Kyle Pennell Constant Variables in JavaScript, or: When 'const' Isn't Constant tutorial  Marius Schulz Graal.JS: High-Performance JavaScript On The JVM video Graal.JS is a JavaScript engine for the JVM from Oracle.   Christian Wirth Where Flux Went Wrong opinion  David Zukowski Angular 2 versus React: A Comparison opinion A fiery showdown by Cory House.   Do not reinvent the feed - Stream tools Build scalable newsfeeds & activity streams in a few hours instead of weeks.  Stream.io   Sponsored OCamlScript: Compile OCaml to JavaScript tools A backend for the OCaml compiler which emits JavaScript.   Bloomberg Finance Introducing the Meteor Guide tools news There’s now a complete, official resource for everything you need to build a production JS in Meteor.   Meteor HTML to React: Extract HTML Into React Components As Separate Modules code  Roman Liutikov RoboJS: Dynamically Load JS Depending On DOM Structure code  Marco Gobbi Vectorious: A High Performance Linear Algebra Library code  Mateo Gianolio Rollerblade.js: A 360 Degree Interactive Image Rotator code  Austen Payan angular2-es6-todomvc: Angular 2 TodoMVC App Written in ES6 code  Soós Gábor 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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