This week's JavaScript news, issue 266

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 266 — January 15, 2016 The 10th Anniversary of jQuery Almost every JavaScript developer owes something to jQuery which continues to be heavily used on the Web. Its creator reflects on jQuery’s 10th birthday. Also further reflections by Dave Methvin. John Resig Parallel JavaScript with ParallelJS Take advantage of multi-threading in the browser using ParallelJS, a library that provides a more convenient API for working with Web Workers. Florian Rappl How to Learn ES6 Not on the ES6 train? Eric Elliott presents a handy learning roadmap for you. Eric Elliott Build web apps fast with instant APIs from any DB Free open source REST API platform for SQL, NoSQL, file storage, email, or remote web services. Hosted version for rapid prototyping with production ready results. Spin up a free instance in seconds. Dreamfactory   Sponsored jQuery 3.0 Beta Released There will no longer be any support for IE8, but otherwise there are only a few major changes to be aware of, including jQuery.Deferred being Promises/A+ compatible, a change to how .data() works, and more. Timmy Willison Awesome npm: A Variety of npm Resources and Tips Following on from other ‘awesome’ themed link lists comes one aimed at the npm ecosystem, but it includes a variety of npm-related tips too. Sindre Sorhus ChakraCore GitHub Repository Now Open Following on from its announcement at JSConf, the core of MS’ JavaScript engine from IE/Edge is now open source and available on GitHub. Microsoft Edge Dev Blog O'Reilly Fluent 2016 Early Price Ends Jan 21 Fluent is a major Web Platform and JS conference, this year taking place in San Francisco on March 7-10. Four of us from Cooper Press will be there, and we'd love to see you! O'Reilly Media Asynchronous I/O with Generators and Promises A short, tidy, and practical example of using generators and promises to elegantly deal with asynchronous data inputs and outputs. Nicolas Bevacqua Jobs Senior Frontend Developer at ChefSteps (Seattle, WA)Experienced developer with a passion for frontend work. You've built complex web apps using AngularJS, play nicely with designers and care about implementing pixel-perfect, responsive pages. You love food, are self-directed, enjoy refactoring, and have shipped lots of production apps. ChefSteps Front-end Engineer at Remix (YC W15), San Francisco, CABuild the web mapping software used to plan transit systems in 60+ cities including Oakland, Baltimore, San Antonio, Miami, Calgary, and Melbourne. Remix 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 Discontinuing IE 8 Support in React DOM (from v15) news  React jQuery 2.2 and 1.12 Released news  Official jQuery Blog ScotlandJS Diversity CFP Workshops news Want to speak but not sure how? ScotlandJS is running a workshop.   ScotlandJS lodash 4.0.0 Released news code  Intent to Implement WASM (WebAssembly) in V8 news  v8-users Disassembling JavaScript's IIFE Syntax tutorial If you don’t know what an ‘immediately invoked function expression’ is, read this.   Marius Schulz Reduce Your bundle.js File Size By Doing This One Thing tutorial  Thomas Lackemann Understanding Garbage Collection and Memory in Node tutorial node  Daniel Khan ES6 Classes Have Inner Names tutorial Classes have lexical inner names, just like named function expressions.   Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Refresh Tokens: When To Use Them and How They Interact With JWTs tutorial Learn about refresh tokens, how they fit in the modern web, and get a working Node based sample.  Auth0   Sponsored Getting Started with Underscore.js tutorial A must read if you’ve not experienced Underscore or Lodash yet.   Martín Martínez Outside-In Testing for Ember Apps tutorial  Jason Kriss Creating a WebGL Game with Unity 5 and 'JavaScript' tutorial Well, UnityScript really, but it’s very similar.   Michaela Lehr Functional Error Handling using Monads [PDF] tutorial  Luis Atencio Function Definitions in JavaScript tutorial  Marius Schulz Include External JavaScript Libraries In An Angular 2 TypeScript Project tutorial  Nic Raboy A Review of JavaScript Error Monitoring Services opinion  Raymond Camden jQuery Migrate 1.3.0 Released tools This will help you migrate up through versions of jQuery.   Official jQuery Blog Cheat Sheet for Callable Entities in ES6 tools  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer VivaGraphJS: Graph Drawing Library code Boasts that it’s the ‘fastest graph drawing JavaScript library’ complete with video proof.   Andrei Kashcha Extraction Library: Query-Based Tree Extraction for JavaScript Object Graphs code  Ralf S. Engelschall tweezer.js: Small, Dependency-free, ES6 Library for Smooth Animations code  Jackson Geller echarts: A Powerful Charting and Visualization Library for the Browser code  Baidu EFE team What if your best developer quit tomorrow?  Learn how to keep your developers happy and productive with the upcoming Grow Happy Developers workshop. Happy developers = Happy you.  Creo Agency   Sponsored 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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