This week's JavaScript news, issue 276

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 276 — March 25, 2016 Intro to Immutable.js and Functional Programming Concepts Learn about functional data structures and their uses in this overview of Facebook’s popular Immutable.js library. Sebastián Peyrott How An Irate Developer Briefly Broke JavaScript See this week’s Node Weekly for more depth and links on this, but essentially a developer unpublished an npm module and a deck of cards fell down due to it being a common dependency. The Verge Snapback Cache: A Client-Side Page Cache for jQuery Useful for situations where you have an infinite scroll-style feed so that a click-and-back situation returns users to the right place. Highrise Why Top Developers Love Gigster’s Fixed-Priced Projects There’s no shortage of options for developer talent. Learn why moonlighters and pro-freelances prefer fixed-priced projects over haggling with clients over hourly time-sheets. There’s no need to be sitting in any office you don’t love. Gigster   Sponsored A List of Emulators Written in JavaScript Pretty extensive. Covers retro systems, CPUs, calculators, and more. Frederic Cambus 25 JavaScript Developers Share the Best Ways to Learn JS Insights, tips, plus a lot of recommended books and courses. PSDtoWP How to Make Unit Testing Complex Apps Easy with Sinon.js Sinon helps eliminate complexity in tests by allowing you to easily create so called ‘test-doubles’. Jani Hartikainen BuckleScript: A JavaScript Backend for the OCaml Compiler Write type-safe, high performance OCaml code, and deploy the generated JS. Bloomberg Finance Jobs Senior Front End JavaScript EngineerCreating sophisticated, global technology takes an incredible team of innovators. Because we help smart brands execute global strategy, we look for smart people. We hire tech-savvy, passionate people who truly care about connecting people around the world. Apply Now. Smartling JavaScript DeveloperEver received an email that said: "Thank you, your product has changed our lives forever." We do every day. We need team members who love making that happen, via a top-quality browser app experience. Ramsey Solutions, A Dave Ramsey Company In brief It's Official: JS is the Most Commonly Used Programming Language on Earth news Well, if you extrapolate from Stack Overflow’s userbase anyway..   Dan Rowinski Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta news node  Google Cloud Platform Blog BrazilJS 2016 (Aug 26-27) Call for Papers news CFP closes April 30.   The Hot Interview to Watch from Fluent Conference 2016 news video Google’s Brad Green on using the power of components in Angular 2 to create reusable application blocks.  Wijmo   Sponsored How to Write Atom Packages Using Vanilla JavaScript tutorial  Moritz Kröger Creating Your First Angular 2 Component tutorial A beginner tutorial for getting started with Angular 2 components.   Todd Motto Getting Started with Node.js: A Tutorial tutorial node If you still haven’t given it a go ;-) Then subscribe to Node Weekly.   RisingStack Engineering Template-Driven Forms in Angular 2 tutorial  Pascal Precht What's The Difference Between (NaN != NaN) and (NaN !== NaN)? tutorial  Stack Overflow Getting an SPA to Load the Fastest Possible Way & How Webpack Helps tutorial  Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas Writing Testable Code in JavaScript tutorial  Joshua Mock Building Chrome Extensions in React+Redux tutorial video Tyler Shaddix demonstrates how to use React and Redux to build Google Chrome extensions.   Tyler Shaddix 'If you write JavaScript tools or libraries, you should bundle your code before publishing.' opinion  Rich Harris Advantages of Angular Templates opinion  Victor Savkin When Should I Use TypeScript? opinion  Alex Ewerlöf Is left-pad Indicative of a Fragile JavaScript Ecosystem? opinion node  Telerik Developer Network The Need for Multi-Platform npm Packages opinion  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Alpha Preview of Angular Material 2 tools A set of reusable Angular components that implement Google’s Material Design specification.   Google EventControl: jQuery Timeline Control with Support for Stacking Events code  Kristoffer Gronlund MidiWriterJS: Multi-Track MIDI Generation from Code code Works in both the browser and Node.   Garrett Grimm interact.js: Drag and Drop, Resizing & Gestures code Supports multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers.   Taye Adeyemi Match: A JavaScript Library to Test JSON code  Oscar Menéndez Apply to 3,000+ Jobs in 10 Minutes & 1 Application  Top companies apply to you on Hired. Get salary and equity upfront before interviewing.  Hired.com   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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