This week's JavaScript news, issue 284

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 284 — May 20, 2016 Martin Fowler on Refactoring JavaScript A great read from the renowned author of Refactoring where he reimplements an example from the book in ES6, and shows off four refactoring approaches. Martin Fowler How to Write a Google Maps Component with React A very extensive walkthrough of using ES6 to build a React component that uses the Google Maps API. Ari Lerner nlp_compromise: Natural Language Processing in JS Packed with interesting features. Can parse English into syntax trees, conjugate verbs, replace elements of sentences, etc. NLP Compromise Plug Email Into Your App with Mailgun Send email in your language of choice like Java using SMTP or Mailgun's RESTful API. The first 10,000 emails are free. Read our documentation and start testing now. Mailgun   Sponsored Untangling Spaghetti Code: Writing Maintainable JavaScript Refactoring a legacy code base? Moritz Kröger shows you how to achieve maintainable JavaScript with tests, linting and modularization. Moritz Kröger Easier Webapp Debugging with the Command Line API Aurelio De Rosa explains how the command line API (as in DevTools) allows you to perform debugging tasks from the browser console. Telerik Developer Network Node.js Releases: How Do They Work? (video) Stable, major, minor, LTS - what does it all mean? Myles Borins Lebab Turns ES5 Code Into Readable ES6 Lebab - it’s the opposite of Babel.. get it? It’s not magic but tries its best to generate ES6 equivalents of ES5 patterns. Mohamad Mohebifar Horizon 1.0: A Realtime, Open-Source JavaScript Backend Built by the RethinkDB team, Horizon brings together RethinkDB and a toolkit for rapidly prototyping and deploying JavaScript apps into a single framework. Horizon Jobs (Senior) Software Engineer - Engine/Static AnalysisOur (senior) software engineer will develop approaches to detect program vulnerabilities, assist in automatic generation of secure code, redefine how developers write secure code and work with experts on some of the toughest code analysis problems in the industry. Apply here today. Codiscope JavaScript Developer at Sky Betting and GamingWe’re looking for JS Developers with experience and a sense of what works. We create Rich Internet Applications in React with PHP/Node.js backends. There’s plenty more great tech to play with — come and find out more. Sky Betting and Gaming Job Offers. No resume necessary.Create your Hired profile to get top companies to start applying to hire you. Get offers from $75,000 - $250,000 on the platform in 1 week. Hired.com In brief Microsoft Edge (Preview) Supports ES6 Modules news The JS engine in the latest Preview builds of Edge supports most ES6 features, including modules.  Microsoft jQuery Migrate 1.4.1 Released, and The Path to jQuery 3.0 news  jQuery Foundation JavaScript Conquered the Web. Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop news  WIRED Create a Custom Component in Angular 2: Class Inheritance or Aggregation? tutorial Look at two primary methods for creating a reusable custom component in Angular 2. Sample w/source.  Wijmo   Sponsored How to Make Accessible Web Components — A Brief Guide tutorial Via ARIA attributes, keyboard support and validating visual accessibility.  Artem Tabalin Setting up Node.js on Windows 10 tutorial node  Szabolcs Kurdi Custom PDF Rendering with Mozilla's PDF.js tutorial  Imran Latif Build a React + Flux App with User Authentication tutorial  Ryan Chenkie Upgrade Your App to Angular 1.5 Components and Beyond tutorial A look at how to refactor your app to use Angular 1.5 components in preparation for eventual migration to Angular 2.  Jay Raj How ES6 Makes Strings Easier to Assemble video  Kyle Simpson Learn Redux: A Free Video Series From Wes Bos video  Wes Bos 12 Videos from Node Conf London 2016 video node  YouTube 5 JavaScript 'Bad' Parts That Are Fixed In ES6 opinion  Raja Rao DV Why Did React Update? A Tool to Identify Unnecessary Updates by React tools  Gabe Scholz Timedropper: A Time Selection jQuery Plugin tools Well designed, and great project page too.  Felice Gattuso Bublé: A Fast, 'Batteries-Included' ES2015 Compiler tools Lighter and more opinionated than Babel.  Rich Harris Help your team build amazing things — use true package management tools npm Enterprise helps teams share, discover, and re-use code behind the corporate firewall. Free trial.  npm   Sponsored React Boilerplate: A Scalable, Offline-First React App Foundation code Quickly start your next React project. Optimized for a good developer experience.  Max Stoiber 10 jQuery Text Highlighter Plugins code  Julian Motz push.js: A Compact, Cross-Browser Solution for Desktop Notifications code  Tyler Nickerson Tribute.js: A New, Easy-to-Use @Mention Plugin from ZURB code  ZURB pg-promise: An Advanced Access Layer to PostgreSQL via Promises code node  Vitaly Tomilov 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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