This week's JavaScript news, issue 307

This week's JavaScript news — Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 307 — October 27, 2016 Async Functions - Making Promises Friendly Async functions allow you to write promise-based code as if it were synchronous but without blocking the main thread. Jake Archibald A Guide to Setting Up a JavaScript Dev Stack From Scratch A to-the-point guide to setting up ES6, Babel, Gulp, ESLint, React, Redux, Webpack, Immutable, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Flow. Jonathan Verrecchia Node v7.0.0 Released Based around V8 5.4 which has 98% coverage of ES6 features. 7.x will get the latest features first, with 6.9 being the new LTS version. Note that there are breaking features, such as unhandled promise rejections emitting process warnings. See this week's Node Weekly for more. Node.js Foundation Try Kendo UI - the most complete JavaScript/HTML UI library with 70+ widgets Kendo UI delivers everything you need to build modern web applications under tight deadlines - from the must-haves Data Grids & DropDowns to Spreadsheet & Scheduler. Choose from 70+ UI components and combine them to create beautiful, responsive apps. Progress   Sponsor Redux without React: State Management in Vanilla JavaScript Moritz Kröger discusses his experiences of using Redux without React — the problems faced, the solutions attempted and lessons learned along the way. Sitepoint The 'Modular JavaScript' Book Series A new series of five crowdfunded books exploring Modular JavaScript. A draft of the first book, Practical ES6, is available to check out now. Nicolás Bevacqua How to Make a (Very) Simple Compiler with JS A fun, easily accessible tutorial walking through the bare basics of building a DBN (a design markup language) to SVG compiler. Mariko Kosaka Jobs Front End Engineer at Zalando SE (Berlin)Zalando is the leading fashion platform in Europe. Work in one of 120+ autonomous engineering teams and be part of our famous Radical Agility. Zalando SE Interactives Editor (NY)Slate is hiring an editor to lead its interactives team. Ideal candidates will be smart, funny, and energetic, and will bring a passion for both journalism and computer science. Slate Magazine One Application, 4,000+ Opportunities - Try HiredFinding the right role can be daunting, but not on Hired. Get empowered to find the right role with multiple job offers and free personalized support. Hired In brief Google’s Dart Programming Language Returns to The Spotlight news TechCrunch npm 4.0 Released news New Course: React Native (feat. Redux) ...Build Mobile Apps in JS course Use the same skills you use on the web to build cross-platform, native applications in JavaScript. Frontend Masters  Sponsor Exploring Typed Arrays in JavaScript tutorial Valerii Iatsko Building D3 Components with React tutorial Alan B Smith 3 Cases Where JavaScript Generators Rock tutorial Gosha Arinich Stateful and Stateless Components, The Missing Manual tutorial An in-depth look at what stateful and stateless components are. Todd Motto Data Hiding in ES6 tutorial Lance Ball Angular 2 Form Fundamentals: Template-Driven Forms tutorial Todd Motto Easy Creation of HTML with JavaScript’s Template Strings tutorial Wes Bos Playing with Genetic Algorithms in JavaScript video Building a simple AI tool to find solutions to hard problems. 24 minutes Nikolay Nemshilov How to Push a React.js App to Production and Sleep Better at Night video Testing and monitoring techniques to deliver and maintain a React + Redux app while being able to sleep without fear of everything breaking in the night. 29 minutes. Emanuele Rampichini Why GitLab Chose Vue.js opinion GitLab HyperDev - Developer playground for building full-stack web apps, fast tools Combining automated deployment, instant hosting and collaborative editing to get you coding with no setup. Fog Creek Software  Sponsor PurpleJS: An Alternative to Node.js for Java Projects tools A JS app framework that runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Enonic JS Ipsum: Generate Your Own JS Gibberish Text tools Lunar Logic Shave: Truncate Text To Fit Within an HTML Element code Dollar Shave Club JsonLogic: Serialize and Share Complex Rules as JSON code Jeremy Wadhams Swip: A Library to Create Multi Device Experiments code Expand canvases or active Web page space across multiple devices placed next to each other. Paul Sonnentag flv.js: An HTML5 FLV Player code Bilibili 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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