JavaScript Weekly
Issue 262 — December 11, 2015

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Microsoft will open-source the core components of Chakra (as ChakraCore), the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft Edge.
MSDN

Spawned from 8 years of solid JavaScript work and expertise comes Lea Verou’s Bliss, a ‘helper library for people who don’t like helper libraries’ and who want to use vanilla JS with just a little help. The side by side examples of vanilla JS and Bliss are compelling.
Lea Verou

Nicolas Bevacqua ran a survey on his popular JavaScript blog and got over 5000 responses. Get insights into the community’s use of testing, semicolons, CI, build scripts, and more.
Nicolas Bevacqua

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An extensive walkthrough of building a Markdown editor in Angular 2 that got the thumbs up from Angular’s own Brad Green.
AntJanus

“We’re going to create a tiny ReactJS application that will work both on the server and the client.”
Jack Franklin

We all know about setTimeout for timing the execution of code, but are you familiar with requestIdleCallback?
Craig Buckler

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In Brief

TypeScript 1.7 Released news
Now supports Async functions for targets with ES6 generator support enabled.

MS Visual Studio Code Enables ES6 Support by Default news
Microsoft

50% off 5 of Manning's JavaScript Books - Today Only news
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Node v5.2.0 (Stable) Released news node
Node Foundation

Angular 1.5.0-rc.0 Released news code
GitHub

ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator news opinion
A proposal for adding the simple-but-useful pipeline operator to JavaScript.
Gilbert

CodeSchool Launches Interactive ES2015 Course news
CodeSchool

Parsing RSS Feeds in JavaScript - The Options tutorial
Raymond Camden

Building Mobile Apps with Angular 2 and NativeScript tutorial
Angular Blog

What's New in Vue.js 1.0 tutorial
Ryan Chenkie

Building A ToDo List Application with Angular 2 tutorial
Colin Eberhardt

Emscripten and WebAssembly slidedeck
A slidedeck from the creator of Emscripten.
Alon Zakai

Using React is a Business Decision, Not a Technology Choice opinion
“React grew out of solving business problems rather than technical ones.”
Eric Baer

Observations on Promises opinion
Chris Dickinson

d3.compose: Make Data-Driven Visualizations from Reusable Components in d3 code
Cornerstone Systems Northwest Inc.

embed.js: A Pure JavaScript Plugin to Embed (Many Things) code
Analyzes supplied strings to insert/embed code, gists, videos, MP3s, and more into a page.
Ritesh Kumar

pajax: Promise-Based AJAX library code
n-fuse GmbH

gridster.js: jQuery Plugin for Drag and Drop Multi-Column Grids code
Ducksboard

paredit.js: S-Expression Editor and Navigation code
Robert Krahn

Angular-trix: A Rich WYSIWYG Text Editor Directive for Angular code
Sachin N

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