A special issue looking back at the best of 2015.

I hope you've been having a great holiday season. It's always slow for news at this time of year, so we're dedicating this issue to looking back at the biggest and most popular items from the past year :-) Happy New Year!

Peter Cooper,
Editor
P.S. We also have Node Weekly if you want to keep up to date with more Node-specific stuff as well.

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In Brief

You Know How to Code, but How Are Your Design Skills? course
Learn UI & UX design through part-time, online courses with 1-on-1 mentorship from expert designers.
Designlab  Sponsor

Getting Started with ECMAScript 6 tutorial
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

7 Essential JavaScript Functions tutorial
David Walsh

The Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming tutorial
Brian Lonsdorf

ES6 Katas: Learn ECMAScript 6 by Doing It tutorial
uxebu

Lodash: 10 JS Utility Functions That You Should Probably Stop Rewriting tutorial
Colin Toh

Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells (slidedeck) tutorial
Or watch the video here.
Elijah Manor

Six Steps for Approaching the Next JavaScript tutorial
Cody Lindley

Embracing Promises in JavaScript tutorial
Jack Franklin

10 Questions I’ve Been Asked Over 6 Technical JavaScript Job Interviews opinion
Reddit

Common Misconceptions About Inheritance in JavaScript opinion
Eric Elliott

The Problem with Angular opinion
Peter-Paul Koch

What Are The Best JavaScript IDEs? tools opinion
Slant

memory-stats.js: Minimal Monitor for JS Heap Size via performance.memory tools
Paul Irish

Airbnb's ES6 Style Guide tools
Airbnb

Try RASON® – RESTful Analytic Solver® Object Notation for JavaScript tools
RASON® is the easy way to solve powerful optimization and simulation models in your web or mobile app. Use a high-level modeling language embedded in JSON, and an Azure-backed REST API that’s free for small problems, but scalable to handle huge models.
Frontline Systems Inc  Sponsor

NativeScript 1.0.0 Released tools
An open source, cross-platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) ‘truly native’ mobile app creation framework.
Telerik Developer Network

The Original jQuery Source Code, Annotated by John Resig code
Genius

Split.js: A Library to Create Adjustable Split Views / Panes code
Nathan Cahill

React Canvas: High Performance Canvas Rendering for React Components code
Flipboard

SystemJS: A Universal Dynamic Module Loader code
GitHub

Burger: A Minimal Hamburger Menu with Fullscreen Navigation code
Matthew Blode

Labella.js: For Non-Overlapping Labels Along Lines code
Twitter

Trix: A WYSIWYG Text Editor for Everyday Web Writing code
Basecamp

rmodal.js: A Simple Modal Dialog with No External Dependenices code
Iskren Slavov

highlight.js: Syntax Highlighting for the Web code

An ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points 
Nicolas Bevacqua