JavaScript Weekly
Issue 356 — October 13, 2017
Marijn Haverbeke is working on a new edition of the perennially popular JavaScript book, but needs your help to fund it.
Marijn Haverbeke

An updated, detailed step-by-step guide for getting set up, following best practices and giving you a solid ground to start from.
Stanko Tadić

GrapeCity Wijmo
With no dependencies and a small footprint, Wijmo FlexGrid is built for speed and extensibility. You'll get built-in, first-class Angular support, an Excel-like interface, sorting, globalization, filtering, group panels, and row details.
GrapeCity Wijmo   Sponsor

Has a lot of features including timeline charts, value highlighting, and a sparkline mode for dense data.
Taucraft

What you can do about memory leaks in recursive loops.
Alexandru Nedelcu

An opinionated, open-source toolkit for building Angular-based apps using patterns that suit enterprise-style development.
Victor Savkin

ProseMirror, which lets you bridge the gap between Markdown-style text editing and classical WYSIWYG editors, has reached a key milestone.
Marijn Haverbeke

Jobs

In Brief

Announcing TypeScript 2.6 RC news
Microsoft

Next.js 4 Released: A Framework for Universal React Apps news
With performance and styling upgrades.
ZEIT

Webinar: Build Better React Apps Faster with Kendo UI for React news
In this webinar we’ll show you the power of Kendo UI and how easy it is to use it in your React development.
Kendo UI  Sponsor

Redux Explained in 30 Seconds tutorial
About as tight an explanation as you could hope for.
Ross Creighton

How to Use ES6 Arrow Functions to Make Your Code Easier to Read tutorial
Both written and video form, however you prefer to learn.
Tyler McGinnis

The 2 New Features in ES7 and How They Work tutorial
Tiago Lopes Ferreira

How The JS Event Loop and Async Programming Works tutorial
Perfect if single thread/event loop/blocking concepts are new to you.
Alexander Zlatkov

Step Up Your JavaScript: A Comprehensive Guide to Intermediate JS tutorial
Advance your understanding of JavaScript. Be able to answer interview questions that stump many developers.
Educative  Sponsor

How We Run NPM Packages in the Browser story
Magnus Holm

Regexly: A WYSIWYG Regex Playground for JavaScript Developers tools
Chipto

date-fns: A Modern JavaScript Date Utility Library code
It’s essentially ‘lodash for dates’.
Lesha Koss et al.

ST: JSON Selection and Transformation Methods code
Adds methods to the JSON object for powerful JSON filtering or transformation.

handorgel: Accessible Web 'Accordion' Widget Written in ES6 code
Manuel Sommerhalder

Smooth Scrollbar: Customizable, High Performance Scrollbars code
If you want more control over your page’s scrolling..
Dolphin Wood

MapTalks.js: A Light Library to Create Integrated 2D/3D Maps code
Play with some examples here.

luma.gl: A JS WebGL2 Framework for Data Visualization code
Uber

Vue-Model: A Model Component for Vue.js code
Transform plain data into models with HTTP actions, computed properties, and methods.
Aaron Francis

A JavaScript Tetris Clone in Under 512 Bytes code
Readme/repo here (explains some of the tricks used).
Rebecca and JS Codegolf Team

JavaScript Telemetry: Black Box Recorder for App Crashes 
Rollbar  Sponsor