--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 204" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 204 published_at: "2014-10-24" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/204" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 204 Angular's JS variant, TC39 interview, building apps with Web Components, TypeScript 2.0, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/204) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 204 — October 24, 2014[ECMAScript 6 Returns JavaScript to Original Intent](http://www.infoworld.com/article/2837425/javascript/ecmascript-6-returns-javascript-to-original-intent.html) Paul Krill presents a detailed interview with TC39 committee member Jafar Husain, a technical lead at Netflix, about what’s coming up for ECMAScript with both ES6 and ES7. InfoWorld [AtScript Primer: Angular's Idea for an Enhanced JavaScript](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11YUzC-1d0V1-Q3V0fQ7KSit97HnZoKVygDxpWzEYW0U/mobilebasic?pli=1=127) Presented as part of Angular’s design docs, AtScript is a TypeScript-esque idea for an enhanced version of JavaScript with type introspection and type, field, and metadata annotations. Angular 2.0 will be built on AtScript. Misko Hevery and Rob Eisenberg [Building Single Page Apps using Web Components](https://www.polymer-project.org/articles/spa.html) An excellent tutorial from Google’s Eric Bidelman going through how to build a fully-featured, responsive single page app using Polymer. 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