---
title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 207"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 207
published_at: "2014-11-14"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/207"
---

This week's JavaScript news, issue 207

Online Angular core team Hangout tonight, ECMAScript 6 in IE, time-series data visualization, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/207)

JavaScript WeeklyIssue 207 — November 14, 2014[Angular Air: A Live Video Show, Tonight with the Angular Core Team](https://ng-air.github.io/) Join the Angular team today (Friday 14th November) at 2pm Pacific (5pm Eastern) at [this Google Hangout.](https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/104335210120652090229/events/c2182d3bec32vs4jim7r8smc1q4) They’ll be discussing Angular 1.3 and 2.0. A recording will go up shortly after if you miss it.  Angular Air 
[Latest 'Edge' Build of IE Now Supports Numerous ECMAScript 6 Features](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/11/11/living-on-the-edge-our-next-step-in-interoperability.aspx) The latest IE in the latest Windows 10 preview build includes a variety of new Web platform features, but also ES6 features like classes, arrow functions, promises, proxies, symbols, and more.  IEBlog 
[Easy Data Binding with Vanilla JS](http://www.sellarafaeli.com/blog/native_javascript_data_binding) Two-way data-binding is useful if you want to align your JavaScript-based models with their HTML based representations, and this article looks at two ways to do it with vanilla JavaScript.  Sella Rafaeli 
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[MetricsGraphics.js: A D3-based Library for Visualizing Time-Series Data](http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/) From the Metrics Team at Mozilla comes a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data. It currently supports line charts, scatter plots and histograms.  Mozilla 
[On the Awesomeness of fn.displayName](https://medium.com/@cramforce/on-the-awesomeness-of-fn-displayname-9511933a714a) A way to give more descriptive displayed names to anonymous functions.  Malte Ubl 
[JavaScript Modules: Welcome to My Emo Hellscape](https://medium.com/@trek/last-week-i-had-a-small-meltdown-on-twitter-about-npms-future-plans-around-front-end-packaging-b424dd8d367a) JavaScript modules and dependencies have been making Trek mad and he presents an extensive take on the situation.  Trek Glowacki 
[Why Node.js Is Facing A Possible Open-Source Schism](http://readwrite.com/2014/11/12/node-js-joyent-possible-fork-schism) A summary of the recent happenings around the future of Node’s organization, including Node Forward and Joyent’s Node Advisory Board.  Read Write 


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In Brief

[Mozilla Introduces the First Browser Built For Developers](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/mozilla-introduces-the-first-browser-built-for-developers-firefox-developer-edition/) news 
The Developer Edition is a new release channel, replacing Aurora, for the latest features and dev tools.
Mozilla Hacks

[ES6 Generators Now 22x Faster in Firefox](https://wingolog.org/archives/2014/11/14/generators-in-firefox-now-twenty-two-times-faster) news
Andy Wingo

[Node 0.10 and Latest 0.11 Shipping with 'Unsupported' Versions of V8?](https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3692#c3) news

[9 Anti-Patterns for Node.js Teams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6phif2t-wj0) video node
Nodeconf EU 2014

[Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM](http://futurice.com/blog/reactive-mvc-and-the-virtual-dom/) 
Andre Medeiros

[Visually Representing Angular Applications](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/11/visually-representing-angular-applications/) 
Mozilla Hacks

[The Top 10 Mistakes That KnockoutJS Developers Make](https://www.airpair.com/knockout/posts/top-10-mistakes-knockoutjs) 
Mike Mellenthin

[10 Things I Learned From Reading (and Writing) The PouchDB Source](http://pouchdb.com/2014/10/26/10-things-i-learned-from-reading-and-writing-the-pouchdb-source.html) 
PouchDB is a JavaScript database that sync between browser and a backend CouchDB source.
Nolan Lawson

[material ui: CSS Framework and React Components Implementing Google's Material Design](http://material-ui.com/) code
Call-Em-All

[Raven: A node-webkit-based Minimal Text Editor Written in JavaScript](https://github.com/robotlolita/raven) code
Quildreen Motta

[Dexie.js: Minimalistic IndexedDB Wrapper](http://www.dexie.org/) code

[particles.js: A Lightweight JavaScript Library for Creating Particles](http://vincentgarreau.com/particles.js/) code
Vincent Garreau

[Backbone Computed Properties: Ember-style Computed Properties for Backbone Models](https://github.com/skaterdav85/backbone-computed-properties) code
David Tang

[jor1k: An OpenRISC 1000 Emulator written in JavaScript](https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k) code 
It runs Linux and you can try the demo online.
Sebastian Macke

[Espresso.js: A React and Backbone-inspired MVC Framework](https://github.com/techlayer/espresso.js) code
TechLayer

[chroma.js: JavaScript Library for Color Manipulations](https://github.com/gka/chroma.js) code 
Color mode conversions, color scales, color interpolation, and more.
Gregor Aisch

[CopperLicht: WebGL-based JavaScript 3D Engine](http://www.ambiera.com/copperlicht/) code 
As of 1.8.1, it's now open source.

[sql.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript Through Emscripten](https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/) code
Alon Zakai

[jQuery.dotdotdot: Cross-Browser Ellipsis for Multiple Line Content](https://github.com/BeSite/jQuery.dotdotdot) code
BeSite B.V.

[imagejs: Small Tool to Package JavaScript Into A Valid Image File](https://github.com/jklmnn/imagejs) tools 
Mostly for potentially naughty reasons.

[StatusPage.io: Better Server Status Communcation](https://www.statuspage.io/?utm_source=js_weekly=newsletter=js_weekly_11_14_14=js_weekly) tools 
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StatusPageSponsor

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