--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 209" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 209 published_at: "2014-11-28" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/209" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 209 A new ES6 book, React and JSX tutorial, a JS regex visualizer, function names, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/209) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 209 — November 28, 2014[Understanding ECMAScript 6](https://leanpub.com/understandinges6/read) An extensive e-book (which you can read online free) that covers the differences between ECMAScript 5 and 6, aimed at developers already familiar with ES5. It's a work in progress but there's already a lot to enjoy. Nicholas C Zakas [Getting Started with React and JSX](http://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-react-jsx/) A beginner-oriented tutorial on using Facebook’s React library and its XML-like JSX syntax for templates and output. SitePoint [Regulex：A JavaScript Regular Expression Visualizer](http://jex.im/regulex/) Produces handy visualizations of the structure of regexes you supply. [@JavaScriptDaily](https://twitter.com/javascriptdaily) followers also recommended [Regexer](http://www.regexr.com/), [Regexper](http://www.regexper.com/), [Regularish](https://regularish.gavinhungry.io/) and [Regex101](http://regex101.com/). Jex [![Nettuts+\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/30157/i.jpg)](http://www.tutsplus.com/cyber_monday?utm_source=CooperPress=JavaScriptWeeklyEmail=Cyber%20Monday%20CooperPress%20Email)[Ready to update your JavaScript skills?](http://www.tutsplus.com/cyber_monday?utm_source=CooperPress=JavaScriptWeeklyEmail=Cyber%20Monday%20CooperPress%20Email) This Cyber Monday only all video courses on Tuts+ will be reduced to just $3 (normally $15). Don’t miss out. 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