--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 214" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 214 published_at: "2015-01-09" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/214" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 214 Turn ES6 into ES5, cross-tab communication, ForwardJS talks, improve your JS with tooling, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/214) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 214 — January 9, 2015[6to5: Turn ES6+ Code into Readable Vanilla ES5](https://6to5.org/) 6to5 has taken a big step forward with stronger ES6 support than most other options, plus JSX and Flow type support. 6to5 [JSPM + SystemJS - A New In-Browser Workflow [video\]](http://glenmaddern.com/articles/javascript-in-2015) A look at how SystemJS, JSPM, and ES6 can make JS even more pleasant to work with. A tight, interesting 10 minute screencast. Glen Maddern [Cross-Tab Communication with localStorage](http://ponyfoo.com/articles/cross-tab-communication) An interesting technique to share state between two tabs (that are looking at the same site). Nicolas Bevacqua [![Frontend Masters\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/31443/125.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/react-js/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)[Online/In-Person Workshop on React.js](https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/react-js/) Learn the core aspects of React and dive into real-world use cases for React. Taught by Ryan Florence, creator of the React Router. Join us [online or in-person February 13th!](https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/react-js/) Frontend MastersSponsor [A Case Study in JavaScript Code Improvement](http://developer.telerik.com/topics/case-study-javascript-code-improvement/) Raymond Camden tells the tale of how a recent project got him to use a handful of simple tools that helped improve the overall quality of the code. Raymond Camden [Serverside React Rendering: Isomorphic JavaScript with React and Node](https://reactjsnews.com/isomorphic-javascript-with-react-node/) A tutorial, video (15 minutes), and demo of running the same code server and client side for rendering. David Wells [25 Talks from ForwardJS 2014](http://forwardjs.com/videos.html) Some great JS and HTML5 talks here from folks like Christian Heilmann, Tomomi Imura and John-David Dalton. The 2nd event is also coming up. ForwardJS [If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript: Explained](http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/if-hemingway-wrote-javascript-explained/) An interesting ‘behind the scenes’ look at the code in a book that presented JS as if written by famous authors. Angus Croll [Smalltalk MVC Translated to JavaScript](http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/smalltalk-mvc-translated-to-javascript) An explanation of Smalltalk’s MVC model and how it could inspire better work in JavaScript. Peter Michaux Jobs - [Javascript (FrontEnd or FullStack) Engineer @ DataHero](http://www.datahero.com/jobs/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)Want to join an up coming early stage startup? The Winner of the 2014 Strata Startup Showcase is looking for awesome Javascript rngineers to work on Front-End, BackEnd, or FullStack pieces of our intelligent data visualization platform. 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Franq In Brief [The jQuery UK Conference 2015 - Oxford on March 6](http://jqueryuk.com/2015/) news [MountainWest JavaScript 2015 - March 3-4 in Salt Lake City](http://mtnwestjs.org/) news [Dealing with Events in the Browser without jQuery](http://blog.garstasio.com/you-dont-need-jquery/events/) tutorial You Don't Need jQuery [Taming Asynchronous JavaScript with Async.js](https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/taming-asynchronous-javascript-with-async) tutorial Async.js provides a way to run functions in series without nested callbacks. 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