React.js Conf has been taking place this week and one of the biggest reveals was ‘React Native’, a technology for building native iOS and Android apps with React. There’s also a second keynote that takes a deeper dive.
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A great grab bag of new features with examples of each. Working with strings has gotten a lot better in ES6.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

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In a whirlwind screencast tour, John Lindquist demonstrates building a simple app in 7 minutes.
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Rob left the Angular team to work on his own framework; Aurelia is the result. Highly modular, written in ES6, no external dependencies, and with long term support and stability as a goal.
Rob Eisenberg
“I’ll examine why many, if not most, enterprise JavaScript developers still need to care about ES3 and several strategies for developers who want to use ES5/ES6 features today”
Cody Lindley
ES6 solves the problems CoffeeScript was trying to, says Blake.
Blake Williams
A list of technologies, learning resources, libraries, packages and more, all related to getting going with the popular real-time framework.
Ben Strahan
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A popular JavaScript ‘utility’ library. There’s more info and examples on this blog post. lodash PhantomJS 2.0 Released news
The core implementation has been switched to the more modern Qt 5. CoffeeScript support has been removed.
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A key change is you no longer need to use React.createClass to create React components and can instead use ES6 classes.
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