--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 217" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 217 published_at: "2015-01-30" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/217" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 217 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/217) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 217 — January 30, 2015[React Native: For Building Native Mobile Apps with React](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZ-P-ZI6W4) 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.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rDsRXj9-cU) React.js Conf 2015 [New String Features in ECMAScript 6](http://www.2ality.com/2015/01/es6-strings.html) A great grab bag of new features with examples of each. Working with strings has gotten a lot better in ES6. 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