--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 225" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 225 published_at: "2015-03-27" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/225" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 225 React Native available, must-have front-end skills, Node mistakes, no Dart VM, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/225) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 225 — March 27, 2015[React Native is Now Open Source](http://facebook.github.io/react-native/) First [unveiled](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/217) two months ago, React Native, a toolkit for building native iOS apps (and Android soon) with React, is now available. Facebook [Introducing React Native: A Complete Tutorial](http://www.raywenderlich.com/99473/introducing-react-native-building-apps-javascript) A complete and well written walkthrough of building a simple iOS app using React Native which was open sourced this week (above). Colin Eberhardt [A Baseline for Front-End JavaScript Developers in 2015](http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers-2015/) Areas in which a modern JS-based front-end developer should be skilled. Rebecca Murphey [![Stormpath\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/3e3aa30b.png)](https://stormpath.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-mobile-api-security/?utm_source=javascript%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mobile%20api%20security%20blog)[New: The Ultimate Guide to Mobile API Security](https://stormpath.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-mobile-api-security/?utm_source=javascript%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mobile%20api%20security%20blog)Learn everything you need to secure your API for mobile consumption. Whether you’re building a REST API or a mobile app, you’ll learn the full OAuth workflow and how to work with JWTs in the mobile context. 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Bloomberg [JavaScript World Domination](https://medium.com/@slsoftworks/javascript-world-domination-af9ca2ee5070) An extensive look at how JS has been picked up for many more use cases than it was designed and how it increasingly has a future with hardware. Flaki [Dart for the Entire Web](http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html#?) The Dart project is officially dropping the idea of integrating a Dart VM into the browser and is focusing solely on compiling to JavaScript. Dart Language Team Jobs - [Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer (Remote or Local NYC)](http://picpulse.workable.com/jobs/50220?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)If you're an expert in full-stack web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, AngularJS and Node, and you're looking to make a big impact at an analytics/image processing startup, apply to Picpulse. You will also help make major architectural decisions, as we move from an alpha to beta release. 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