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title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 228"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 228
published_at: "2015-04-17"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/228"
---

This week's JavaScript news, issue 228

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JavaScript WeeklyIssue 228 — April 17, 2015

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_- Peter Cooper_[Introducing T3: Enabling Large Scale JavaScript Apps](https://www.box.com/blog/introducing-t3-enabling-large-scale-javascript-applications/) Nicholas and the team at Box have created a new loosely-coupled, model-less system for building large JS apps. It aims to provide a ‘minimalist’ approach to providing core structure to code. See [the examples](http://t3js.org/examples/) for more.  Nicholas C Zakas 
[New Number and Math Features in ES6](http://www.2ality.com/2015/04/numbers-math-es6.html) There’s more than you might think, both in terms of notation and new methods. Axel cruises through it all.  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer 
[(re)Introducing eSpeak.js: Web-Based Text to Speech](http://blog.monotonous.org/2015/04/14/reintroducing-espeak-js/) A fresh JS-compilation of the eSpeak open source text-to-speech library, now leaning on newer features of the Web Platform and running smoother than before. The [demo](http://eeejay.github.io/espeak/emscripten/espeak.html) is naturally fun to play with.  Eitan Isaacson 
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[ES6 Arrow Functions, Syntax and Lexical Scoping](http://toddmotto.com/es6-arrow-functions-syntaxes-and-lexical-scoping/) “Let’s understand what an arrow function is not. It’s not a replacement for the function keyword, at all.”  Todd Motto 
[v8worker: Minimal Go Bindings to the V8 JavaScript Engine](https://github.com/ry/v8worker) Exposes a message passing interface to V8 so Go and JavaScript can interact. Notably, it comes from Ryan Dahl, the original creator of Node.  Ryan Dahl 
[A Dive Into Brain Bleeding JavaScript Obfuscation](https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/01/12/javascript_deobfuscation) A fascinating look at some of the lengths JavaScript obfuscators can go to to reduce the readability and reusability of code.  Tyler Hudak 


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In Brief

[Ember 2.0 to Retain IE9 Support; Drops IE8](https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/45?#issuecomment-93009469) news
Ember.js

[JSConf 2015 EU Call for Speakers Open](http://2015.jsconf.eu/call-for-speakers/) news 
Takes place in Berlin this September and the call closes on April 30th.
JSConf EU

[Package Manager Npm Raises $8M, Launches Private Modules](http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/14/popular-javascript-package-manager-npm-raises-8m-launches-private-modules/) news node
TechCrunch

[JS Testing Workshop Online with David Mosher and Justin Searls](https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/javascript-testing/) course 
We're writing increasingly complex applications in JavaScript in the browser and server-side/Node. Learn how to test it all in JS!
Frontend MastersSponsor

[Get Notified When Your Site is Linked on Hacker News](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/04/get-notified-when-someone-posts-an-article-from-your-domain-on-hacker-news-using-node-js-firebase-and-twilio.html) tutorial node 
A complete tutorial tying together the Hacker News API, Node, Firebase and Twilio.
Twilio

[Creating a Next Gen JavaScript App with Aurelia](http://www.sitepoint.com/creating-next-generation-javascript-application-aurelia/) tutorial 
A forward thinking ES6/ES7-based framework.
SitePoint

[How to Build Your First Angular Project in Visual Studio 2013](http://angularfirst.com/your-first-angular-project-in-visual-studio/) tutorial
Aaron Marisi

[Adding Authentication to A React Flux App](https://auth0.com/blog/2015/04/09/adding-authentication-to-your-react-flux-app/) tutorial
Martin Gontovnikas

[Rapydscript: A Python-like Pre-Compiler for JavaScript](http://www.rapydscript.com/) tools

[Get Your Node.js Application Running in Minutes](http://hubs.ly/y0zSM-0) tools 
Modulus is an easy to use Node.js hosting platform that lets you run your applications anywhere.
ModulusSponsor

[Harp: The Static Web Server with Built-in Preprocessing](http://harpjs.com/) tools 
Serves Jade, Markdown, EJS, CoffeeScript, Sass, LESS and Stylus as HTML, CSS JavaScript with no config necessary. Not new but seen a lot of fresh praise recently.
Brock Whitten

[Understanding the Real Advantages of Using ESLint](http://rangle.io/blog/understanding-the-real-advantages-of-using-eslint/) opinion
Evan Schultz

[Oh God, I Built Another JavaScript Framework (But Why?)](https://medium.com/on-coding/oh-god-i-built-another-javascript-framework-fb32f0f8ec12) opinion
Taylor Hughes

[11 Things You Might Not Know About jQuery (Mostly Trivia)](http://sixrevisions.com/javascript/things-about-jquery/) opinion
Jacob Gube

[layzr.js: Small, Fast, Dependency-free Library for Lazy Loading Images](https://github.com/callmecavs/layzr.js) code
Michael Cavalea

[RQ: A Library for Managing Asychronicity in Server Applications](http://www.rq.crockford.com/) code
Douglas Crockford

[WorkerExchange: A Wrapper for WebWorker and SharedWorker](https://github.com/steelbrain/Worker-Exchange) code
Steel Brain

[Dragula: Drag and Drop So Simple It Hurts](https://github.com/bevacqua/dragula) code
Nicolas Bevacqua

[React-Datagrid: A Datagrid for React](http://zippyui.github.io/react-datagrid/) code
Zippy Technologies

[Highland.js: High-Level Streams Library for Node and the Browser](http://highlandjs.org/) code

[jQuery lightSlider: A Responsive Content Slider](http://sachinchoolur.github.io/lightslider/) code
Sachin N

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