--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 230" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 230 published_at: "2015-05-01" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/230" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 230 Happy birthday JavaScript, 20 years old this month — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/230) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 230 — May 1, 2015 We're planning a bigger feature on this soon, but it was 20 years ago this month that Brendan Eich created JavaScript (then codenamed Mocha) in just 10 days, leading to its eventual release as _LiveScript_ in Netscape Navigator 2.0. Congratulations go not just to Brendan but the entire JavaScript scene and all it has produced over 20 amazing years for the Web and its role in our daily lives. _- Peter Cooper_[ES6 In Depth: Iterators and the for-of loop](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/es6-in-depth-iterators-and-the-for-of-loop/) ES6’s `for (.. of ..)` loop finally resolves some of the quirks with the alternatives when it comes to iterating over array elements. Mozilla Hacks [Electronics for the JavaScript Developer using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE](https://dev.opera.com/articles/wifi-ble-javascript/) A nuts and bolts introduction to getting up and running with a basic electronics experiment on the Spark platform along with Node. Sayanee Basu [Kyle Simpson Defends JavaScript Coercion's Bad Reputation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoL4BfSv7pI) An interesting 9 minute interview with an expert JavaScript trainer. 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SitePoint [Vorlon.JS: A Remote Debugging and Testing Tool](http://vorlonjs.com/) Vorlon.js helps you remotely load, inspect, test and debug JavaScript code running on any device with a browser. There’s also an article about [why MS created it](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2015/04/30/why-we-made-vorlon-js-and-how-to-use-it-to-debug-your-javascript-remotely.aspx). Microsoft [JSBlocks: Yet Another MV-ish Framework](http://jsblocks.com/) Another week, another framework, but this one looks pretty good and boasts of being incredibly modular and faster than React and Angular too. JSBlocks Jobs - [Get 5+ Job Offers in 1 Week with Hired](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters=javascriptweekly=n-q2_15-petercooperpress=offers)You'll create a profile over 1 week tech companies will apply to you! You'll get salary/equity offers upfront you're under no obligation to accept any offer. Interested? Join Hired today. 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