--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 231" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 231 published_at: "2015-05-08" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/231" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 231 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/231) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 231 — May 8, 2015[NativeScript 1.0.0 Released](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/nativescript-1-0-0-release-now-available/) NativeScript is an open source, cross-platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) ‘truly native’ mobile app creation framework. There's also a look at [Angular 2.0 running in a native app](https://www.nativescript.org/blog/details/angular-2.0-running-in-a-native-mobile-app-using-nativescript) using the framework. Telerik Developer Network [jquerymy.js: A jQuery Plugin for Live, Two-Way Binding](http://jquerymy.com/) A well documented plugin, complete with demos. This could provide developers heavy into jQuery with an easy way to get on the data binding train without using another framework. ermouth [The Core Concepts of Angular 2](http://victorsavkin.com/post/118372404541/the-core-concepts-of-angular-2) Angular 2 is still under development, but some of the core concepts can already be investigated at this stage. Victor Savkin [![Mailgun\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/1a1ab679.jpg)](http://blog.mailgun.com/transactional-html-email-templates/?utm_source=JSWeeklyMay8&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=BlogPostTransactionalEmail)[Transactional HTML Email Templates Free for Download](http://blog.mailgun.com/transactional-html-email-templates/?utm_source=JSWeeklyMay8&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=BlogPostTransactionalEmail)Transactional HTML emails often get neglected but they're important for growing a healthy user base. We've open-sourced a collection of templates for transactional email to download for free. 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Jeremy Ashkenas [ManifoldJS: Build Multi-Platform Hosted Apps from a W3C Manifest](http://www.manifoldjs.com/) A new tool that can create 'hosted' multi-platform Web applications from a W3C Web App manifest using Apache Cordova as a polyfill where hosted web apps are not supported. ManifoldJS Jobs - [ReactJS/Flux/JavaScript Developer (remote)](http://copirite.com.au/jobs/react-js?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)We're building the next generation of online poster and graphic design tools with React, JavaScript and a great team. Awesome opportunity on a fun, challenging and different type of project. Interested in joining? Copirite - [Full-Stack Engineer at Zaption (San Francisco, CA)](https://angel.co/zaption/jobs/10550-full-stack-web-engineer?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)Zaption is an education-technology company that makes interactive video tools for teachers. Solve real problems with Node, Knockout, and MongoDB. 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TelerikSponsor [Ember.js' New Rendering Engine, Glimmer, is Now in a Canary Release](http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/05/05/glimmer-merging.html) news Yehuda Katz [Revealing the Inner Workings of JavaScript's 'this' Keyword](http://www.sitepoint.com/inner-workings-javascripts-this-keyword/) tutorial SitePoint [The React.js Way: Flux Architecture with Immutable.js](http://blog.risingstack.com/the-react-js-way-flux-architecture-with-immutable-js/) tutorial Péter Márton [Understanding ECMAScript 6: Template Strings](http://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-ecmascript-6-template-strings/) tutorial SitePoint [Using Immutability in React](http://www.sitepoint.com/immutability-react/) tutorial Christian Johansen [Building Large Scale Web Applications with TypeScript](http://jj09.net/building-large-scale-web-applications-with-typescript/) video Jakub Jedryszek [Setting State in React](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/react/setting-state/) video A short video demoing setting state in React -- part of the new course with Ryan Florence. Frontend MastersSponsor [The Future of Node](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJCnT7E1ts) video Rod Vagg [The Rise of the Bully Pulpit in the Evolution of JavaScript](https://medium.com/@morrissinger/the-rise-of-the-bully-pulpit-in-the-evolution-of-javascript-94fb394d3b69) opinion Morris Singer [Let's Package jQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian Novella](http://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/) opinion Christopher Allan Webber [The 15 Best JavaScript Charting Libraries](http://www.sitepoint.com/15-best-javascript-charting-libraries/) tools SitePoint [Ember Hearth: An OS X App to Manage Ember Projects](http://ember.town/ember-hearth/) tools Create new projects, run a server, run tests, build, and more. 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