JavaScript Weekly
Issue 242 — July 24, 2015
CommonJS modules export values, while ES6 modules export immutable bindings. This post from Dr. Axel explains what that means.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

TypeScript 1.5 adds a number of new ES6 features like modules, destructuring, spread, for..of, symbols, computed properties, and let/const.
MSDN Blogs

A quick introduction to graph theory and how to use it to use user behavior to drive recommendations on a site.
Keith Horwood

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An introduction to some techniques for creating modular JavaScript plugins, as well as concepts you can use to create more robust large React apps.
Evan Morikawa and Ben Gotow

A look at ES6’s syntactic and idiomatic cleanups for an old problem: object constructor creation in JavaScript.
Mozilla Hacks

Open-source music notation renderer supporting HTML5 Canvas and SVG.

An online book using four 'tales' to demonstrate practical approaches to refactoring and improving code.
Jack Franklin

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In Brief

Phaser 2.4 Released: The Popular HTML5 and JS Gamedev Framework news
Phaser

The Pragmatic Bookshelf Publishes 'Web Development Recipes 2nd Edition' news
The Pragmatic Bookshelf

ES6 In Depth: Proxies 
An in-depth and practical look at a mechanism in ES6 for intercepting access to an object and its properties.
Mozilla Hacks

Creating An Isomorphic Blogging App Using React and Flux tutorial
Sandeep Panda

Backbone.js Basics: Models, Views, Collections and Templates tutorial
Nick Salloum

Currying in JavaScript tutorial
Kevin Ennis

Declarative Data Fetching in React Components with Baobab tutorial
Denis Koltsov

The 5 ES7 Decorators I Want to Use Now opinion
Zack Argyle

Speeding Up Our JavaScript Test Time 1000x opinion
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Stop Classifying JavaScript opinion
Peter Jaszkowiak

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IronNode: Node.js Debugging with Chrome's DevTools tools node
Brings the power of JavaScript debugging within Chrome’s Developer Tools out to Node.
Stephan Ahlf

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Show Me The React: Browser Extension Highlights a Page's React Components tools
For both Chrome and Firefox.
Cymen Vig

bonsai-c: C to Asm.js Compilation for Humans tools code
Unlike Emscripten, bonsai-c is not aimed at porting C code to JavaScript but to let existing JavaScript developers drop to C for ‘heavy lifting.’
Matt Westcott

selectivity.js: Modular Select Dropdown Library for jQuery and Zepto code
Arend van Beelen jr.

ClickSpark.js: Add Particle Effects to Your JavaScript Events code
Looks a bit gimmicky but works well.
YMC AG

Mind: Flexible Neural Network Library code
Easily create networks that can be trained to make predictions.
Steven Miller

html5tooltips.js: Light and Clean Tooltips using CSS3 Animation code
Yevhen Tiurin

IoT.js: A Platform for the Internet of Things with JavaScript from Samsung code node
Samsung

stream-http: Implementation of Node's Native 'http' Module for the Browser code
John Hiesey