--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 247" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 247 published_at: "2015-08-28" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/247" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 247 The Angular 1 to 2 upgrade path, ES6 template strings, requestIdleCallback, linting, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/247) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 247 — August 28, 2015[Angular 1 & 2 Integration: The Path to Seamless Upgrading](http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/08/angular-1-and-angular-2-coexistence.html) The Angular team answer some common questions and share their plans for incremental upgrades of existing Angular 1 apps to Angular 2. Brad Green [ES6 Template Strings in Depth](http://ponyfoo.com/articles/es6-template-strings-in-depth) Template strings are a new feature in ES6 to make working with string templates, multi-line strings, and interpolation easier. Nicolas Bevacqua [Using Chrome's New 'requestIdleCallback' API](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/08/27/using-requestidlecallback) requestIdleCallback is a new performance-oriented function for scheduling work to be performed when the user is idle, in order to keep pages fast and responsive. Paul Lewis [![Raygun\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/ed1467a1.jpg)](https://raygun.io/blog/2015/07/using-linters-for-faster-safer-coding-with-less-javascript-errors/?utm_source=Cooper%20Press&utm_medium=JavaNL%2028Aug15&utm_content=JSLintersBlogPost&utm_campaign=SponsoredLink)[The Raygun Team on JS Linters](https://raygun.io/blog/2015/07/using-linters-for-faster-safer-coding-with-less-javascript-errors/?utm_source=Cooper%20Press&utm_medium=JavaNL%2028Aug15&utm_content=JSLintersBlogPost&utm_campaign=SponsoredLink)At Raygun, we’re all about finding errors before they become a problem. 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