---
title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 256"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 256
published_at: "2015-10-30"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/256"
---

This week's JavaScript news, issue 256

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JavaScript WeeklyIssue 256 — October 30, 2015[Upgrading Apps to Angular 2 using ngUpgrade](http://blog.thoughtram.io/angular/2015/10/24/upgrading-apps-to-angular-2-using-ngupgrade.html) You don’t _need_ to upgrade your Angular 1 apps to Angular 2, but if you do, here are some insights and a process to follow.  Pascal Precht 
[Babel 6.0.0 Released: Now a General Tooling Platform](https://babeljs.io/blog/2015/10/29/6.0.0/) Once known as solely an ES6-to-ES5 compiler, Babel is now a plugin-based general JavaScript tooling platform. This is a big shift.  Babel 
[18 Talk Videos from ReactRally 2015](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXBhQ05nu3L1abBUGeQ0ahw/videos) From using [GraphQL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4QB3j8qFc) and [WebGL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJxP0a3_VdA) with React, to [Falcor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCksc3tdM-A) and [webpack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Wi3xBQdAM).  YouTube 
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[Protip: Yet Another jQuery Tooltip Plugin](http://protip.rocks/) A good looking one though, and the live customizable demo on the homepage is a superb feature.  Victor Vincent 
[Poll: Are You Using ES6 for Most of Your JS Work Yet?](https://twitter.com/JavaScriptDaily/status/660074434821246976) With 172k [@JavaScriptDaily](https://twitter.com/JavaScriptDaily) followers, we decided to test the new ‘poll’ feature. So far only 32% claim to be using ES6 for most of their work.  Twitter 
[ES6: What's New In The Next Version Of JavaScript](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/10/es6-whats-new-next-version-javascript/) Not exactly new ground, but this article from Smashing Magazine provides a good, quick code-driven overview.  Lars Kappert 
[RegExp.prototype.unicode: What's Up with Unicode in JS?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJcug_vW0c) Mathias Bynens looks at the many problems related to Unicode in JavaScript regular expressions, how ES6 helps, and how to fix issues you run into.  JSConf EU 2015 
[Transpiling C/C++ to JavaScript with Emscripten](http://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-emscripten-transpiling-c-c-javascript-html5/) A straightforward tutorial on compiling some simple C programs to JavaScript (on Windows 10 but OS X and Linux work similarly).  SitePoint 


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