--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 260" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 260 published_at: "2015-11-27" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/260" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 260 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/260) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 260 — November 27, 2015[Concurrently JavaScript: 3 Posts on Concurrency](http://blog.getify.com/concurrently-javascript-1/) Kyle Simpson covers concurrency vs parallelism, threads, asynchrony, reactive programming, and CSP (communicating sequential processes). Kyle Simpson [An ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points](https://github.com/bevacqua/es6) Tired by lengthy articles and prefer snappy bulletpoints? This is a great way to skim through and get a bird’s eye view of ES6. Nicolas Bevacqua [What Are The Best JavaScript IDEs?](http://www.slant.co/topics/1686/~javascript-ides) Crowdsourced summaries and comparisons of 18 different IDEs and text editors used by JavaScript developers. Slant [![Opbeat\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/93727d99.jpg)](https://opbeat.com/angularjs/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=&utm_campaign=angularbeta)[NEW: Performance Metrics for Angular](https://opbeat.com/angularjs/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=&utm_campaign=angularbeta)Get a breakdown of the digest cycle including AJAX, templating, services & cache calls. See how each controller spends its time and what’s slowing your app. JavaScript Weekly readers get early access to the beta. 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RANGLE.IOSponsor [AngularJS 1.5.0-beta.2 and 1.4.8 Released](http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/11/angularjs-15-beta2-and-14-releases.html) news [Microsoft to Stop Supporting IE8, IE9, and IE10 in January 2016](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support) news Microsoft [Wallaby.js for Visual Studio Code Released](http://dm.gl/2015/11/26/wallaby-for-visual-studio-code/) news tools Artem Govorov [How to Integrate jQuery Plugins into an Ember Application](http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-integrate-jquery-plugins-into-an-ember-application/) tutorial Lamin Sanneh [How to build Minesweeper using Angular 2 and Immutable.js](http://www.jvandemo.com/how-to-build-minesweeper-using-angular-2-and-immutable-js/) You can [play it here.](http://plnkr.co/edit/MyuNgX4okn7sao7GkVdG?p=preview) [Refactoring to Microservices: What We Learned with Backbone/Marionette](https://www.safaribooksonline.com/blog/2015/11/24/refactoring-javascript-microservice-backbone-marionette/) tutorial Pasha Craydon [An Explanation of the 'String Padding' Proposal](http://www.2ality.com/2015/11/string-padding.html) tutorial A look at a proposal (at stage 3 in the official process) for adding padStart and padEnd functions to strings. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [10 Things to Know About Gulp](http://engineroom.teamwork.com/10-things-to-know-about-gulp/) tutorial Adam Lynch [Steps To Prepare Your Angular 1 Code for Angular 2](http://orizens.com/wp/topics/5-steps-to-prepare-your-angular-1-code-to-angular-2/) tutorial Oren Farhi [The Command Pattern Applied to Your Ember.js Application](http://yoranbrondsema.com/command-pattern-applied-ember-js-application/) tutorial Yoran Brondsema [Data-Driven Tests in JavaScript Using Mocha](https://booker.codes/data-driven-tests-in-javascript-using-mocha/) tutorial Alex Booker [ES.stage3 Proposal: Trailing Commas in Function Parameter Lists & Calls](http://www.2ality.com/2015/11/trailing-comma-parameters.html) tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [Distributing React Components](http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/distributing-react-components-babel-browserify-webpack-uglifyjs) tutorial Krasimir Tsonev [Crash Course to Angular](https://www.outlearn.com/learn/vkarpov15/angular-crash-course) course Jump right in and build your first Angular web app today. 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