--- title: "The best of JavaScript Weekly in 2015" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 264 published_at: "2016-01-01" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/264" --- The best of JavaScript Weekly in 2015 A look back at the most popular links of 2015 — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/264) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 264 — January 1, 2016 **A special issue looking back at the best of 2015.** I hope you've been having a great holiday season. It's always slow for news at this time of year, so we're dedicating this issue to looking back at the biggest and most popular items from the past year :-) Happy New Year! _Peter Cooper, Editor_ P.S. We also have [Node Weekly](http://nodeweekly.com/) if you want to keep up to date with more Node-specific stuff as well.[10 Interview Questions Every JS Developer Should Know](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/10-interview-questions-every-javascript-developer-should-know-6fa6bdf5ad95)This was by far the most popular item of the year and includes great insights for both employers and job seekers. Eric Elliott [Terrible JS Mistakes to Avoid with a Static Analyzer](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/02/18/avoid-javascript-mistakes-with-static-code-analyzer/) Zack Grossbart explained why he uses static analyzers to poke at his code and the sorts of errors they can dig up. Smashing Magazine [![Frontend Masters\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/33c6471a.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/topic-poll-2016/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)[It's 2016: Time to Vote on Future Course Topics!](https://frontendmasters.com/topic-poll-2016/)Which courses on front-end, Node.js and related topics would you like to see? Vote on the topics most important to you. Frontend MastersSponsor [A Re-Introduction to JavaScript](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript) An intermediate level JavaScript primer aimed at ‘re-introducing’ the language to you to clear up any confusion or out of date assumptions. Mozilla Developer Network [Must See JavaScript Dev Tools](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/must-see-javascript-dev-tools-that-put-other-dev-tools-to-shame-aca6d3e3d925) Eric Elliott showed off some of the greatest developer tools and why experienced developers use them. Eric Elliott [We Have A Problem with Promises](http://pouchdb.com/2015/05/18/we-have-a-problem-with-promises.html) Promises are awesome, but Nolan Lawson noticed that ‘many of us are using promises without really understanding them.’ He cleared up many misconceptions in an example-rich post. Nolan Lawson [JavaScript in One (Huge) Picture](https://github.com/coodict/javascript-in-one-pic) A graph that shows off JavaScript’s syntax, identifiers, operators, and more in a single image. There's also a PDF you could print out. coodict [A Baseline for Front-End JavaScript Developers in 2015](http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers-2015) Areas in which a modern JS-based front-end developer should be skilled. Rebecca Murphey [Eric Elliott's Essential JavaScript Links](https://github.com/ericelliott/essential-javascript-links#essential-javascript-links) ‘A very exclusive collection of only must-have JavaScript links’ You’ll find something worthwhile in here. 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DesignlabSponsor [Getting Started with ECMAScript 6](http://www.2ality.com/2015/08/getting-started-es6.html) tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [7 Essential JavaScript Functions](http://davidwalsh.name/essential-javascript-functions) tutorial David Walsh [The Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming](https://github.com/DrBoolean/mostly-adequate-guide#readme) tutorial Brian Lonsdorf [ES6 Katas: Learn ECMAScript 6 by Doing It](http://es6katas.org/) tutorial uxebu [Lodash: 10 JS Utility Functions That You Should Probably Stop Rewriting](http://colintoh.com/blog/lodash-10-javascript-utility-functions-stop-rewriting) tutorial Colin Toh [Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells (slidedeck)](http://elijahmanor.github.io/talks/js-smells/) tutorial Or [watch the video here.](http://elijahmanor.com/javascript-smells/) Elijah Manor [Six Steps for Approaching the Next JavaScript](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/six-steps-for-approaching-the-next-javascript/) tutorial Cody Lindley [Embracing Promises in JavaScript](http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2015/02/promises/) tutorial Jack Franklin [10 Questions I’ve Been Asked Over 6 Technical JavaScript Job Interviews](https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3rb88w/ten_questions_ive_been_asked_most_more_than_once/) opinion Reddit [Common Misconceptions About Inheritance in JavaScript](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/common-misconceptions-about-inheritance-in-javascript-d5d9bab29b0a) opinion Eric Elliott [The Problem with Angular](http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/01/the_problem_wit.html) opinion Peter-Paul Koch [What Are The Best JavaScript IDEs?](http://www.slant.co/topics/1686/~javascript-ides) tools opinion Slant [memory-stats.js: Minimal Monitor for JS Heap Size via performance.memory](https://github.com/paulirish/memory-stats.js) tools Paul Irish [Airbnb's ES6 Style Guide](https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/tree/es6) tools Airbnb [Try RASON® – RESTful Analytic Solver® Object Notation for JavaScript](https://rason.com/) tools RASON® is the easy way to solve powerful optimization and simulation models in your web or mobile app. Use a high-level modeling language embedded in JSON, and an Azure-backed REST API that’s free for small problems, but scalable to handle huge models. 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Telerik Developer Network [The Original jQuery Source Code, Annotated by John Resig](http://genius.it/ejohn.org/files/jquery-original.html) code Genius [Split.js: A Library to Create Adjustable Split Views / Panes](https://github.com/nathancahill/Split.js) code Nathan Cahill [React Canvas: High Performance Canvas Rendering for React Components](https://github.com/flipboard/react-canvas) code Flipboard [SystemJS: A Universal Dynamic Module Loader](https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs) code GitHub [Burger: A Minimal Hamburger Menu with Fullscreen Navigation](https://github.com/mblode/burger) code Matthew Blode [Labella.js: For Non-Overlapping Labels Along Lines](http://twitter.github.io/labella.js/) code Twitter [Trix: A WYSIWYG Text Editor for Everyday Web Writing](https://github.com/basecamp/trix) code Basecamp [rmodal.js: A Simple Modal Dialog with No External Dependenices](https://github.com/zewish/rmodal.js) code Iskren Slavov [highlight.js: Syntax Highlighting for the Web](https://highlightjs.org/) code [An ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points](https://github.com/bevacqua/es6) Nicolas Bevacqua Curated by [Peter Cooper](http://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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