--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 268" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 268 published_at: "2016-01-29" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/268" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 268 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/268) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 268 — January 29, 2016[Viewer.js: JavaScript Image Viewer](http://fengyuanchen.github.io/viewerjs/) Flexible and with a great demo page. Supports numerous controls, modal and inline use, flipping, rotation, and more. Fengyuan Chen [Preact: A Fast, 3KB 'React Alternative'](http://developit.github.io/preact/) An attempt to recreate React’s core functionality with as little code as possible and with first-class ES6 support. There are lots of demos to check out. Jason Miller [Highlights of V8 4.9 (Chrome & Node's JavaScript Engine)](http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/01/v8-release-49.html) Coming to a Chrome (49) and Node near you. It has 91% ES6 support (by the [Kangax compatibility table](https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/)) including Proxy objects and the Reflect API. V8 Project [![Wes Bos\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/48619/125.png)](https://reactforbeginners.com/friend/COOPER?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)[React For Beginners: Learn React with Video Tutorials](https://reactforbeginners.com/friend/COOPER) Learn React and level up your JavaScript skill set. Join 3,494 other developers learning React with Wes Bos in this tutorial series. React for Beginners will have you learn React.js in just a couple of afternoons, and it’s currently reduced to its launch price too. [Check it out.](https://reactforbeginners.com/friend/COOPER) Wes BosSponsor [What Can We Learn From How jQuery Symbiotically Pushed The Web Platform Forward?](https://medium.com/ben-and-dion/what-can-we-learn-from-how-jquery-symbiotically-pushed-the-web-platform-forward-ce6b20cd4e98) “I think that there is an opportunity to do the same with React, but I am concerned that we could also go in another direction..” Key thoughts and insights from an industry expert. Dion Almaer [Modularizing Monolithic JavaScript Projects](https://plot.ly/javascript/modularizing-monolithic-javascript-projects/) One library’s solution to approaching client-side modularity using a mono-repo, one npm package and several CommonJS require-able modules. plotly [Front-end Libraries and Component Architectures](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/front-end-application-frameworks-component-architectures/) Cody Lindley says component architectures are a cornerstone of all modern front end libraries/frameworks and shows how they work in some of them. Telerik Developer Network [JavaScript Modules: A Beginner’s Guide](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/javascript-modules-a-beginner-s-guide-783f7d7a5fcc) An attempt to unpack the complicated world of modules and module-like systems used in JavaScript. Preethi Kasireddy [Announcing TypeScript 1.8 Beta](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2016/01/28/announcing-typescript-1-8-beta.aspx) 1.8 supports consumption of normal JavaScript files alongside TypeScript ones, making migrations easier. Extra JSX support is also included. Microsoft [2016 - The Year of Web Streams](https://jakearchibald.com/2016/streams-ftw/) Google’s Jake Archibald is excited about the potential of streams in browsers to improve Web responsiveness. A look at the future? Jake Archibald Jobs - [JavaScript Developers at X-Team (Remote)](https://x-team.com/join/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=javascript-weekly-january)We're looking for developers with extensive knowledge of JavaScript. The perfect candidate would be highly skilled in different frameworks and libraries. We are 100% remote and we provide the funding needed to help you achieve your goals and grow as a remote developer. 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Hired.com In Brief [CodePen's New Feature: A JavaScript Console](http://blog.codepen.io/2016/01/27/new-feature-javascript-console/) news CodePen [Let’s Code JavaScript Season 5 Launches, Free Till Sunday](http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/blog/2015/12/season-5) news A popular (paid) screencast site. Their new series is free to watch till the end of Sunday. Let’s Code JavaScript [Create A Really Simple 'Offline' Page using Service Workers](http://deanhume.com/Home/BlogPost/create-a-really--really-simple-offline-page-using-service-workers/10135) tutorial Dean Hume [Filtering and Sorting a List of Strings](http://www.jstips.co/en/filtering-and-sorting-a-list-of-strings/) tutorial Dave Gomez [Using Inline Partials and Decorators with Handlebars 4.0](http://www.sitepoint.com/using-inline-partials-and-decorators-with-handlebars-4-0/) tutorial Ryan Lewis [Crash Course to Angular](https://www.outlearn.com/learn/vkarpov15/angular-crash-course) tutorial Jump right in and build your first Angular web app today. OutlearnSponsor [Introduction to jCanvas: jQuery Meets HTML5 Canvas](http://www.sitepoint.com/introduction-to-jcanvas-jquery-meets-html5-canvas/) tutorial Provides a jQuery approach to working with the HTML5 Canvas. Maria Antonietta Perna [Unit Test Your JavaScript Using Mocha and Chai](http://www.sitepoint.com/unit-test-javascript-mocha-chai/) tutorial Jani Hartikainen [Building ES6 JavaScript for the Browser with Gulp, Babel, and More](https://thesocietea.org/2016/01/building-es6-javascript-for-the-browser-with-gulp-babel-and-more/) tutorial Aaron Krauss [Evented Mind: ES2015 (1 Hour)](https://www.eventedmind.com/classes/es2015-ee192682?utm_source=JavaScript+Weekly&utm_campaign=JavaScriptWeekly-1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Sponsored+Link) video In this video course you'll learn the coolest features of ES6 like classes, fat arrows, iterators and generators using Babel and Meteor. Evented MindSponsor [Building A Live Chat App in 40 Minutes with React and Meteor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcej5OboUVM) video (Note: Audio is quite loud.) Paul Dowman [Angular vs React: A Feature Table Comparison](http://tutorials.pluralsight.com/review/angular-vs-react-a-side-by-side-comparison) opinion Shannon Duncan [A Comparison of JavaScript Calendars and Schedulers](http://www.sitepoint.com/comparison-javascript-calendars-schedulers/) opinion A look at Kendo UI, FullCalendar, and dhtmlxScheduler. SitePoint [Why Everyone Is Talking About Isomorphic JavaScript and Why It Matters](http://www.capitalone.io/blog/why-is-everyone-talking-about-isomorphic-javascript/) opinion Azat Mardan [The Controversial State of JavaScript Tooling](https://ponyfoo.com/articles/controversial-state-of-javascript-tooling) opinion Nicolas Bevacqua [A List of 73 Tooltip Libraries](http://appcues.com/blog/64-tooltip-plugins-made-with-jquery-css-javascript-or-more/) code Appcues [Custom Highlight: jQuery Plugin for Building Custom Text Highlight Actions](https://github.com/Tapha/Custom-Highlight/) code Tapha Ngum [origami.js: HTML5 Canvas for Humans](https://github.com/raphamorim/origami.js) code Raphael Amorim [Loud Links: Tiny Library to Add Interaction Sounds to Your Site](http://loudlinks.rocks/) code Mahdi [Simple Code Examples to Help You Understand ES6](https://github.com/sgaurav/understanding-es6) code Gaurav Singh [Nodegram: The Simplest Instagram API Library](https://github.com/zzarcon/nodegram) code node Hector Leon Zarco Garcia [trunc-html: Truncate HTML by Text Character Length While Preserving HTML Structure](https://github.com/bevacqua/trunc-html) code Nicolas Bevacqua [Cytoscape.js: Graph/Network Visualization and Analysis Library](http://js.cytoscape.org/) code Now MIT licensed and at version 2.6.0. 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