--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 272" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 272 published_at: "2016-02-26" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/272" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 272 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/272) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 272 — February 26, 2016[Draft.js: A Rich Text Editor Framework for React](http://facebook.github.io/draft-js/) Highly customizable & built by Facebook, Draft makes it easy to build rich text inputs. Uses an immutable model and abstracts cross-browser differences. Facebook [Visual Studio Code Introduces 'Chrome Debugging'](http://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/02/23/introducing-chrome-debugger-for-vs-code) Lets you debug client-side JavaScript code running inside Google Chrome directly from Visual Studio Code. Microsoft [31 Videos from React.js Conf 2016](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb0IAmt7-GS0M8Q95RIc2lOM6nc77q1IY#reactjsconf2016) It only took place earlier this week but videos from React.js Conf are already out. Perhaps start with [Nick Schrock’s keynote.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGuKhcnrqGA&index=1&list=PLb0IAmt7-GS0M8Q95RIc2lOM6nc77q1IY) YouTube [![PubNub\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/061dd111.jpg)](https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1496285063410097666?source=wbn-cy16-q1-javascript-sdk-hands-on-javascriptweekly)[Build Your Own Real-Time Chat App....Fast!](https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1496285063410097666?source=wbn-cy16-q1-javascript-sdk-hands-on-javascriptweekly)Learn to build your own JavaScript chat app with real-time messages and more in no time. Join this developer training webinar now. (Limited seating. Seats fill fast.) PubNubSponsor [Angular 2 Change Detection Explained](http://blog.thoughtram.io/angular/2016/02/22/angular-2-change-detection-explained.html) One of the key roles of frameworks like Angular and React is to externally represent internal changes in state and data. This is an in-depth look at how Angular 2 deals with this task. Pascal Precht [Come to O'Reilly Fluent in SF (Mar 9-10) Free](http://conferences.oreilly.com/fluent/javascript-html-us/public/content/exhibit-hall-plus) If you can be in SF March 9-10, come enjoy Fluent's hallway track, meetups (including one run by the Angular core team), Ignite, and more, for free (pick the ‘Exhibit Hall Plus pass’ and use code `EH16SP`). I’ll be there - come say hi. O'Reilly Media [Announcing Ember.js's First LTS Release](http://emberjs.com/blog/2016/02/25/announcing-embers-first-lts.html) Ember gets a new LTS release channel - 2.4 will be the first version. Matthew Beale [React Gets New Version Scheme, Next React Will Be 15.0.0](http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/02/19/new-versioning-scheme.html) The current version of React is 0.14.7, but the next will be 15.0.0 to reflect React’s stability and to make the ‘15’ the major version component. Sebastian Markbåge [Misconceptions of Tooling in JavaScript](http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2016/02/the-react-webpack-tooling-problem) The key takeaway is to “layer tools and functionality as you get more comfortable” but don’t jump in at the deep end. Jack Franklin [Doclets: Automated API Doc Generation for JavaScript](https://doclets.io/) Automatically creates API documentation for every tag and selected branches in your repo, supporting JSDoc comments and Markdown articles. 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Channel 9 [What Lies Ahead for React?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RJf2jYzs8A=2=PLb0IAmt7-GS0M8Q95RIc2lOM6nc77q1IY) video Ben Alpert [A Cartoon Guide to the Wilds of Data Handling in React](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIqbzHdEPVM=4=PLb0IAmt7-GS0M8Q95RIc2lOM6nc77q1IY) video Lin Clark [Reflections on a Year of Using React at the NFL](https://medium.com/nfl-engineers/nfl-react-84e9cd11d384) opinion NFL Engineering [The Difference Between Excellent, Good and Bad JavaScript Developers](http://thefullstack.xyz/excellent-javascript-developer/) opinion Dor Tzur [Claudia.js: Quickly Deploy Node Microservices to AWS](https://github.com/claudiajs/claudia) tools node ClaudiaJS [Using Vim as a JavaScript IDE](http://www.dotnetsurfers.com/blog/2016/02/08/using-vim-as-a-javascript-ide/) tools DotNetSurfers [MobX 2.0: Simple, Scalable State Management](https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx) code Lets your data structures become observable and your functions reactive so they re-evaluate when data is altered. 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