--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 275" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 275 published_at: "2016-03-18" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/275" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 275 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/275) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 275 — March 18, 2016[Experimental Support for WebAssembly Now in V8](http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/03/experimental-support-for-webassembly.html) WebAssembly is a new low level bytecode and runtime, acting as a compilation target for Web use. Experimental support is now available in V8 and Chromium behind a flag. Seth Thompson [Angular 2 and the Future of HTML5 Apps](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/angular-2-and-the-future-of-html5-apps) Brad Green’s keynote from Fluent on how new techniques are making it easy to use advanced browser features like Web Workers, HTTP/2, and service workers. _Note: X to skip the login wall._ O'Reilly Media [An Introduction to jQuery's Deferred Objects](http://www.sitepoint.com/introduction-jquery-deferred-objects/) Before promises, jQuery had (and still has) its own similar mechanism: deferred objects. Here’s a look at how they work and how they’re evolving. Aurelio De Rosa [![PubNub.com\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/791bc828.jpg)](https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/493236891416510978?source=wbn-cy16-q1-javascript-sdk-handson-javascriptweekly3)[Build Your Own Real-Time Chat App....Fast!](https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/493236891416510978?source=wbn-cy16-q1-javascript-sdk-handson-javascriptweekly3)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) PubNub.comSponsor [Functional Programming for JavaScript People](https://medium.com/@chetcorcos/functional-programming-for-javascript-people-1915d8775504) This is not a casual read (get coffee) - it digs deep, but you’ll learn some cool stuff about functional programming concepts. Chet Corcos [Substance: A Library for Web-Based Content Editing](http://substance.io/) Flexible, works well with HTML/XML import and export, supports custom HTML rendering by writing components. Mature and used in several products. Substance Software GmbH [Using React.js for High Performance TV UIs (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sETJs2_jwo) A talk from Steve McGuire of Netflix on how they’ve built a high performance and completely declarative UI for living room use using React. YouTube [All JS Libraries Should Be Authored in TypeScript](http://staltz.com/all-js-libraries-should-be-authored-in-typescript.html) A controversial insight? “By building the library from the ground up with types, you make clear what are the constraints and preconditions of your API.” André Staltz [The Single Piece of JavaScript on Hacker News](http://blog.watchandcode.com/2016/03/17/the-single-piece-of-javascript-on-hacker-news/) A [tweet](https://twitter.com/sama/status/622915286782513152) inspired a closer look at the single piece of JavaScript on HN. 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RANGLE.IOSponsor [A Few New Developer-Facing Features in V8 5.0](http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/03/v8-release-50.html) news Will be coming in Chrome 50 Stable soon. Google [Marko v3: A Templating Engine and UI Component Building Library](http://markojs.com/docs/marko/what-is-new-marko-v3/) news tools Marko [Animating with React, Redux, and d3](http://swizec.com/blog/animating-with-react-redux-and-d3/swizec/6775) tutorial Swizec Teller [6 Ways to Bind JavaScript's this Keyword in React, ES6 and ES7](http://www.sitepoint.com/bind-javascripts-this-keyword-react/) tutorial Dan Prince [How to Install Multiple Versions of Node.js using nvm](http://www.sitepoint.com/quick-tip-multiple-versions-node-nvm/) tutorial node SitePoint [Three Ways to Reverse a String in JavaScript](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-reverse-a-string-in-javascript-in-3-different-ways-75e4763c68cb) tutorial Sonya Moisset [Thoughts On Thunks](http://blog.getify.com/thoughts-on-thunks/) tutorial “an eager async thunk is basically an early predecessor to promises” Kyle Simpson [On Being Overwhelmed and Approaching The Ever-Changing JS Ecosystem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO0b7iplgYY) video YouTube [A Look at RxJS Version 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COviCoUtwx4) video Ben Lesh, a senior UI engineer at Netflix, explains all. YouTube [The Path to JavaScript Next (at eBay)](http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2016/03/15/the-path-to-javascript-next/) opinion A brief, high level look at how eBay adopted ES6 into their huge ecosystem of development projects. eBay Tech Blog [The Deep Roots of JavaScript Fatigue](https://segment.com/blog/the-deep-roots-of-js-fatigue/) opinion Calvin French-Owen [Why I Write Plain JavaScript Modules](http://ponyfoo.com/articles/why-i-write-plain-javascript-modules) opinion We linked this ages ago but it's doing the rounds again - it's good. Nicolas Bevacqua [AVA: A 'Futuristic' Concurrent Test Runner](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava) tools code Runs tests concurrently to take advantage of Node’s async nature. Supports ES6, promises, generators, and more. Sindre Sorhus [JavaScript Speech Recognition (without using browser APIs)](https://dreamdom.github.io/speechrec.html) code Actually analyzes sound and lets you train it with new sounds or words. Dominic Winkelman [tonal: A Functional Music Theory Library](https://github.com/danigb/tonal) code Manipulate pitches, chords, scales, keys, etc. danigb [spotifyCurrentlyPlaying.js: Share What You're Playing, On Your Site](http://kylebrumm.com/spotifyCurrentlyPlaying.js/) code Kyle Brumm [Force.js: The Easy Way to Scroll and Animate Your Page](http://www.gravmatt.com/force-js/) code Multiple easing functions, tries to use CSS transitions by default but falls back. Rene Tanczos [D3 Calendar Heatmap: Represent Time Series Data (a la GitHub Contrib Chart)](https://github.com/DKirwan/calendar-heatmap) code Darragh Kirwan [You Know How to Code, but How Are Your Design Skills?](http://trydesignlab.com/a/web-design-course/ad49af1e/?utm_source=jsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=march2016) course Learn UI UX design through part-time, online courses with 1-on-1 mentorship from expert designers. 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