---
title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 278"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 278
published_at: "2016-04-07"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/278"
---

This week's JavaScript news, issue 278

ES6 module loading, tools to learn JS, hyper-modular JavaScript, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/278)

JavaScript WeeklyIssue 278 — April 7, 2016

**Yes, it's Thursday :-)** In response to reader feedback, JavaScript Weekly has now permanently moved to Thursdays. If you timed your weekend by us, be prepared.[ES6 Module Loading: More Complicated Than You Think](https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2016/04/es6-module-loading-more-complicated-than-you-think/)“Right now, there is still a lot of confusion about how modules work. [..] I’m hoping this post will clarify some of the confusion.” Nicholas C Zakas 
[Tools to Learn JavaScript By Doing](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/tools-learn-javascript/)Raymond Camden explores a variety of tools and sites that offer code puzzles with the goal of teaching programming skills in JavaScript. Telerik Developer Network 
[In Defense of Hyper Modular JavaScript](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/in-defense-of-hyper-modular-javascript-33934c79e113)“_npmgate_ had nothing to do with the size of the _left-pad_ module. The size of left-pad is a red herring.” Mike Groseclose 
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[What's Your Primary JavaScript Debugging Strategy?](https://twitter.com/brianloveswords/status/717749353914490881)The poll just ended, but the results and responses are interesting. `console.log` crushed it. Twitter 
[6 jQuery Infinite Scrolling Demos](http://www.sitepoint.com/jquery-infinite-scrolling-demos/)Examples involving infinite scrolling using various jQuery plugins. Jérémy Heleine 
[Tom Dale on Ember FastBoot & The Return of Scrappy JS](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/4/5/live_at_emberconf_tom_dale_talks_about_ember_fastboot)An interview with Tom Dale at EmberConf about FastBoot, when you should avoid native apps, and why JS on both server and browser may converge. Heroku 
[How to Generate a Full-Stack Java + JS App with JHipster](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/04/05/quicktip-use-jhipster/)Need to operate in the Java world? [JHipster](http://jhipster.github.io/) is a Yeoman generator to create a Java-based Spring Boot app that uses Angular for its front-end. Sebastian Peyrott 
[Code-Generating Away The Boilerplate in Mongo's Migration Back to SpiderMonkey](https://engineering.mongodb.com/post/code-generating-away-the-boilerplate-in-our-migration-back-to-spidermonkey/)MongoDB switched from using SpiderMonkey for its JS engine to V8 in version 2.4, but has since switched back. Why and how? A technical piece solely for JS engine fans. Jason Carey 


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In Brief

[AWS Lambda Now Supports Node.js 4.3](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/04/aws-lambda-supports-node-js-4-3/) news node
Amazon Web Services

[Node v5.10.0 and v5.10.1 (Stable) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v5.10.0) news 
An npm upgrade resolves [a security flaw in authentication tokens](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability). [5.10.1](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v5.10.1/) quickly followed.
Node.js Foundation

[React+d3js ES6 - React as a powerful tool for declarative dataviz](http://swizec.com/reactd3js) news 
'You just blew my mind. This is going to save me so much time.'
Swizec TellerSponsor

[Grunt 1.0.0 Released](http://gruntjs.com/blog/2016-04-04-grunt-1.0.0-released) news tools 
The [popular task runner](http://gruntjs.com/) has reached a major 1.0 milestone.
Grunt

[Using Lodash as a Collection of Micro-Libraries](http://knpw.rs/blog/using-lodash) tutorial opinion
Ken Powers

[4 Types of Memory Leak in Your JavaScript and How to Get Rid of Them](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/01/26/four-types-of-leaks-in-your-javascript-code-and-how-to-get-rid-of-them/) tutorial
Sebastian Peyrott

[Streaming Template Literals](https://jakearchibald.com/2016/streaming-template-literals/) tutorial 
Hacking JavaScript template literals to make composing streams easy.
Jake Archibald

[ES6 Succinctly: A Quick Round Up of ES2015 Features](http://kamranahmed.info/blog/2016/04/04/es6-in-depth/) tutorial
Kamran Ahmed

[Build Your Own Real-Time Chat App in AngularJS](https://www.pubnub.com/developers/angularjs/?utm_source=OnlineAdvertisement&utm_medium=nl-javascript-weekly&utm_content=angularjs-sdk-blog&utm_campaign=OA-CY16-Q1-Angular-JS) tutorial 
Learn to build your own full-featured chat app using AngularJS. Send real-time messages and more in no time. Get started now with these free tutorials and sign up for the newsletter.
PubNub.comSponsor

[Discussing JS Best Practices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eHVqOdAuEY) video 
An hour long chat with Dr. Axel Rauschmayer and Nicolás Bevacqua.
The Web Platform Podcast

[Debugging Techniques with JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EXNtmgf87s) video
Josh Owens

[Optimizing JavaScript Performance With Firefox Dev Tools](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/04/optimizing-javascript-performance-with-firefox-dev-tools/) video 
Great 6 minute primer.
Greg Tatum

[The Transition to React in A Legacy Rails and Angular App](http://eatcodeplay.com/the-transition-to-react-in-rails-angular-app/) story 
The story of transitioning a _mature_ Rails + Angular app towards React.
Nick Blumenthal

[JavaScript Module Systems Showdown: CommonJS vs AMD vs ES2015](https://auth0.com/blog/2016/03/15/javascript-module-systems-showdown/) opinion
Sebastian Peyrott

[Best Practices and Style Guidelines for Angular 2 App Development](https://github.com/mgechev/angular2-style-guide) opinion
Minko Gechev

[Why You Should Consider React Native For Your Mobile App](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/04/consider-react-native-mobile-app/) opinion
Clayton Anderson

[Service Worker Toolbox: A Collection of Tools for Building Service Workers](https://github.com/googlechrome/sw-toolbox) tools
Google Chrome Team

[Docco: Quick JavaScript Documentation Generation Tool](https://davidwalsh.name/javascript-documentation) tools
David Walsh

[Popper.js: A Library Used to Create 'Poppers' in Web Applications](https://fezvrasta.github.io/popper.js/) code 
Where ‘poppers’ are things like tooltips and pop-overs.
Fez Vrasta

[10 jQuery Time Picker Plugins](http://www.sitepoint.com/10-jquery-time-picker-plugins/) code
Matt Burnett

[react-dropzone: Simple HTML5 Drag-Drop Zones with React](https://github.com/okonet/react-dropzone) code
Andrey Okonetchnikov

[Glio.js: Trigger a Callback when the Pointer Leaves the Viewport](http://luisvinicius167.github.io/gliojs/) code 
In 5 directions, but not all.
Luis Vinicius

[Cash: 'Absurdly Small' jQuery Alternative for Modern Browsers](https://github.com/kenwheeler/cash/) code 
A small library for modern browsers that provides jQuery style syntax to wrap modern Vanilla JS features.
Ken Wheeler

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