JavaScript Weekly
Issue 281 — April 28, 2016
An extensive look at testing from a JavaScript point of view including what different types of testing you can do and how they relate to each other.
Eric Elliott

Node 6.0 is out (see today’s Node Weekly for more) with performance and security improvements, plus extra ES6 support.
Gergely Nemeth

A thorough tutorial covering the basics of creating animated 3D scenes in the browser using Three.js.
Karim Maaloul

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Code style opinions and a tool that lets you enforce them on your own code.
Feross Aboukhadijeh

An in-depth comparison of 3 React alternatives (Deku, Preact and Virtual Dom) and why they could prove useful for your next project.
Dan Prince

Gain Slack-like emoji autocompletion, Facebook-like stickers and mentions, and many more features for Facebook’s DraftJS editor framework.
draft-js-plugins

We’ve got Todd Motto to give a live, online talk next Tuesday (May 3rd) on optimizing the performance of your Angular 1.x apps. Save your place here.
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Jobs

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In Brief

V8 5.1 Improves ES2017 Draft Spec Support news
Contains various changes towards compliance with the ES2017 draft spec.
V8 Project

How Many npm Users Are There? news
Spoiler: About 4 million.
The npm Blog

Announcing Vue.js 2.0 news
Evan You

GEMCONF (Global Ember Meetup) in San Francisco, May 21 news
A mini Ember.js conference taking place next month in SF.

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Prototypal Object-Oriented Programming using JavaScript tutorial
Understand the difference between classes and prototypes to unlock JavaScript’s dynamic hidden superpower: delegation.
Mehdi Maujood

How to Handle Trees of Promises in ES6 tutorial
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

A Curated Set of React/Redux Tutorial Links tutorial
Mark Erikson

Introduction to p5.js: A Library for Creating Interactive Visuals tutorial
Stuart Memo

Using Closures Efficiently to Avoid Memory Leaks tutorial
IBM developerWorks

Creating Cross-Platform Apps with Angular 2 video
20 minute talk from Brad Green of the Angular team.
Channel 9

Avoiding a JavaScript Monoculture opinion
A bit of controversy for you :-) “Initiatives such as ES6, while seemingly improving things, are a step in the wrong direction.”
Rasmus Schultz

Yakbak: Record and Playback HTTP Interactions in Node tools node
Like Ruby’s popular ‘vcr’ library.
Jeremy Ruppel

es-search: Search ECMAScript Code Structurally tools
Search for certain code structures using a CSS selector-esque syntax.
James Donaghue

Find and Fix JavaScript Errors Faster (and have fun doing it) tools
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Chart.js: Simple, Flexible HTML5 and JS-powered Charts code
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AlphaBeta: Declarative Split Testing for React code

A Collection of Phonetic Algorithms with Live Examples code
The underlying library is Talisman.
Guillaume Plique

reuse-promise: Reuse The Promise Returned From A Function Until Resolved code
Elad Ossadon

An Angular 2, Babel-powered ES6/ES7 Starter App code
A starting point for trying out Angular 2 development.
Soós Gábor

Algebrite: A JavaScript Library for Symbolic Mathematics code
Davide Della Casa