JavaScript Weekly
Issue 284 — May 20, 2016
A great read from the renowned author of Refactoring where he reimplements an example from the book in ES6, and shows off four refactoring approaches.
Martin Fowler

A very extensive walkthrough of using ES6 to build a React component that uses the Google Maps API.
Ari Lerner

Packed with interesting features. Can parse English into syntax trees, conjugate verbs, replace elements of sentences, etc.
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Refactoring a legacy code base? Moritz Kröger shows you how to achieve maintainable JavaScript with tests, linting and modularization.
Moritz Kröger

Aurelio De Rosa explains how the command line API (as in DevTools) allows you to perform debugging tasks from the browser console.
Telerik Developer Network

Stable, major, minor, LTS - what does it all mean?
Myles Borins

Lebab - it’s the opposite of Babel.. get it? It’s not magic but tries its best to generate ES6 equivalents of ES5 patterns.
Mohamad Mohebifar

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In Brief

Microsoft Edge (Preview) Supports ES6 Modules news
The JS engine in the latest Preview builds of Edge supports most ES6 features, including modules.
Microsoft

jQuery Migrate 1.4.1 Released, and The Path to jQuery 3.0 news
jQuery Foundation

JavaScript Conquered the Web. Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop news
WIRED

Create a Custom Component in Angular 2: Class Inheritance or Aggregation? tutorial
Look at two primary methods for creating a reusable custom component in Angular 2. Sample w/source.
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How to Make Accessible Web Components — A Brief Guide tutorial
Via ARIA attributes, keyboard support and validating visual accessibility.
Artem Tabalin

Setting up Node.js on Windows 10 tutorial node
Szabolcs Kurdi

Custom PDF Rendering with Mozilla's PDF.js tutorial
Imran Latif

Build a React + Flux App with User Authentication tutorial
Ryan Chenkie

Upgrade Your App to Angular 1.5 Components and Beyond tutorial
A look at how to refactor your app to use Angular 1.5 components in preparation for eventual migration to Angular 2.
Jay Raj

How ES6 Makes Strings Easier to Assemble video
Kyle Simpson

Learn Redux: A Free Video Series From Wes Bos video
Wes Bos

12 Videos from Node Conf London 2016 video node
YouTube

5 JavaScript 'Bad' Parts That Are Fixed In ES6 opinion
Raja Rao DV

Why Did React Update? A Tool to Identify Unnecessary Updates by React tools
Gabe Scholz

Timedropper: A Time Selection jQuery Plugin tools
Well designed, and great project page too.
Felice Gattuso

Bublé: A Fast, 'Batteries-Included' ES2015 Compiler tools
Lighter and more opinionated than Babel.
Rich Harris

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React Boilerplate: A Scalable, Offline-First React App Foundation code
Quickly start your next React project. Optimized for a good developer experience.
Max Stoiber

10 jQuery Text Highlighter Plugins code
Julian Motz

push.js: A Compact, Cross-Browser Solution for Desktop Notifications code
Tyler Nickerson

Tribute.js: A New, Easy-to-Use @Mention Plugin from ZURB code
ZURB

pg-promise: An Advanced Access Layer to PostgreSQL via Promises code node
Vitaly Tomilov