--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 284" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 284 published_at: "2016-05-20" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/284" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 284 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/284) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 284 — May 20, 2016[Martin Fowler on Refactoring JavaScript](http://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-video-store-js/)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 [How to Write a Google Maps Component with React](https://www.fullstackreact.com/articles/how-to-write-a-google-maps-react-component/)A very extensive walkthrough of using ES6 to build a React component that uses the Google Maps API. Ari Lerner [nlp_compromise: Natural Language Processing in JS](https://github.com/nlp-compromise/nlp_compromise)Packed with interesting features. Can parse English into syntax trees, conjugate verbs, replace elements of sentences, etc. NLP Compromise [![Mailgun\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8cff7037.png)](https://documentation.mailgun.com/quickstart-sending.html?utm_source=cooperspress&utm_medium=javascriptweeklyMay19&utm_content=plugemail&utm_campaign=startsending)[Plug Email Into Your App with Mailgun](https://documentation.mailgun.com/quickstart-sending.html?utm_source=cooperspress&utm_medium=javascriptweeklyMay19&utm_content=plugemail&utm_campaign=startsending)Send email in your language of choice like Java using SMTP or Mailgun's RESTful API. The first 10,000 emails are free. Read our documentation and start testing now. 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Mohamad Mohebifar [Horizon 1.0: A Realtime, Open-Source JavaScript Backend](http://horizon.io/#1.0-release)Built by the RethinkDB team, Horizon brings together RethinkDB and a toolkit for rapidly prototyping and deploying JavaScript apps into a single framework. Horizon Jobs - [(Senior) Software Engineer - Engine/Static Analysis](https://codiscope.com/company/careers/senior-software-engineer-enginestatic-analysis?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)Our (senior) software engineer will develop approaches to detect program vulnerabilities, assist in automatic generation of secure code, redefine how developers write secure code and work with experts on some of the toughest code analysis problems in the industry. 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