--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 286" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 286 published_at: "2016-06-02" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/286" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 286 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/286) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 286 — June 2, 2016[3 Kinds of Prototypal Inheritance: ES6+ Edition](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/3-different-kinds-of-prototypal-inheritance-es6-edition-32d777fa16c9)Eric Elliott compares 3 approaches to prototypal inheritance: differential, concatenative, and functional. Eric Elliott [V8, Modern JavaScript, and Beyond (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1swY14jiKc)A look at advances in V8, ES6, and WebAssembly, plus a demonstration of debugging Node via Chrome’s DevTools. Seth Thompson [Promises, Async and Await](https://zeit.co/blog/async-and-await)A look at avoiding ‘callback hell’ in JavaScript by using new features in ES6 and ES7, plus some lessons learnt using them in production. Guillermo Rauch [![Frontend Masters\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/ce4a7231.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/reactive-angular-2/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)[The Sequel to Our Popular Angular 2 Course: Reactive Angular 2](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/reactive-angular-2/)Learn how to build functional, reactive web applications in Angular 2 with a Redux inspired library, @ngrx/store and observables from Rx.js. Frontend MastersSponsor [React Infinite Calendar: An Infinite Scrolling Date Picker](https://github.com/clauderic/react-infinite-calendar)Includes localization, theming, and keyboard support, and looks good on both desktop and mobile. Claudéric Demers [AnyPixel.js: To Create Big Interactive Real World Displays](http://googlecreativelab.github.io/anypixel/)An open-source software and hardware project from Google that anyone can use to build large and unusual interactive displays. Google Creative Lab [Design and Build Your Own JavaScript Library: Tips & Tricks](https://www.sitepoint.com/design-and-build-your-own-javascript-library/)Tim Severien provides a variety of tips for when building your own library, ranging from API design to testing and documentation. Tim Severien [A Facebook Sixth Sense: A Look at FB's JavaScript](http://kirszenberg.com/facebook-sixth-sense)If you enjoy a good code dig, this is for you. A developer digs into Facebook’s JavaScript code to detect when his friends are typing. 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