JavaScript Weekly
Issue 300 — September 8, 2016
Get started with PouchDB, an in-browser NoSQL, document database inspired by CouchDB that can help with offline apps that later sync with a server-side DB.
Jatin Shridar

Learn how to use Rollup as a smaller, more efficient alternative to webpack and Browserify to bundle JavaScript files. Goes into a lot of depth in both text and video forms.
Jason Lengstorf

A gentle introduction to the fundamentals of routing in React apps. (As an aside, get a chance at some free React stickers by registering for our new React newsletter.)
Chris Nwamba

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A small library for measuring and recording performance metrics and annotating the DevTools timeline.
Eric Bidelman

Outlining the steps to Node v7.x. P.S. Don’t forget Node Weekly for more Node each week.
Rod Vagg

ES6 snippets and syntax highlighting for the Vim editor.
Ruslan Ismagilov

Jack Rometty takes you on a tour of Chart.js 2.0 and its various chart types (bar, radar, polar, etc.) Plenty of easy-to-follow examples to drop in to your next project.
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In Brief

ES Proposal: Template Literal Revision news
A proposal to give the innards of tagged template literals more syntactic freedom.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Announcing Quill 1.0: The Powerful Rich Text Editor news
Jason Chen

PouchDB 6.0.0 Released: A CouchDB-Inspired In-Browser Database news
Dale Harvey

Removal of the Expression Sandbox in Angular 1.6+ news
Angular Core

Samsung Brings JavaScript to the Internet of Things news
Samsung is offering a stable 1.0 release of its ‘JerryScript’ engine for resource-constrained IoT devices.
Paul Krill

JavaScript Arrow Functions Introduction tutorial
Wes Bos

Master the JavaScript Interview: What is Function Composition? tutorial
Eric Elliott

My New Favorite ES6 Toy: Destructured Objects as Parameters tutorial
Sarah Drasner

Learn Node.js: A Free Course for Node Beginners tutorial node
Uses the online Hyperdev development environment.
HyperDev

Migrating From ngAnimate to Angular 2's 'animate' tutorial
Lukas Ruebbelke

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Creating Forms with React and Redux video
How to use the Redux Form Library to create forms that can store their state.
Hendrik Swanepoel

Is 'var' Dead? What Should I Use? opinion
“There isn’t a right answer here, just opinions.”
Wes Bos

JavaScript (and Node.js) Continues To Eat The World opinion
Opinions on JavaScript’s future based on two days spent at NodeSummit 2016.
Dale Knauss

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10 jQuery Panorama Image Display Plugins code
Thomas Greco

granim.js: Create Fluid and Interactive Gradient Animations code
Demo page.
Benjamin Blonde

Fuse.js: A Lightweight Fuzzy-Search Library code
Kirollos Risk

Text Mask: Text Input Masking for React, Angular, Ember, and Plain JS code
Supports phone numbers, dates, emails and more. Demo.
Text Mask

cookies.js: Simple Front-End Cookie Manipulation Library code
Francisco Presencia

timeago: A Tiny Library to Format Dates/Times as '3 Hours Ago', etc. code