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title: "Angular 2.0 Released, and the Future of ES6"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 301
published_at: "2016-09-15"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/301"
---

Angular 2.0 Released, and the Future of ES6

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JavaScript WeeklyIssue 301 — September 15, 2016[Angular 2 Final Released](http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/09/angular2-final.html)Even in its pre-release versions, Angular 2 has seen heavy use but the core team is now happy with the Angular 1 successor’s stability and featureset. [Rewatch the live reveal here.](https://youtu.be/xTIWBXkpvDc?t=214) There are also links to [lots of tutorials here.](http://blog.thoughtram.io/angular/2016/09/15/angular-2-final-is-out.html) Angular Core Team 
[The Future of ES6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pKNRgResq0)Netflix and TC39’s Jafar Husain gives a thorough and engaging 35 minute talk on where JavaScript is headed now ES6 has become popular. Jafar Husain 
[Why Use Flow (The Static Type Checker)?](https://blog.aria.ai/post/why-use-flow/)An introduction to, and explanation of, the benefits of static typing in JavaScript while using Facebook’s _Flow_. Aria Fallah 
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[Template Literals are Strictly Better Strings](https://ponyfoo.com/articles/template-literals-strictly-better-strings)Nicolás Bevacqua says template literals are strictly better than strings and should become the new default for the post-ES6 era versus single and double quoted strings. Nicolás Bevacqua 
[JavaScript Refactoring Techniques: From Specific to Generic Code](https://www.sitepoint.com/javascript-refactoring-techniques-specific-to-generic-code/)A look at various JavaScript refactoring techniques to make your code more generic and strike the balance between readability and reusability. Paul Wilkins 
[Dependency Injection in Angular 1 and Angular 2](https://vsavkin.com/dependency-injection-in-angular-1-and-angular-2-d69589979c18)A core Angular developer demonstrates how common scenarios of using dependency injection in Angular 1 can be implemented in Angular 2. Victor Savkin 
[debugger.html: Mozilla's New JavaScript Debugger](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/09/introducing-debugger-html/)A modern JavaScript debugger from Mozilla built as a React and Redux-powered webapp. Mozilla Hacks 
[NeuroJavaScript: Brain-Computer Interfacing with JS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSfUr3m0-w8)At Full Stack Fest, Alex Castillo demonstrated the visualization and interpretation of brainwaves in the browser using Angular. _40 minutes._ Alex Castillo 


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In Brief

[V8 5.4 Provides Memory and Performance Improvements](http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/09/v8-release-54.html) news 
In beta until Chrome 54. Offers 10-13% better performance over 5.3.
Michael Hablich

[Onsen UI 2 Released: A Hybrid Mobile App Framework and Toolset](https://onsen.io/) news
Onsen UI

[Two free weeks of JavaScript training: React Native, Async, GraphQL](http://forwardcourses.com/) course 
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[Tutorial: Building a Mobile App with Cordova and Vue.js](https://coligo.io/building-a-mobile-app-with-cordova-vuejs/) tutorial
Michael Viveros

[Pragmatic Uses of Monkey Patching in JavaScript](https://www.sitepoint.com/pragmatic-monkey-patching/) tutorial
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[Why and How to Use Default Function Arguments in JavaScript](http://wesbos.com/javascript-default-function-arguments/) tutorial
Wes Bos

[Using Webpack to Hot-Reload Your Backbone-Marionette-Ampersand Project](http://avitureblog.com/2016/09/01/webpack-hot-reloading.html) tutorial
Mike Macaulay

[AJAX Requests in React: How and Where to Fetch Data](https://daveceddia.com/ajax-requests-in-react/) tutorial
Dave Ceddia

[The Modernization of Reactivity](https://davidwalsh.name/modernization-reactivity) tutorial 
A look at reactive programming technologies and techniques from a JavaScript perspective.
Kris Zyp

[Learn How to Use Design to Make Your Websites & Apps Addictive](http://trydesignlab.com/a/web-design-course/d3e2e28f/?utm_source=jsweekly&utm_campaign=sep2016&utm_medium=email) course 
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[The 'Ultimate' Introduction to React](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTHCwUdGFkc) video 
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[Testing JavaScript with Jest](https://egghead.io/playlists/testing-javascript-with-jest-a36c4074) video
Kent C. Dodds

[Beyond The Tab: Executing JavaScript Across Browser Contexts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_QRqGZ8xQ) video
Andrew Dunkman

[Is Your JavaScript Function Actually Pure?](http://staltz.com/is-your-javascript-function-actually-pure.html) opinion 
A little [Twitter experiment](https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/768833714990309376) got André thinking about purity in JavaScript.
André Staltz

[Does ES6 Mean The End Of Underscore / Lodash?](https://derickbailey.com/2016/09/12/does-es6-mean-the-end-of-underscore-lodash/) opinion
Derick Bailey

[Idea for Improving The Syntax of EJS Templates](http://www.2ality.com/2016/09/better-ejs.html) opinion
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

[React Native Elements Cross-Platform UI Toolkit](https://github.com/react-native-community/React-Native-Elements) code
React Native Community

[JavaScript Cookie: A Simple, Lightweight API for Handling Cookies](https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie/) code

[Tide: A New Flux-Like State Management Library for React](https://medium.com/tictail/introducing-tide-our-react-state-management-library-1dcc6e80551e) code

[Jest: Painless JavaScript Testing from Facebook](http://facebook.github.io/jest/) code 
Not new but has picked up momentum recently.
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[Inferno: A Fast, React-Like Library for Building Modern UIs](https://github.com/trueadm/inferno/) code

[match-sorter: Simple, Expected, and Deterministic Best-Match Array Sorting](https://github.com/kentcdodds/match-sorter) code
Kent C. Dodds

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