At OSCON last week, the jQuery Foundation announced its renaming to the JS Foundation, an entity “committed to creating a center of gravity within the exponentially expanding JS ecosystem”. Its projects include ESLint, jQuery and Webpack.
The New Stack
Dr. Axel explains another potential addition to JavaScript: asynchronous iteration. He also shows how you can use it now via Babel.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Three major updates for Node this month, with v7 set to become the new ‘current’ release line, v6 transitioning to LTS, and v0.10 reaching its ‘end of life’ with no patches at all beyond October.
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No, it’s not the exponentiation operator, or Array.prototype.includes(), it’s that "use strict" can’t be used in functions with non-simple parameter lists.
Nicholas C. Zakas
Angular 2 presents two different methods for creating forms, template-driven (as used in Angular 1.x) or reactive. Todd digs into the latter.
Todd Motto
Is package manager fatigue soon to become a thing? Tim Severien summarizes everything you need to know and compares Yarn to io.js.
Sitepoint
Julian Motz takes a look at jQuery’s document.ready() method and shows a more vanilla JS approach.
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In Brief
The Linux Foundation Unites JavaScript Community for Open Web Development news
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A Quick Review of New Features in Angular 2.1 news
Gerard Sans
Ember.js 2.8-LTS, 2.9 and 2.10 Beta Released news
Facebook Wants Your Input for JSX 2.0 news
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Angular 1.x Banned From Use in Firefox Addons news
Martin Probst of Google notes that “We believe this is likely a misunderstanding”. Updates to follow.
Mozilla
Chrome Dev Summit 2016 news
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A Practical Introduction to ES6 Generator Functions tutorial
David Tang
Some Simple ES6 Syntax Tricks tutorial
Emil Ong
How to Create Your Own TypeScript Type Definition Files (.d.ts) tutorial
A very thorough tutorial.
Wolk Software Engineering
A Visual Guide to State in React tutorial
Dave Ceddia
Experimenting with async/await in Node.js 7 Nightly tutorial node
Gergely Nemeth
JavaScript for Web Designers: DOM Scripting tutorial
Mat Marquis
Using Yarn with Docker tutorial
Martino Fornasa
Searching JavaScript Arrays Efficiently with includes and indexOf tutorial
Dudley Storey
Building a 3D Minecraft-Style Editor in JavaScript tutorial
Christopher Pitt
Ember and Rails 5 with JSON API: A Modern Bridge tutorial
Ember Igniter
Medium-Like Image Loading with Vue.js tutorial
Louis Zawadzki
Polymer Summit 2016: Recordings of All Talks Are Now Available video
Catch up now on all talks from Polymer Summit 2016.
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Is MVC Dead for The Frontend? opinion
Alex Moldovan
Why You Shouldn’t Use ‘var’ Anymore opinion
And how ‘let’ solves a common JavaScript “gotcha”…
Mark Brouch
Debugging JS errors in production tools
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Faltu: Search Sort, Filter, and Limit An Array of Objects in MongoDB-esque Style code
Moin Uddin
Vivus.js: Bring SVGs to Life by 'Drawing' Them via Animations code
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meSing.js: JavaScript Singing Synthesis Library code
With a demo here.
David Su
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