--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 307" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 307 published_at: "2016-10-27" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/307" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 307 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/307) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 307 — October 27, 2016[Async Functions - Making Promises Friendly](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/primers/async-functions)Async functions allow you to write promise-based code as if it were synchronous but without blocking the main thread. Jake Archibald [A Guide to Setting Up a JavaScript Dev Stack From Scratch](https://github.com/verekia/js-stack-from-scratch)A to-the-point guide to setting up ES6, Babel, Gulp, ESLint, React, Redux, Webpack, Immutable, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Flow. Jonathan Verrecchia [Node v7.0.0 Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v7.0.0/)Based around V8 5.4 which has 98% coverage of ES6 features. 7.x will get the latest features first, with 6.9 being the new LTS version. Note that there are breaking features, such as [unhandled promise rejections](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8217) emitting process warnings. See [this week's Node Weekly](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/161) for more. 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