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In this final issue of the year, we look back at the most popular JavaScript news and links of 2016. We close the year with 108,887 subscribers and thank you all for your support! We hope you have a happy holiday season and we'll see you in 2017 with a lot of fun new stuff :-)
Back in January, Eric Elliott started a series of posts digging into common job interview questions. On closures, he noted: “If you can’t answer this question, you’re a junior developer.”
Eric Elliott
A great read from the author of Refactoring where he reimplements an example from the book in ES6, and shows off four refactoring approaches.
Martin Fowler
Drew Powers
A look at approaches and best practices to error handling in JavaScript, including how to deal with errors thrown by asynchronous code.
Camilo Reyes
Kendo UI delivers everything you need to build modern web applications under tight deadlines - from the must-haves Data Grids and DropDowns to Spreadsheet and Scheduler. Choose from 70+ UI components and combine them to create beautiful, responsive apps.
Progress
Sponsor
Still only a couple of months old, Yarn took off as a new way to manage your npm packages.
Facebook Code
A module bundler with super simple code splitting support that aims for extremely efficient packing. It uses Browserify, Babel and Closure Compiler behind the scenes.
Malte Ubl
An attempt to recreate React’s core functionality with as little code as possible and with first-class ES6 support. It has become very popular this year.
Jason Miller
Dr. Axel showed off some tricks enabled by new features in ES6, such as enforcing mandatory function arguments and efficient value swapping.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Detailed results from Sacha Greif’s ‘State of JavaScript’ survey. Over 9,000 of you took part.
Sacha Greif
Raymond Camden offers tips, techniques and tools that can improve your development skills for anyone learning JavaScript.
Telerik Developer Network
Jobs
In Brief
Functional Programming for JavaScript People tutorial
Chet Corcos
JavaScript Testing: Unit vs Functional vs Integration Tests tutorial
Eric Elliott
ES6 Module Loading: More Complicated Than You Think tutorial
Nicholas C Zakas
Intro to Immutable.js and Functional Programming Concepts tutorial
Sebastián Peyrott
10 Lodash Features You Can Replace with ES6 tutorial
Dan Prince
Build a Fullstack Angular2 + Express.js app with User Management in 10 Minutes
Get an Angular 2 app up and running in 10 minutes - complete with user registration, authentication, and more.
Stormpath Sponsor
The Cost of Small Modules opinion
Nolan Lawson
Angular 2 vs React: The Ultimate Dance Off opinion
Eric Elliott
Choosing Vanilla JavaScript in 2016 opinion
Andrew Rabon
The Future of ES6 video
TC39's Jafar Husain gave an engaging talk on where JavaScript is headed now ES6 has become popular.
Jafar Husain
optimize-js: Optimize JS for Faster Initial Loading tools
Nolan Lawson
Create React App: Create React Apps with No Build Configuration tools
Facebook
scientist.js: A Tool for Carefully Refactoring Critical Paths tools
Ziya Sarikaya
Integrated Continuous Testing Tool for JavaScript tools
JavaScript TDD on steroids with instant code coverage right in your editor, now with coverage reports.
Wallaby.js Sponsor
Viewer.js: JavaScript Image Viewer code
Fengyuan Chen
Draft.js: A Rich Text Editor Framework for React code
Facebook
Clarity: A HTML/CSS/UX Design System and Angular 2 Components code
VMware
AnyPixel.js: To Create Big Interactive Real World Displays code
Google Creative Lab
lightgallery.js: A Full-Featured, Responsive Lightbox Gallery code
Sachin Nchoolur
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