--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 316" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 316 published_at: "2017-01-05" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/316" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 316 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/316) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 316 — January 5, 2017[Authoring and Publishing JS Modules with Flow](http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2017/01/npm-flowjs-javascript/)An accessible hands-on look at using Flow, the static type checker, and integrating it with a Babel workflow. Jack Franklin [Inferno 1.0 Released: A Fast React-like UI Library](https://www.infernojs.org/)Isomorphic, modular, provides a React-like API, and clocks in at 9KB. It’s slightly larger than [Preact](https://preactjs.com/) but claims better performance. [Master the JavaScript Interview: What is Functional Programming?](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/master-the-javascript-interview-what-is-functional-programming-7f218c68b3a0)Functional programming continues to be a hot topic in the JavaScript world. Eric Elliott covers what you need to know. Eric Elliott [![ForwardJS\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0f019a68.png)](https://forwardjs.com/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)[Early Bird Tickets to ForwardJS flying away](https://forwardjs.com/)Nine days of in-person workshops on Angular 2, React, WebVR, Redux, Async, D3, WebPerf, Ionic, TypeScript and Halogen presented by industry experts this March in San Francisco. Early bird tickets are almost gone. ForwardJSSponsor [3 JavaScript Libraries to Keep an Eye On in 2017](https://www.sitepoint.com/3-javascript-libraries-2017/)Spoiler alert: it’s Vue.js, Svelte, and Conditioner.js (a conditional module loader). Tim Severien [Flatpickr: A Lightweight Date/Time-Picker with No Dependencies](https://github.com/chmln/flatpickr)A straightforward, good looking, vanilla date and time picker. Also available as Vue.js, React, Ember and Angular components/addons. [Marky: High-Resolution Timer based on performance.mark() and measure()](https://github.com/nolanlawson/marky)Works in both the browser and on Node and uses the highest resolution timing options available. Nolan Lawson [Clean Code Concepts Adapted for JavaScript](https://github.com/ryanmcdermott/clean-code-javascript)A guide, adapted from Robert C. Martin’s book _Clean Code_, to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in JavaScript. Ryan McDermott [TypeScript: The Missing Introduction](https://toddmotto.com/typescript-the-missing-introduction)A detailed introduction to how you can think about TypeScript, and its ability to improve JavaScript development. James Henry [The Truth About Traditional JavaScript Benchmarks](http://benediktmeurer.de/2016/12/16/the-truth-about-traditional-javascript-benchmarks/)Serious about performance for the web? Benedikt argues that we need to start judging browsers _“by real world performance and not their ability to game four year old benchmarks”_. Benedikt Meurer Jobs - [Web Platform Architect at Twitch (SF)](https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/5a426e18-5c68-40bd-a1c9-2f36174bf5dd?lever-source=js-weekly)Join the Twitch JavaScript team as a Web Platform Architect and help define our next gen React web platform that scales across our distributed product engineering org while achieving a highly performant web experience! Twitch - [Sr. Full Stack Engineer - React/Node (Remote First/Bay Area)](https://www.appone.com/MainInfoReq.asp?R_ID=1470130)We're profitable, growing rapidly and future-proofing with a ground-up build of our long-term platform using React/Redux/Node/CSS in JS. Be a founding member. Healthline.com In Brief [Calling All Speakers: SIGNAL 2017 CFP](https://www.papercall.io/twilio-signal) news Tell your stories with code at Twilio’s SIGNAL conference on May 24-25 in San Francisco. TwilioSponsor [Migrating A Legacy Frontend Build System to Webpack](http://softeng.oicr.on.ca/chang_wang/2017/01/03/Legacy-Build-Tool-Migration/) tutorial Chang Wang [Build a React App with User Login and Authentication](https://www.sitepoint.com/tutorial-build-a-react-js-application-with-user-login-and-authentication/) tutorial Robin Orheden [The 5 Things You Need To Know To Understand React](https://medium.com/@sachagreif/the-5-things-you-need-to-know-to-understand-react-a1dbd5d114a3) tutorial Sacha Greif [3 Questions to Watch Out For in a JavaScript Interview](https://medium.com/coderbyte/3-questions-to-watch-out-for-in-a-javascript-interview-725012834ccb) opinion Daniel Borowski [How My 10-Year-Old Learned JavaScript](https://hackernoon.com/how-my-10-year-old-learned-javascript-d8782b586db7) story _“It was a long journey with many bumps in the road”_ Rich Klein [A (Very Quick) Introduction to ES6 Proxies](https://egghead.io/lessons/javascript-use-es6-proxies) video Kent C. Dodds [Exploring Functional JavaScript (via 6 Great Talks)](https://gziolo.pl/2016/12/21/exploring-functional-javascript/) video Grzegorz Ziółkowski [Webinar: Why React.js is Game-Changing for Customer Experiences](http://info.rangle.io/why-react-is-game-changing-for-customer-experiences?utm_source=CooperPress&utm_medium=email_jan_5) Learn why React creates powerful, consistent customer experiences across both mobile and desktop. Rangle.ioSponsor [The Web Bluetooth Module for Angular](https://medium.com/google-developer-experts/the-web-bluetooth-module-for-angular-9336c9535d04) tools Wassim Chegham [5 jQuery Print Page Options](https://www.sitepoint.com/5-jquery-print-page-options/) tools Simon Codrington [Shrimpit: CLI Analysis Tool for Checking Unused JS and JSX ES6 Exports](https://github.com/yamafaktory/shrimpit) tools Davy Duperron [eventstop: A Minimal Event Library for Node.js and Browser](https://github.com/egoist/eventstop) code Egoist [Trae: A Minimalistic Fetch-Based HTTP Client for the Browser](https://github.com/Huemul/trae) code Nicolas Del Valle and Christian Gill [A JS Implementation of Python's range() Function.](https://github.com/Gothdo/range) code Michał Perłakowski [HTML5 Canvas Gauges (radial, linear, etc.)](https://github.com/Mikhus/canvas-gauges) code Mykhailo Stadnyk [TexGen.js: Procedural Texture Generation](http://read.klipse.tech/how-to-create-amazing-textures-in-javascript/) code [Zoom.js: Medium's Image Zoomer, with No Dependencies](https://github.com/nishanths/zoom.js) code Nishanth Shanmugham Curated by [Peter Cooper](http://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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