JavaScript Weekly
Issue 320 — February 2, 2017
A book by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer on the latest versions of ECMAScript that’s free to read online, but also available as a PDF. Axel has also updated his ECMAScript 2017 post with the final feature set.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

TC39’s Brian Terlson and Naveed Ihsanullah of Mozilla explain why ‘async’ are a big deal for both JavaScript and TypeScript developers.
Mary Branscombe

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Extracted from the first chapter in Practical ES6 and reviewed by the creator of JavaScript himself, Brendan Eich, amongst others.
Nicolás Bevacqua

At 3 years old, Mithril has reached its 1.0 milestone. It clocks in at under 8KB after gzip and the homepage shows off its basic feature-set well.

Uses Service Workers in the browser to let you set up a mock API without using any servers.
Service Mocker

In Chrome’s console you can format log messages with CSS. This 5 minute video walks through creating a template tag function for a more reusable formatting approach.
John Lindquist

The goal is simple: write something clever/fun/interesting in 1024 bytes of JavaScript. Entries due by end of February.
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In Brief

A Look at Meteor in 2017 news
Matt DeBergalis

Announcing 'Learning Aurelia' from Packt Publishing news

Got Node Skills? Soon, There Will Be a Certification for That news node
Michelle Gienow

Create data-intensive, feature-rich web and mobile apps with Sencha Ext JS 
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6 Great Uses of the ES6 Spread Operator tutorial
David Walsh

A (Very) Beginner's Guide to JavaScript Variables and Datatypes tutorial
Tania Rascia

Amazon-Like Popover Trigger Behaviors in Angular tutorial
Nathan Meyers

Implementing async/await with ES6 Generators and Promises tutorial
Chris Chares

What is Angular? tutorial
If you’ve not used Angular at all and want a high level explanation, this is as good as any.
TJ VanToll

A Look at ES7 (ES2016) and ES8 (ES2017) Features tutorial
Azat Mardan

Using terminal to view test results is a productivity killer. tools
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gotem: 'Copy to Clipboard' for Modern Browsers in Under 1KB code
Michael Cavalea

injection-js: A Dependency Injection Library Extracted From Angular code
Minko Gechev

HyperApp: 1KB JavaScript Library for Building Modern UI Applications code
Jorge Bucaran

Gridtab: A jQuery Plugin to Build Grid Based Responsive Tabs code

Avoriaz: A Vue.js Testing Utility Library code
Edd Yerburgh

vanilla-tilt.js: A 3D Element Tilting Library (without the jQuery Dependency) code
A fork of tilt.js that we linked last week.

React-Redux Grid: A Grid + Tree Component using the Redux Pattern code
Benjamin Cripps

fast-memoize.js: The 'Fastest Possible' JS Memoization Library code
Caio Gondim