--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 322" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 322 published_at: "2017-02-16" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/322" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 322 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/322) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 322 — February 16, 2017[JavaScript's Journey Through 2016](http://developer.telerik.com/topics/web-development/javascripts-journey-2016/)The team at Telerik looks back at their predictions for JavaScript in 2016 and then ahead at what we might expect for the language in 2017. Tara Manicsic [JavaScript Without Loops](http://jrsinclair.com/articles/2017/javascript-without-loops/)If you find yourself reaching for `while` or `for`, think again - maybe `map`, `reduce`, `filter`, or `find` could result in more elegant, less complex code. James Sinclair [An Update on ES6 Modules in Node.js](https://medium.com/@jasnell/an-update-on-es6-modules-in-node-js-42c958b890c)James, who wrote [a great post on work on modules at TC-39](https://hackernoon.com/node-js-tc-39-and-modules-a1118aecf95e), returns with an update on how things are progressing. James M Snell [![Frontend Masters\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/27b1a5c4.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/elm/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)[New Course: Make back-end developers jealous, with Elm 😉](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/elm/)Write bullet-proof, easily maintainable web applications with Elm, the functional programming language that is transforming web application development! 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