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A look at recent efforts within the V8 team to bring the performance of newly added JavaScript features on par with their transpiled ES5 counterparts.
Michael Hablich
The V8 team is working on a new compiler pipeline that will increase performance. You can already test it out in Chrome Canary by enabling an experimental flag.
Michael Hablich
Neutrino combines the build and configuration power of Webpack with the capability to build JavaScript-based projects with presets. An introductory post here.
Eli Perelman
Get real-time crash alerts and collect detailed diagnostics so you can fix errors for your users. See deminified stacktraces with support for sourcemaps. Cut through front-end noise so you can efficiently assess the impact of errors. Learn more.
Bugsnag
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A key release for the testing tool. Tests now re-run instantly after a file change and a typeahead feature has been added to make it easy to select the right tests.
Rogelio Guzman
The optionally-typed JavaScript extension adds improved code actions for editors, a new ‘object’ type, better class support for mixins, & more. Sitepen has an article with more details.
Microsoft
A fun site where the only messages you post are essentially tiny pieces of JavaScript that render simple demos into canvas elements. See this one for example.
Late last year we launched a React-specific newsletter due to the growth of the React ecosystem. If you use React and haven’t seen it yet, check it out :-)
Cooperpress
A feature-based comparison of five image processing libraries that work within the browser.
WebKid
Async/await won’t free you entirely from having to break out promises every so often.
Daniel Brain
Covers the basics of each key stage in a compiler as simply as possible. Note: The posts use KLIPSE to provide interactive examples.
Yehonathan Sharvit
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ECMAScript 2016+ Support in Firefox news
A technical update on the support for the latest JavaScript features in Firefox.
Mozilla
CoffeeScript 2.0.0-alpha1 Released news
New course: Learn How to Build Real World Apps with Angular 2+ course
Learn how real world authentication, CRUD, best practices, advanced patterns, and more work in Angular 2 by rebuilding the Angular 2 RealWorld project step-by-step.
Thinkster Sponsor
A 10 Minute Primer on Modules, Module Formats, Loaders and Bundlers tutorial
Jurgen Van de Moere
How to Build a jQuery Plugin to Provide User Sortable Lists tutorial
SitePoint
What You Should Know About Numbers in ES6 tutorial
Just Chris
What You Should Know About ES6 Maps tutorial
Just Chris
From Angular 1.x's angular.module to Angular 2'x ngModule tutorial
Todd Motto
Making Your Code Cleaner with Method Decorators tutorial
Netanel Basal
Building Delicious Forms with Ember.js video
Ben Holmes
[Whitepaper] The Future of JavaScript—2017 and Beyond opinion
2017 predictions for the key and rising JavaScript libraries and frameworks and JS’s New Frontiers in this whitepaper
Progress Sponsor
It’s Time to Give TypeScript Another Chance opinion
Jason Dreyzehner
React’s JSX vs Vue’s Templates: A Showdown on the Front End opinion
Juan Vega
babel-preset-env: A Preset That Configures Babel for You tools
A preset for Babel that lets you specify an environment and it automatically enables the necessary plugins.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
5 jQuery Pagination Plugins tools
SitePoint
unfetch: Bare Minimum 'Fetch' Polyfill in 500 Bytes code
A ‘barely polyfill’ that implements a subset of the full Fetch API.
Jason Miller
Vuedeux: A Utility Layer for Binding Vuex to Redux code
AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web code
Jerome Etienne
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