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title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 324"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 324
published_at: "2017-03-02"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/324"
---

This week's JavaScript news, issue 324

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JavaScript WeeklyIssue 324 — March 2, 2017[A Feature Watch on ECMAScript 2018](http://www.2ality.com/2017/02/ecmascript-2018.html)Not a _lot_ to see yet, but Axel has done a great job of maintaining similar posts in the past if you want to keep up to date with the latest ES specs. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer 
[WebAssembly Complete Enough to Deploy, Gets A Logo](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2017Feb/0002.html)The W3C WebAssembly Community Group says the design of WebAssembly is complete enough that browsers can ship it “on by default”. An [official logo](https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/980) has also been chosen. W3C 
[Stanford Trialling JavaScript for Introductory CS Courses](http://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/02/28/cs-department-updates-introductory-courses/)Due to industry shifts and student feedback, Stanford is experimenting with basing its introductory computer science courses around JavaScript instead of Java. The Stanford Daily 
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[JavaScript Errors and Stack Traces in Depth](http://lucasfcosta.com/2017/02/17/JavaScript-Errors-and-Stack-Traces.html)How the call stack works, Error objects, and how and why you can manipulate stack traces. Lucas Fernandes da Costa 
[A Detailed Introduction To Webpack](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/02/a-detailed-introduction-to-webpack/)Webpack is a powerful tool that bundles your app source code efficiently for use in the browser. There have been many intros but this is another great one. Joseph Zimmerman 
[Fable: An F# to JavaScript Compiler](http://fable.io/)Brings together the F# compiler and Babel to make JavaScript a true backend for [F#](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_%28programming_language%29), a strongly typed, ML-esque language I have a big soft spot for and which [you can learn here.](http://www.tryfsharp.org/Learn/getting-started)
[V8 Behind the Scenes: The Tale of TurboFan](http://benediktmeurer.de/2017/03/01/v8-behind-the-scenes-february-edition/)The technical behind-the-scenes tale of Turbofan, one of V8’s optimizing compilers. Benedikt Meurer 


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In Brief

[Ember Developer? Take Part in the 2017 Ember Community Survey](http://emberjs.com/blog/2017/02/28/2017-ember-community-survey.html) news
Matthew Beale

[Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines and More](https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/03/kotlin-1-1/) news 
JS is now a fully supported target backend for the language.

[A List of 30 JavaScript Conferences Taking Place in 2017](https://blog.hellojs.org/2017-javascript-conferences-6cf6ef948570) news
hello JS

[What Makes WebAssembly Fast?](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/what-makes-webassembly-fast/) tutorial
Lin Clark

[Running Jest Tests Before Each Git Commit](https://benmccormick.org/2017/02/26/running-jest-tests-before-each-git-commit/) tutorial
Ben McCormick

[Using Zones in Angular for Better Performance](https://blog.thoughtram.io/angular/2017/02/21/using-zones-in-angular-for-better-performance.html) tutorial
Pascal Precht

[Points To Consider When Upgrading to Vue.js 2.2](https://alligator.io/vuejs/upgrading-vue-2.2/) tutorial
Alligator

[How to Sort an Array of Objects in JavaScript](https://www.sitepoint.com/sort-an-array-of-objects-in-javascript/) tutorial
Olayinka Omole

[JavaScript's 'void' Keyword](http://cmichel.io/javascript-void-keyword/) tutorial
Christoph Michel

[A Look at TypeScript 2.2's 'object' Type](https://blog.mariusschulz.com/2017/02/24/typescript-2-2-the-object-type) tutorial
Marius Schulz

[Using terminal to view test results is a productivity killer.](https://wallabyjs.com/) tools 
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[How We Migrated A 200K+ LOC Project to TypeScript and Survived](https://hashnode.com/post/how-we-migrated-a-200k-loc-project-to-typescript-and-survived-to-tell-the-story-ciyzhikcc0001y253w00n11yb) story
Kleo Petrov

[Converting A Large React Codebase From CoffeeScript to ES6](https://blog.bugsnag.com/converting-a-large-react-codebase-from-coffeescript-to-es6/) story
Christian Schlensker

[An (Opinionated) Map to Modern JavaScript Development](https://hackernoon.com/a-map-to-modern-javascript-development-2017-16d9eb86309c) opinion
Santiago de León

[eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y: Static AST Checker for Accessibility Rules on JSX Elements](https://github.com/evcohen/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y) tools
Ethan Cohen

[A Roundup of Vue.js-Supporting Mobile Hybrid App Frameworks](https://alligator.io/vuejs/roundup-mobile-hybrid-frameworks/) tools 
A roundup of hybrid mobile frameworks supporting Vue.js 2.0.
Alligator.io

[store.js 2.0: Cross-Browser Storage for All Use Cases](https://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js) code 
2.0 is a full revamp with pluggable storage and extra functionality.
Marcus Westin

[Anchorme: Detects Links and URLs in Text and Converts Them to Links](http://alexcorvi.github.io/anchorme.js/) code
Alex Corvi

[BigPicture.js: Lightweight Image / Video Viewer](https://github.com/henrygd/bigpicture) code 
Supports YouTube and Vimeo.
Henry Dollman

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