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Based on D3.js v4 and built around reusable components, Britecharts makes it easy to declaratively build charts and visualizations, such as this. There’s lots of info in this introductory post too.
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The Fetch API is now supported in all mainstream browsers (except IE). It’s promise based and far more elegant than XMLHttpRequest. This is a very thorough intro.
Zell Liew
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ES6/ES2015 modules are now natively supported in Chrome Canary behind the Experimental Web Platform flag. Here’s the basics of how they work. You may also like this gist showing off a use case.
Sam Thorogood
Like a test runner but for performance. It runs in Chrome (headlessly too, if you have the right version) and produces reports on your code’s execution.
Nicolas Gryman
Still an alpha/work-in-progress but is significantly faster than other minifiers due to taking a unique approach. Also supports ES6 upwards.
Rich Harris
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In Brief
Jest 20 Released: Facebook's JavaScript Testing Framework news Facebook
BrazilJS 2017 Call for Papers Open (for 2 Conferences) news In Porto Alegre (Aug 25-26) and Fortaleza (Sep 1-2).
Use AngularJS to Build a Fast and Secure Chat App PubNub gets your data anywhere in under 0.25 seconds. It’s easy with PubNub’s Angular library. PubNub Sponsor
All About Recursion and Tail Calls in JavaScript tutorial Lucas Fernandes da Costa
Writing Secure Node.js Code: A Write Up and Video tutorial node Danny Grander
Component Architecture Recipes for Angular’s Reactive Forms tutorial Todd Motto
Building an 'Infinite Tube' WebGL Demo with Three.js tutorial Louis Hoebregts
Module Specifiers: What’s New with ES Modules? tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
What's A Transducer? Some In-Depth Functional Fun tutorial Reg Braithwaite
An 'Ultimate' Atom Editor Setup for JS Development tutorial Tons of recommended packages here if you’re an Atom user. Elad Ossadon
Altering the DOM with JavaScript (For Beginners) tutorial Zell Liew
Proactively detect 🕵️ JavaScript errors and fix them for your users. tools Bugsnag Sponsor
10 jQuery-Powered HTML5 Audio Players tools Michael Wanyoike
Reaction: A Real-Time Reactive, JavaScript E-Commerce Platform code Reaction Commerce
Elasticlunr.js: Lightweight Full-Text Search Engine for the Browser code Wei Song
A Vue.js Gantt Chart Plugin for Presenting Weekly Tasks code Levin Van
Sticky Sidebar jQuery Plugin code Well documented and with live examples. Ahmed Bouhuolia
How to find and fix the slowest code in your .NET application Find bottlenecks in your code or database & boost performance with ANTS Performance Profiler. Try it free now. Red Gate Sponsor
P.S. Wondering where all the React stuff is? It's in its own newsletter, React Status. Today's issue is packed full of great stuff including D3-based viz components for React and a new React news podcast.
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