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title: "#336: npm 5.0 Released"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 336
published_at: "2017-05-26"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/336"
---

#336: npm 5.0 Released

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JavaScript WeeklyIssue 336 — May 26, 2017[npm 5.0 Released](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/161081169345/v500)The popular JavaScript package manager takes some big steps forward with significantly improved performance. It’ll also be included with Node 8, due next week. npm 
[V8, Advanced JavaScript, and the Next Performance Frontier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFDJANJJLs)Seth Thompson of the V8 team gave a 40 minute talk at Google I/O about how V8 is going, recent performance improvements, etc. all backed up with diagrams and benchmarks. YouTube 
[The State of JavaScript Modules](https://medium.com/webpack/the-state-of-javascript-modules-4636d1774358)An explanation and summary of the current state of various approaches. Johannes Ewald 
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[ORY Editor: A Customizable WYSIWYG Content Editor](https://github.com/ory/editor)A smart, extensible and modern WYSIWYG editor built with React, Slate.js and Redux. ORY 
[Preact: Into The Void](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY6y3HbDVmg)A look at the internals of Preact, a tiny 3KB React alternative. Plus, Jason sheds light on fundamentals like JSX and Virtual DOM, and demystifies DOM diffing. Jason Miller 
[Comparing Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, Tape and Jest](https://raygun.com/blog/javascript-unit-testing-frameworks/)A look over five popular unit testing frameworks to help you decide which is best for you. Ben Harding 
[This Week's Node Weekly](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/189)Did you know we have a separate newsletter focused on Node? This week’s top items include [Node.js Streams: Everything You Need to Know](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/node-js-streams-everything-you-need-to-know-c9141306be93), [Load Balancing Node Apps with NGINX and Docker](https://auth0.com/blog/load-balancing-nodejs-applications-with-nginx-and-docker/) and the [Node 8.0 RC1 builds.](https://nodejs.org/download/rc/v8.0.0-rc.1/) Node Weekly 


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In Brief

[Twilio Introduces 'Functions' to Serverlessly Script Their Services with JS](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/05/introducing-twilio-functions.html) news 
Upload JavaScript to handling incoming calls, text messages, etc.
Twilio

[Higher-Order Functions in Lodash](http://pragmatists.pl/blog/2017/05/higher-order-functions-in-lodash/) tutorial
Michał Piotrkowski

[Managing Async Dependencies with fetch-inject](https://hackcabin.com/post/managing-async-dependencies-javascript/) tutorial
Josh Habdas

[Event Bubbling and Event Propagation Explained](https://www.sitepoint.com/event-bubbling-javascript/) tutorial
Giulio Mainardi

[How To (Safely) Use a jQuery Plugin With Vue.js](http://vuejsdevelopers.com/2017/05/20/vue-js-safely-jquery-plugin/) tutorial

[How to Make a Simple JavaScript Quiz](https://www.sitepoint.com/simple-javascript-quiz/) tutorial
Yaphi Berhanu

[Highlight Text Within a String Using Angular and Regular Expressions](http://developer.telerik.com/topics/web-development/highlight-text-within-string-using-angular-regular-expressions/) tutorial
Nic Raboy

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[You Might Not Need to Transpile Your JavaScript](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/you-might-not-need-to-transpile-your-javascript-4d5e0a438ca) opinion
Alex Ewerlöf

[Why One Developer Chose ClojureScript Over JavaScript](https://m.oursky.com/why-i-chose-clojure-over-javascript-24f045daab7e) opinion

[React vs Angular: Two Sides of JavaScript](https://blog.prototypr.io/react-vs-angular-two-sides-of-javascript-b850de22b413) opinion
Cleveroad

[Preact CLI: Create and Build Preact Apps More Easily](https://github.com/developit/preact-cli) tools
Jason Miller

[React Live: A Playground for Live Editing React Components](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-live) tools
Formidable

[Add Powerful UI Components to your React Apps with ExtReact](http://pages.sencha.com/extreact-powerful-ui-components-cp.html) tools 
Learn how to build data-intensive, cross-platform web apps leveraging over 115 Sencha components and React.
Sencha, Inc.Sponsor

[ArrayCompress: Efficient Compression of Arrays to Strings](https://github.com/sirrodgepodge/arrayCompress) code 
Useful if you need to store as string in a DB.
Roger Beaman

[Chromatism: A Simple Set of Utility Functions for Colors](https://github.com/toish/chromatism) code 
Nice visual examples in the README.
Graham Pegg

[asm-dom: A Minimal Perf-Focused WebAssembly Virtual DOM](https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom) code
Matteo Basso

[Birdview.js: A UI Experiment to View an Entire Page at Once](http://achrafkassioui.com/birdview/) code 
Fits a visual ‘birds-eye’ overview of a web page into your viewport.
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