JavaScript Weekly
Issue 344 — July 21, 2017
“In JavaScript, any function can return an object. When it does so without the new keyword, it’s a factory function.”
Eric Elliot

A fun look at the mechanics behind a seemingly simple snippet of JavaScript that doesn’t do what you’d expect. Beware of hidden Unicode characters.
Stefan Judis

This popular survey returns for its second year to see which “buzzwords are here to stay and which ones will soon fall to JavaScript fatigue”.
Sacha Greif

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Nirmalya Ghosh shows you how to use Firebase’s real-time database features, coupled with create-react-app, to build a basic Reddit clone with live voting.
SitePoint

Compiles specially written JavaScript functions into shader language (GLSL) and runs them on the GPU via WebGL.
Sapuan, Saw and Cheah

“a good bit has changed in browser land since the last ‘You Might Not Need jQuery’ article you might have stumbled upon”
Ollie Williams

An explanation of a proposed new binary AST format and what benefits it could bring.
Shu-yu Guo

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In Brief

Angular 4.3 Now Available news
A minor release that contains no breaking changes. Full changelog.
Stephen Fluin

New Book: How to Earn More as a Software Developer news
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Implementing the MVC Design Pattern in Vanilla JavaScript tutorial
SitePoint

How to Use Polymer with Webpack tutorial
Rob Dodson

Extracting Logic from React Components tutorial
Jack Franklin

An ES Proposal Explained: RegExp Unicode Property Escapes tutorial
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Webpack’s import() Will Soon Fetch JS + CSS — Here’s How To Do It tutorial
James Gillmore

Preventing a Mobile Browser From Sleeping with NoSleep.js tutorial
NoSleep.js is a small Wake Lock API shim to prevent the browser and device from going to sleep.
David Walsh

Angular Testing In Depth: Components tutorial
Gábor Soós

4 Important Changes in Vue.js 2.4 tutorial
Anthony Gore

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RxJS By Example video
Ben Lesh

Vue.js 2.0 From Scratch in 60 Minutes video
Brad Traversy

Control Things in the Real World with Web Bluetooth and Puck.js video
Gordon Williams

Tabris.js 2.0 Released: Develop Native iOS and Android Apps in JS tools
EclipseSource

emojify-webpack-plugin: Transforms Code Into Emoji tools
A humorous idea if normal minification isn’t your thing.
Mechazawa

“CircleCI 2.0 is fast. We reduced builds from minutes to 12 seconds.” tools
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Express React Starter: Starter Project for create-react-app + Express.js code
Burke Holland

Wade: Fast, 1KB Trie-based Search for JavaScript code
And a related blog post.
Kabir Shah