--- title: "A new calendar control, Node 10, and a webpack 4 configuration tool" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 383 published_at: "2018-04-27" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/383" --- This week's JavaScript news #383 — April 27, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/383) JavaScript Weekly [![TUI Calendar example\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_800,e_sharpen/i2rcojokjbqh7r64tr1h.png)](https://github.com/nhnent/tui.calendar) [TUI Calendar: An Attractive, Full Featured Calendar Control](https://github.com/nhnent/tui.calendar) — From the creators of [TUI Chart](https://github.com/nhnent/tui.chart) comes TUI Calendar, a highly customizable JavaScript calendar widget that supports numerous view types (weekly, monthly, etc.), dragging and resizing of schedule items, and is basically like your own Google Calendar in a box. MIT licensed too. NHN Entertainment [Node 10 Released: Node Weekly's Feature Roundup](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/235) — Our sister newsletter Node Weekly featured this week’s [Node 10 release](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.0.0/) in full, including a bulletpoint rundown of new features with useful links. In short: v8 6.6, N-API goes mainstream, OpenSSL 1.1, native async iteration, new regex features.. Node Weekly [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/65d30dc7.png)](https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/kendo-ui/wp-functional-programming-with-js-cheat-sheet?utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=jsweekly&utm_campaign=kendo-ui-jquery-whitepaper-funcwithjs&utm_content=primary) [Cheat Sheet: Functional Programming with JavaScript](https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/kendo-ui/wp-functional-programming-with-js-cheat-sheet?utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=jsweekly&utm_campaign=kendo-ui-jquery-whitepaper-funcwithjs&utm_content=primary) — JavaScript developers, here’s a handy resource for your reference stack. This cheat sheet structures some of the language features most commonly used by JavaScript developers interested in writing functional style code. Check it out. Progress Kendo UI sponsor [Native-Like Animations for Page Transitions on the Web](https://css-tricks.com/native-like-animations-for-page-transitions-on-the-web/) — A practical introduction to creating silky smooth, super slick transitions of entire pages from one layout to another, built around Vue.js. [Live demo here.](https://page-transitions.com/) Sarah Drasner [A Proposal for Adding Pattern Matching to ECMAScript](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching) — It’s currently at stage 0, but see what you think. Ecma TC39 [The New 'npm' CLI: A Year in Review (Or 'What You May Have Missed')](https://blog.npmjs.org/post/173240511455/the-new-npm-cli-a-year-in-review-or-what-you) — An easy to follow roundup of new npm features since 5.0 was released, including `npx` and `npm ci`. 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Umed Khudoiberdiev node And over on Reddit.. [jQuery's 'data' Method Goes Haywire for the Name 'Infinity'](https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8f57i1/psa_there_are_over_1000_people_in_the_us_named/) — This is one of those “oh, weird!” items. Basically jQuery’s `data` method can see the string ‘Infinity’ and convert it to a number. Even more intriguingly, Paul Irish stepped in to take the blame :-) We love you Paul! Reddit Curated by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) and [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) 'JavaScript' is a trademark of Oracle Corporation in the US We are not endorsed by or affiliated with Oracle. [Change your email address](https://javascriptweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*) or[Stop getting this newsletter](https://javascriptweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*) © Cooper Press Ltd · Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom