Babel 7.0 Released: The JavaScript Transpiler — A significant release for the popular JavaScript compiler. Some links to help you navigate your way:

• If you need just one reason to upgrade, 7.0 is a lot faster.
• There's a new upgrade tool to help you migrate.
• TypeScript support is now baked in.
• Stage presets were removed. Here's why and how to deal with it.
• Planning for 7.0 and Nearing the 7.0 Release will bring you up to date with what it's taken to get this far.

Cheat Sheet: Functional Programming with JavaScript — 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.

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shimport: Use JavaScript Modules in All Browsers — Allows you to use JS modules in all browsers, including dynamic import(). Currently experimental - the creator says “Don’t rush into production with this; it’s not battle-tested”.

Rich Harris

What's Coming Up in 'JavaScript 2018' — The latest annual ECMAScript update, published in June 2018, is the largest yearly release so far, although still far smaller than ECMAScript 6 with its backlog of already common features.

Mary Branscombe

v86: x86 Virtualization in JavaScript — Works in both the browser and Node. Check out the demos running Windows 98, Linux, and other operating systems.

Fabian Hemmer

Lerna Added (Then Removed) A License Term Blocking Some Companies From Using It — If you’re not on social media, you may have missed this story which has since concluded. Lerna, a popular tool for working with monorepos, relicensed itself to block its use at a variety of companies (including Microsoft) but after a lot of discussion and community feedback, this was reverted.

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This Week's Node Weekly Newsletter — If you’ve ever wondered why there isn’t a lot of Node stuff in JavaScript Weekly, it’s because we have a separate newsletter for that! This week we covered a V8 vulnerability and how to use Docker for Node.js development.

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Senior Front End Engineer at External Data Systems, Netflix — Help build a world class user interface for the platform that collects data to drive business insights for our teams.

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Find A JavaScript Job Through Vettery — Create a profile to connect with inspiring companies seeking JavaScript devs.

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Serverless Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js — A thorough look at getting Tensorflow, a flexible machine learning framework, to work properly in a serverless environment.

James Thomas

Building a Serverless App with MongoDB Stitch — MongoDB Stitch is a MongoDB-based serverless platform that can make it quicker to build apps in the cloud. This tutorial is a practical demonstration of using it to build a stock price monitoring app.

Valeri Karpov

Build a Netflix Style Video Delivery Platform — SDKs for all platforms - Play videos at the same quality & speed as Netflix & YouTube.

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An Introduction to React and How To Build Your First App — Not just a ‘Hello World’ example but an app that uses a router, components, and even does auth with Auth0’s service. Subscribe to our React newsletter if you get a taste for React after this ;-)

Bruno Krebs

Using Cloudflare Workers To Make Static Sites Dynamic — Cloudflare Workers places a serverless JS environment in front of your ordinary site so you can perform various tasks before a request even hits your server.

Paddy Sherry

Dynamic App Themes with CSS Variables and JavaScript

Mike Wilcox

Why is a 'Java Guy' So Excited About Node.js? — Interesting to hear from someone who worked on the Java team at Sun wax lyrical about JavaScript.

David Herron

Create A Short Digital Address for Any Location w/ AngularJS

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Why You Should Replace forEach with 'map' and 'filter'

Roope Hakulinen

Making a Progressive Web App with Webpack Just Got Easier — webpack-web-app-manifest-plugins generates a PWA manifest and integrates with the assets JSON.

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babel-upgrade: A New Tool for Automtically Upgrading Projects to Babel 7 — In case you missed it at the top of the issue!

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Catch JavaScript Errors Before Users Do — Detect JavaScript errors in real-time, then debug them in minutes. Works with Node, React, Angular, and more.

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goodshare.js: A Vue.js Component for Social Sharing Buttons — Full example here.

Vic Shóstak

Wexond: A 'Web Browser' Built on Electron and React — An interesting idea. Being Electron-based, it’s using Chromium for rendering, but the UI/chrome is React and styled-components.

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Code Surfer: A React Component for Scrolling, Zooming and Highlighting Code Samples

Rodrigo Pombo

size-plugin: Track Compressed Webpack Asset Sizes Over Time

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