Everything New in ES2016, 2017, and 2018

#380 — April 6, 2018

JavaScript Weekly

Examples of Everything New in ES2016, 2017, and 2018— This is a worthwhile roundup of all the new bits and pieces in recent ECMAScript specs, but note that SharedBufferArray support has been disabled in most runtimes due to Spectre, so give that a miss.

Raja Rao DV

Martin Fowler Announces 2nd Edition of "Refactoring"; Switches Book from Java to JavaScript— This is a big deal given the weight this book has in the field.

Martin Fowler

JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A wasm-bindgen Tale— wasm-bindgen enables interoperability between WebAssembly modules and JavaScript.

Alex Crichton

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▶ Learn RxJS in 60 Minutes for Beginners— RxJS is used for reactive programming using observable streams and this is a great ‘from scratch’ crash course.

Gary Simon

Understanding JavaScript Proxies— Uses an examination of Sindre Sorhus’ on-change library to dig into how proxies, a feature introduced in ES6, work.

Arfat Salman

A Beginner’s Guide to JavaScript Geolocation Tracking— A 4 part series from PubNub brought together in one place walking through bringing the Google Maps JavaScript API together with PubNub’s real-time services.

Joe Hanson

webpack 4.5.0 Released

webpack on Twitter

What's New in Aurelia? Aurelia's 2018 Q1 Report— Aurelia is also now included in the RealWorld project.

Rob Eisenberg

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📘 Tutorials

Hit The Ground Running with Vue.js and Firestore— Firestore is a new data storage approach from Google Firebase.

Lukas Van Driel

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Tips to Make Your webpack Bundle Smaller When Using JS Libraries

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Dr. Axel's JavaScript Array Cheatsheet

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer