Issue 72

Must Read

I Still Love jQuery — And You Should, Too

Sam Oldenburg reveals the top reasons why JQuery is still relevant in 2017.

Learn

React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our frontend UI library

Take a look at today's latest release of React 16 and how it supports support asynchronous rendering while keeping the public API essentially unchanged.

Angular vs. React vs. Vue: A 2017 Comparison

Deciding on a JavaScript framework for your web application can be overwhelming. This post compares the three of today's JavaScript frameworks - Angular, React, and Vue.

Vue 2.5 released

In this post are some of the more prominent changes in the latest release. These include better TypeScript integration, better error handling, better support for functional components in single-file components, and environment-agnostic server-side rendering.

React 16 Release: What’s New?

ReactJS 16 brings major changes to the popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Learn what's new in ReactJS!

Tools & Code

Use ES Modules in Node Today!

John-David Dalton, Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team and creator of the popular Lodash JavaScript library shares the news of a new community project to bring ECMAScript modules to Node.

Watch

A Look at New DevTools Features for JavaScript [video]

Yang Guo talks about thenew DevTools for JavaScript. He demonstrates code coverage, type profiling, and give a deep dive into how evaluating a code snippet in DevTools console works in V8.

Interesting Links

Redux vs MobX: Which Is Best for Your Project?

Writing command line tools has also become easier than ever before because of Node.js — not just any command line tools, but tools that are interactive, useful and less time-consuming to develop.