--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 273" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 273 published_at: "2016-03-04" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/273" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 273 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/273) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 273 — March 4, 2016 If you're at [O'Reilly Fluent](http://conferences.oreilly.com/fluent/javascript-html-us) in San Francisco next week, come and say hi to the CooperPress team and get some ES6 stickers from us :-) If you want to come to Fluent's meetups and hallway track for free, use code `EH16SP` with the [Exhibit Hall pass.](http://conferences.oreilly.com/fluent/javascript-html-us/public/content/exhibit-hall-plus) See you there![What's New in jQuery 3](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/whats-new-in-jquery-3/) Aurelia De Rosa details all of the important additions, changes and deprecations in the upcoming version of jQuery. Telerik Developer Network [Enzyme: JavaScript Testing utilities for React](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/enzyme-javascript-testing-utilities-for-react-a417e5e5090f) A look at Enzyme, a library for testing React components. Airbnb [Google Preps Angular2 for Final Release](http://thenewstack.io/google-preps-angular-2-final-release/) A high level look at what’s going on with Angular2 and who’s already using it in production. The New Stack [![Telerik Kendo UI\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0ff6b91d.jpg)](http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/kendo-ui/javascript-future?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_campaign=dt-kendo-js-2016-wp-mar4)[The Future of JavaScript—2016 and Beyond](http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/kendo-ui/javascript-future?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_campaign=dt-kendo-js-2016-wp-mar4)Will JavaScript continue to rise in use? What’s in store for the most popular JavaScript frameworks? Learn the answers to these questions in this whitepaper containing interviews with developers building the JavaScript of tomorrow. Telerik Kendo UISponsor [A Feature by Feature ES6 vs ES5 Speed Comparison](https://kpdecker.github.io/six-speed/) Yes, benchmarks, so your mileage may vary, but 5 browsers and 2 Node runtimes were used along with numerous ways to run the ES6 code on each. Kevin Decker [How to Create a Text-to-Speech Chrome Extension](http://www.sitepoint.com/create-text-to-speech-chrome-extension/) A succinct look at creating a Chrome extension that uses the Web Speech API to read out content upon the user’s request. Ivan Dimov [Angular Attack: A 48 Hour Online Angular Hackathon](https://www.angularattack.com/) This comes from the folks who run the Rails Rumble and Node Knockout, so it’ll be good. Reg opens on March 1 and the competition is May 14-15. RumbleX [Server-Side Rendering With React, Node And Express](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/server-side-rendering-react-node-express/) An very in-depth tutorial, with code, diagrams, and insights into the process behind creating an isomorphic React and Express app. Smashing Magazine [Rebass: 55 React UI Components](http://jxnblk.com/rebass/) A variety of stateless, functional components to use, including cards, labels, buttons, toolbars, dropdowns, and many more. Brent Jackson Jobs - [Software Engineer, Knowledge Delivery (London, UK)](https://engineering.alphasights.com/positions/software-engineering-knowledge-delivery-associate?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)You’ll build the software that powers our core business model and gives smart people great tools to best deliver on their work. You’ll code in Ruby and EmberJS with the opportunity to bring in new languages that fit. 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[Using Aurelia for Next Generation Web Apps (March 8, Online)](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bemyapp-webinar-aurelia-next-generation-web-apps-w-rob-eisenberg-tickets-21561708651?aff=jsweekly) news A webinar next Tuesday with Rob Eisenberg, the creator of Aurelia. Rob Eisenberg [Ember.js 2.4 and 2.5 Beta Released](http://emberjs.com/blog/2016/02/29/ember-2-4-released.html) news [Object.values(), .entries() and .getOwnPropertyDescriptors() Now in Chrome](https://twitter.com/malyw/status/704972953029623808) news Serg Gospodarets [WebAssembly May Go Live in Browsers This Year](http://www.infoworld.com/article/3040037/javascript/webassembly-may-go-live-in-browsers-this-year.html) news InfoWorld [JavaScript Frameworks in 2016](http://www.clock.co.uk/blog/javascript-frameworks-in-2016) tutorial Quick summaries of the main players. Niall O'Brien [ES6 Arrow functions vs. bind()](http://www.2ality.com/2016/02/arrow-functions-vs-bind.html) tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [How To Secure AngularJS Apps With JSON Web Tokens](https://stormpath.com/blog/jwt-authentication-angularjs/?utm_source=javascript-weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=jwt-auth-angularjs) tutorial Everything you need to know about using JWTs securely, preventing XSS and CSRF attacks, and OAuth Access and Refresh Tokens. StormpathSponsor [Interactive JavaScript Charts Using Data from Google Sheets](http://www.sitepoint.com/interactive-javascript-charts-using-data-from-google-sheets/) tutorial Use jQuery to fetch JSON from Google’s _Sheets_ cloud spreadsheet system then render a chart on a Web page. Rohit Boggarapu [Creating a GraphQL Server with Node.js and MongoDB](http://www.sitepoint.com/creating-graphql-server-nodejs-mongodb/) tutorial node SitePoint [Create Interactive Charts with ui-grid and Angular Chart](https://medium.com/algotech-solutions/create-interactive-charts-with-ui-grid-and-angular-chart-8e0c436cc0ec) tutorial AlgoTech Solutions [Computed Property Caching in Ember](https://m.alphasights.com/computed-property-caching-in-ember-941c8eff98ed#.ezayisee6) tutorial Will Raxworthy [The Angular Core Team on Angular 2, RxJS, and TypeScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R62iQvZ0bdQ) video 3 talks back to back. 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