---
title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 312"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 312
published_at: "2016-12-01"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/312"
---

This week's JavaScript news, issue 312

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JavaScript WeeklyIssue 312 — December 1, 2016

Some readers have been wondering where the React news has gone - we started [React Status](http://react.statuscode.com/issues/13) a few months ago focusing on React, so check it out for your dose of React-only news :-)[Frameworks Without The Framework: Why Didn't We Think of This Sooner?](https://svelte.technology/blog/frameworks-without-the-framework/)Rich Harris introduces [Svelte](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte), a new 'disappearing' UI framework built around the idea that a framework need not be distributed to end users, but that framework code could be _compiled_ in advance for more efficient use in production. Rich Harris 
[JavaScript Developers: Watch Your Language](https://bocoup.com/weblog/javascript-developers-watch-your-language)A warning against using too many cutting edge, experimental features, and a look at how new features go through a multi-stage process that’s often overlooked. Mike Pennisi 
[Advanced JS Performance with V8 and WebAssembly [video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvZdTZ1Nl5o)A look at the current state of the V8 JavaScript engine, the WebAssembly project, and the relevance of both on JavaScript performance. _34 minutes._ Seth Thompson 
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[Managing State in Aurelia: How to Use Aurelia with Redux](https://www.sitepoint.com/managing-state-aurelia-with-redux/)Vildan Softic builds a Markdown editor with undo/redo functionality to demonstrate using Redux to manage state in Aurelia apps. Sitepoint 
[Inferno: A Fast, React-Like UI Library](https://github.com/trueadm/inferno)Component driven and with a one-way data flow architecture. Only 7KB in size, and includes a feature to migrate from React quickly. Dominic Gannaway 
[The Future of Aurelia: Roadmap and Upcoming Features](https://www.sitepoint.com/future-of-aurelia-roadmap-features/)Rob Eisenberg takes a look at the future of Aurelia, from tooling to server-side rendering to a look at Aurelia UX, Aurelia’s open source sister framework. Sitepoint 


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In Brief

[Int64 and Uint64 Now Stage 1 Proposals](https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/804121369910734849) news
Brendan Eich on Twitter

[Angular 2.2.4 and 2.3.0-rc0 Released](https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) news

[Ember 2.10 and 2.11 Beta Released](http://emberjs.com/blog/2016/11/30/ember-2-10-released.html) news
Godfrey Chan, Brendan McCloughlin & Nathan Hammond

[The State of Front-End Tooling 2016 Survey Results](https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-results) news 
A lot of insights from the responses of 4715 developers.
Ashley Nolan

[Lambda@Edge: New AWS Service for Running JS at AWS Edge Locations](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-lambda-at-the-edge/) news 
Only in preview for now.
Amazon Web Services

[Integrated Continuous Testing Tool for JavaScript](https://wallabyjs.com/) tools 
Instant feedback from your tests and realtime code coverage right in your editor, now with coverage reports.
Wallaby.jsSponsor

[How to Animate Router Transitions in Angular 2](https://medium.com/google-developer-experts/angular-2-animate-router-transitions-6de179e00204) tutorial
Gerard Sans

[Clean Up Your Vue Modules with ES6 Arrow Functions](https://dotdev.co/clean-up-your-vue-modules-with-es6-arrow-functions-2ef65e348d41) tutorial
Jacob Bennett

[A Friendly Introduction to Vue.js](https://appendto.com/2016/11/a-friendly-introduction-to-vue-js/) tutorial
Chase Allen

[How to Use Bootstrap Components without jQuery](https://www.sitepoint.com/use-bootstrap-components-without-jquery/) tutorial
Giulio Mainardi

[A Look at Advanced Data Tables in React](https://techblog.commercetools.com/advanced-data-tables-in-react-dbe33f8345ab) opinion 
Comparisons, plus suggestions on which to choose depending on your context.
Philipp Sporrer

[Vue.js Fundamentals in 10 Parts](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwAKR305CRO_1yAao-8aZiQnBqJeyng4O#vuejsfundamentals) video
J. Alexander Curtis

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[babel-plugin-log-deprecated: Adds console.warn to Deprecated Functions](https://github.com/gajus/babel-plugin-log-deprecated) tools
Gajus Kuizinas

[ng2d3: A D3 + Angular2 Composable Reusable Charting Framework](https://github.com/swimlane/ng2d3) code
Swimlane

[Angular 2 Idle Preload: Preload Async Routes During Idle Time](https://github.com/AngularClass/angular2-idle-preload) code
Patrick Stapleton

[floating.js: Float Things Over A Page (emojis, hearts, snow, etc.)](https://haroen.me/floating.js/) code 
Not the classiest effect ever, but.. it’s December :-)
Haroen Viaene

[Vuelidate: Simple, Lightweight Model-Based Validation for Vue.js](https://github.com/monterail/vuelidate) code
Monterail

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