Weekly Dev News 1
10 Nov 2015Collection of articles, links, projects and other stuff about development
Development
Regular expressions
Learning Regular Expressions: The Practical Way by Hugo Giraudel
A quick and dirty list of tools to master Regular expressions, with newcomers and some old friends
- regular expresions 101
- RegExr (GitHub: gskinner/regexr)
- Regexper (GitHub: javallone/regexper-static)
- Debuggex has some kind of fuzz testing and is embeddable in Stack Overflow
Functional programming
An ongoing series about functional programming with Ramda by Thomas Collardeau
JavaScript
ES6/ES2015
ECMAScript 6 — New Features: Overview & Comparison (GitHub:rse/es6-features) by Ralf S. Engelschall is a series of articles about specific features of ES6, from Modules, Clases and Promises to more advanced topics like Symbols and Proxies in ES6 in Depth by Nicolas Bevacqua
Babel 6.0.0 is released and it will no longer transpile your ES2015 code by default.
- Setting up Babel 6 by James Kyle
- The Six Things You Need To Know About Babel 6 by James K Nelson
Modules
- Use jspm with ES6 modules to be future proof and consume any module from any registry in Choose ES6 modules Today! by Cody Lindley
ServiceWorker
Service worker allows rich offline experiences, periodic background syncs and push notifications in the web. A use case can be found in Building an offline page for theguardian.com by Oliver Joseph Ash and more information in Service worker articles by Nicolas Bevacqua