Glimmer's fast UI components / Angular 4.0 / Mixing generators into iterators - JavaScript Weekly

Glimmer: Fast UI Components from the Ember Ecosystem: Glimmer’s fast components can be used outside of Ember but could also provide an easy way to gradually pick up the framework. There’s a great intro video. - EMBER.JS PROJECT

The Mandelwat Set: A JS Introduction to Fractals: A fun journey into the world of fractals, starting from an empty canvas and going through the math and logic involved in rendering a Mandlebrot set of your own. - JEFF FOWLER

Angular 4.0 Released: 4.0.0 (‘invisible-makeover’) is here. Backwards compatible with Angular 2 and most apps will port straight over unless they use animations. Also learn why it's 4.0 and not 3.0. - STEPHEN FLUIN

Where 'async' and 'await' Can Beat Promises: Some straightforward examples of using ES2016's async/await vs promises. async/await are natively supported in Node 7.6, as well as via Babel. - MOSTAFA GAAFAR

The Basics of DOM Manipulation without jQuery: A crash course in DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript, using methods like querySelectorAll and addEventListener. - SEBASTIAN SEITZ

Mixing Generators Into Iterators: Iterators can be written using generators which can lead to an interesting use case. - NICOLáS BEVACQUA

Popper.js: A Popover/Tooltip Library Written in ES6: Elegant and well documented, with many examples on the homepage. No dependencies. - FEDERICO ZIVOLO

This Week's Top Node News: Over in Node Weekly we covered Next.js 2.0, a look back at left-pad, and what 'const' stands for in ES6. - NODE WEEKLY

IN BRIEF

A New Proposed Policy on JS Dialogs for Chromium (NEWS): “the Chromium team highly recommends that you not use JavaScript dialogs” - GOOGLE

Pluralsight Releases 'Getting Started with Ember 2' Course (NEWS)

77% of Sites Use At Least 1 Vulnerable JS Library (NEWS) - SNYK

Tuning Angular's Change Detection (TUTORIAL) - JURI STRUMPFLOHNER

Maybe You Should Use 'Maybes' to Wrap Optional Values (TUTORIAL) - ALEXANDER JARVIS

Creating an Angular 2 Injectable Service (TUTORIAL): Compares creating and registering services in Angular 1.x vs 2+. - TODD MOTTO

Creating Mondrian-Style Grid Paintings with JavaScript (TUTORIAL) - MAX HALFORD

Dr. Axel's JavaScript Coding and Style Tips (2014) (VIDEO): A golden oldie. - AXEL RAUSCHMAYER

JavaScript Framework Battle: ‘Hello World’ in Each CLI (OPINION): A look at how framework command-line interfaces compare to each other. - SHANE OSBOURNE

5 ES8 Features and A Wishlist for ES9 (OPINION) - DYLAN SCHIEMANN

Fuel: A Beta/In-Progress React-Compatible Virtual DOM Implementation (TOOLS) - TAKETOSHI AONO

Polished: A Lightweight Toolset for Writing Styles in JavaScript (TOOLS) - MAXIMILIAN STOIBER

Choices: Configurable Select Box and Text Input (without jQuery) (CODE): Similar to Select2 and Selectize but without the jQuery dependency. - JOSHUA JACKSON

FSM-as-Promised: A Finite State Machine Library built on ES6 Promises (CODE) - VLAD STIRBU

D3-Node: Server-Side D3 for Static Chart/Map Generation (CODE)

TypeScript Example Boilerplate Demonstrating a Modern Tool Pipeline (CODE):  “TypeScript + Visual Studio Code + Jest + Yarn + TypeDoc = Eternal bliss” - MARK BAUERMEISTER

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