---
title: "A look at Webpack 2, a preview of WebAssembly, and Brendan Eich talks JavaScript"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 308
published_at: "2016-11-03"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/308"
---

A look at Webpack 2, a preview of WebAssembly, and Brendan Eich talks JavaScript

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JavaScript WeeklyIssue 308 — November 3, 2016[Getting Started with Webpack 2](https://blog.madewithenvy.com/getting-started-with-webpack-2-ed2b86c68783)A walk through a soon to be released 2nd version of the popular JavaScript bundler. Jack Franklin has also written a handy [migrating to Webpack 2 guide.](http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2016/10/moving-to-webpack-2/) Drew Powers 
[Brendan Eich on JavaScript and the Web Platform](https://javascriptair.com/episodes/2016-11-02/)Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, is the special guest for the very last episode of JavaScript Air. JavaScript Air 
[Adventures in Aurelia: Creating a Custom PDF Viewer](https://www.sitepoint.com/aurelia-custom-pdf-viewer-component/)Jedd Ahyoung demonstrates how to combine the power of PDF.js and the Aurelia framework to create a custom PDF viewer with two way data binding. Jedd Ahyoung 
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[SkateJS: Cross-Framework Web Component Library Built on W3C Specs](https://github.com/skatejs/skatejs)A library built on top of the W3C web component specs for writing functional and performant web components with a small footprint. Trey Shugart 
[Webpack Plugin and CLI Tool to Visualize Bundle Contents in a Treemap](https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack-bundle-analyzer)A great effect visually, but also a practical way to see what’s contained within bundled JavaScript files and what’s taking up the most space. Yuriy Grunin 
[Easy Angular Authentication with JSON Web Tokens](http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/11/easy-angular-authentication-with-json.html)Stateless authentication is a great fit for Angular apps. In this post, Ryan Chenkie talks about implementing it using JSON Web Tokens. Ryan Chenkie 
[WebAssembly Browser Previews Now Available](http://webassembly.org/roadmap/)The WebAssembly project has reached a _Browser Preview_ stage, with multiple interoperable implementations from [Firefox](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/10/webassembly-browser-preview/), [Edge](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/10/31/webassembly-browser-preview/) and the [V8 project](http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/10/webassembly-browser-preview.html) to try. Seth Thompson 
[Webpack or Browserify and Gulp: Which Is Better?](https://www.toptal.com/front-end/webpack-browserify-gulp-which-is-better)Some insights into the pros and cons of different JavaScript and asset packaging approaches. Eric Grosse 
[The Latest Issue of Our New React Newsletter](http://react.statuscode.com/issues/10)We're at issue 10 now and putting most of our React stories there instead. React Status 


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[async/await Support in Firefox Nightly](https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2016/11/01/async-await-support-in-firefox/) news
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[Join us for Chrome Dev Summit 2016 via Livestream on November 10-11th](https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit/#notifications) news 
All sessions of Chrome Dev Summit 2016 will be livestreamed from [our website](https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit/) on Nov. 10-11. [Sign up](https://services.google.com/fb/forms/cds2016/) for [livestream updates](https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit/#notifications).
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[Using HTML Form Validation in Pure JavaScript](https://www.raymondcamden.com/2016/10/19/using-html-form-validation-in-pure-javascript) tutorial
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[Angular 2 Testing In Depth: How to Test Services and Use DI](https://auth0.com/blog/angular-2-testing-in-depth-services/) tutorial
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[Getting Started with Ember and 'Data Down Actions Up'](https://emberigniter.com/getting-started-ember-cli-data-down-actions-up-tutorial/) tutorial
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[Make Dynamic Tables in Seconds from JSON Data](https://www.sitepoint.com/dynamic-tables-json/) tutorial 
Tabulator is a jQuery UI plugin for quickly creating dynamic tables.
Oli Folkerd

[Building an Autocomplete Widget with React](https://webapplog.com/autocomplete-react/) tutorial
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[Generating Sounds Programmatically in the Browser with JavaScript](http://marcgg.com/blog/2016/11/01/javascript-audio/) tutorial
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[A Study Plan To Cure JavaScript Fatigue](https://medium.com/@sachagreif/a-study-plan-to-cure-javascript-fatigue-8ad3a54f2eb1) opinion 
Practical pointers for navigating the ‘confusing’ JavaScript ecosystem.
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[TinyTyper: A Tiny Library for Creating A Typing Effect On Specified Text Element](https://github.com/lourenc/tinytyper) tools
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[Gatsby: Transform Plain Text Into Dynamic Blogs and Sites using React](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby) tools

[Recordy: Simple Audio Recording in the Browser](https://github.com/scriptify/Recordy) code
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[JSONata: A JSON Query and Transformation Language](https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata) code 
A new way to extract values from JSON documents.

[Fuse.js: Lightweight Fuzzy-Search with Zero Dependencies](https://github.com/krisk/Fuse) code
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[egjs: jQuery-Based UI Interactions, Effects, and Utilities Library](https://naver.github.io/egjs/) code

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With a strong focus on keyboard shortcuts.
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