--- title: "#360: How Redux Can Make You A Better Developer" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 360 published_at: "2017-11-10" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/360" --- #360: How Redux Can Make You A Better Developer This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/360) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 360 — November 10, 2017 We just noticed that JavaScript Weekly is 7 years old this week! Thanks to all of you for your ongoing support. If you want to see how far JavaScript has come, [check out the first issue](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/1) for a nostalgia trip (although be warned, most of the links no longer work) :-) _Your editor,_ _Peter Cooper_[How the V8 Team is Using a New 'Web Tooling Benchmark'](https://v8project.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/web-tooling-benchmark.html)You know when hardware reviewers benchmark against Photoshop and games? This is a look at a new, similarly practical performance test for JavaScript engines. Benedikt Meurer [A Summary of New Angular 5 Features](https://alligator.io/angular/angular-5)A look at some of the most important changes to Angular, as well as pointers on upgrading. Alligator [Error Logging in Angular 2 with `ErrorHandler`](https://rollbar.com/blog/client-side-angular-error-handling/?utm_source=jsweekly&utm_campaign=jsweekly&utm_medium=email-nl)Error handling is one of those things no one wants to deal with, well in Angular you can create a global handler and never have to worry again. Here's how. ROLLBARSponsor [js2flowchart: Create SVG Flowcharts from JavaScript Code](https://github.com/Bogdan-Lyashenko/js-code-to-svg-flowchart)Turns your code into flowcharts in a variety of ways so you can more easily analyze or explain what’s going on. 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