This week's JavaScript news, issue 291

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In brief

• Safari Technology Preview Release 8 Achieves 100% ES6 Support news 
  Apple
• webpack is Growing; Gets A Core Team; Seeks Extra Maintainers news 
  Tobias Koppers
• Part how-to, part show tell, totally amazing: npm’s first conference news
  npm’s not just Node. Meet cool folks building amazing things with the world’s largest software repository… 
  npmCamp: July 30 in Oakland   Sponsored
• Writing an Angular 2 App in ES5 (In Case You Have To) tutorial 
  Lukas Ruebbelke
• Build a Hybrid Mobile App with Angular 2 and Ionic 2 tutorial
  A very thorough walkthrough. 
  Ganga Chris
• ES5 Objects Vs. ES6 Maps: Differences and Similarities tutorial 
  Kurt Cagle
• Using the MVC Pattern For Building Three.js Applications tutorial 
  Lucas Majerowicz
• Beyond 'Console' Debugging Tricks tutorial 
  Daniel Reis
• Borrowing Methods in JavaScript tutorial 
  David Shariff
• A Primer on the React Ecosystem tutorial 
  Nitin Punjabi
• Composable SQL in JavaScript tutorial
  A look at using SQL queries in conjunction with Functors to create reusable querying systems. 
  Gal Schlezinger
• ES6 for Humans: A Simple, Code-Driven Overview tutorial 
  Deepak Grover
• 7 Surprising JavaScript 'Features' tutorial
  A golden oldie worth revisiting. 
  Luke Page
• 3 Splendid JavaScript Debugging Tips video 
  BritishCode
• Racket: Generators, Best Practices + Starting App for Developing Universal React/Redux Webapps toolsnode 
  Mohamad Mohebifar
• 10 jQuery File Upload Plugins tools 
  Julian Motz
• ZingTouch: A JavaScript Mobile Gesture Detection Library code 
  ZingChart
• Iterall: Minimal No-Dependency Utilities for using Iterables in JS Environments code 
  Lee Byron
• RBush: High-Perf R-Tree-Based 2D Spatial Index for Points and Rectangles code 
  Vladimir Agafonkin
• Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator demo
  A beautiful piece of work that leans on Tone.js. 
  CodePen
• DreamFactory 2.2 released, includes important API changes 
  Our API automation platform keeps getting better with new streamlined commercial packages. 
  DreamFactory   Sponsored