This week's JavaScript news, issue 278

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In brief

• AWS Lambda Now Supports Node.js 4.3 newsnode 
  Amazon Web Services
• Node v5.10.0 and v5.10.1 (Stable) Released news
  An npm upgrade resolves a security flaw in authentication tokens. 5.10.1 quickly followed. 
  Node.js Foundation
• React+d3js ES6 - React as a powerful tool for declarative dataviz news
  'You just blew my mind. This is going to save me so much time.' 
  Swizec Teller   Sponsored
• Grunt 1.0.0 Released newstools
  The popular task runner has reached a major 1.0 milestone. 
  Grunt
• Using Lodash as a Collection of Micro-Libraries tutorialopinion 
  Ken Powers
• 4 Types of Memory Leak in Your JavaScript and How to Get Rid of Them tutorial 
  Sebastian Peyrott
• Streaming Template Literals tutorial
  Hacking JavaScript template literals to make composing streams easy. 
  Jake Archibald
• ES6 Succinctly: A Quick Round Up of ES2015 Features tutorial 
  Kamran Ahmed
• Build Your Own Real-Time Chat App in AngularJS tutorial
  Learn to build your own full-featured chat app using AngularJS. Send real-time messages and more in no time. Get started now with these free tutorials and sign up for the newsletter. 
  PubNub.com   Sponsored
• Discussing JS Best Practices video
  An hour long chat with Dr. Axel Rauschmayer and Nicolás Bevacqua. 
  The Web Platform Podcast
• Debugging Techniques with JavaScript video 
  Josh Owens
• Optimizing JavaScript Performance With Firefox Dev Tools video
  Great 6 minute primer. 
  Greg Tatum
• The Transition to React in A Legacy Rails and Angular App story
  The story of transitioning a mature Rails + Angular app towards React. 
  Nick Blumenthal
• JavaScript Module Systems Showdown: CommonJS vs AMD vs ES2015 opinion 
  Sebastian Peyrott
• Best Practices and Style Guidelines for Angular 2 App Development opinion 
  Minko Gechev
• Why You Should Consider React Native For Your Mobile App opinion 
  Clayton Anderson
• Service Worker Toolbox: A Collection of Tools for Building Service Workers tools 
  Google Chrome Team
• Docco: Quick JavaScript Documentation Generation Tool tools 
  David Walsh
• Popper.js: A Library Used to Create 'Poppers' in Web Applications code
  Where ‘poppers’ are things like tooltips and pop-overs. 
  Fez Vrasta
• 10 jQuery Time Picker Plugins code 
  Matt Burnett
• react-dropzone: Simple HTML5 Drag-Drop Zones with React code 
  Andrey Okonetchnikov
• Glio.js: Trigger a Callback when the Pointer Leaves the Viewport code
  In 5 directions, but not all. 
  Luis Vinicius
• Cash: 'Absurdly Small' jQuery Alternative for Modern Browsers code
  A small library for modern browsers that provides jQuery style syntax to wrap modern Vanilla JS features. 
  Ken Wheeler