This week's JavaScript news, issue 279

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In brief

• Building Realtime Applications with CycleJS and RxJS tutorial 
  Jack Franklin
• Destructuring and Default Parameters in ES6 tutorial 
  Doug Wade
• ES6 Symbols: What Are They tutorial 
  Paul Shannon
• Very Brief Intro to the Web Cryptography API tutorial
  If you want something far more indepth, enjoy this 2+ hour workshop on YouTube. 
  Tim Taubert
• Future-proof your JavaScript with Rangle.io’s New online course: 'Angular 2 Transitional Architecture’ course
  Master RESTful APIs, ES6, TypeScript more for moving to Angular 2. Attend remotely and take advantage of recorded sessions after completion. 
  RANGLE.IO   Sponsored
• Performance Optimizations for React Apps tutorial
  The key takeaway: “Return false from shouldComponentUpdate as high up in your application as you can.” 
  Alex Reardon
• Understanding The 'prototype' Property in JavaScript tutorial 
  Bytearcher
• Let's Build a Redux Powered React Application tutorial
  A look at why Redux is valuable when building a React application. 
  Robin Orheden
• Using the SoundCloud API with their JavaScript SDK tutorial
  How to build a simple app to list and play a user’s tracks. 
  Mustaghees Butt
• React Native: Building Your First iOS App With JavaScript tutorial
  Part one of a series on building an iOS app with React Native. 
  Nash Vail
• Tracking Unhandled Rejected Promises tutorial 
  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Getting Started with the Twilio Video JavaScript SDK tutorial
  For building multi-person video chat apps. 
  Sam Agnew
• React: 15 Minutes at a Time video
  A new series of tutorial videos. It leans on CodePen and starts from the bare basics. 
  YouTube
• Easier Remote JavaScript Debugging with Vorlon.js video
  A tight 4 minute intro to Vorlon. 
  Etienne Margraff
• Service Workers Replacing AppCache: A Sledgehammer to Crack A Nut opinion 
  Maximiliano Firtman
• Binary Repositories !== Package Management. (Just ask your devs.) tools
  Over 4M developers trust npm to integrate with their workflows. Unblock your team to build amazing things. 
  npm Enterprise   Sponsored
• Starlight: For Embedding Lua on the Web tools
  Enables you to run Lua scripts on a page by placing Lua code directly in script tags. 
  Paul Cuthbertson
• Multi-Window Layout Manager 'Golden Layout' Goes Open Source tools
  A React-powered layout manager for web apps. 
  Wolfram Hempel
• Phenomic: A Static Website Generator That Uses React Components tools 
  Maxime Thirouin
• Polygoat: Make A Function Support Both Promise and Callback Styles code 
  Sonny Piers
• JavaScript Entity Graph: An In-Memory JS Graph Database code
  Super simple, client-side and in-memory only. 
  Brandon Bloom
• InlineTweet.js: Create Tweetable Links From Any Page Text code 
  Ire Aderinokun