• Year-end Review: This is the final issue of 2016, looking back at popular JavaScript news and links. With 108,887 subscribers, they thank everyone for the support and wish a happy holiday season.
• January Post by Eric Elliott: He started a series on common job interview questions about closures, stating that not being able to answer means being a junior developer.
• Martin Fowler's Read: Reimplements an example from "Refactoring" in ES6 and shows four refactoring approaches.
• Drew Powers' Look: At approaches and best practices for error handling in JavaScript, including async code errors.
• Kendo UI Sponsor: Delivers everything for building modern web apps under tight deadlines with 70+ UI components.
• Yarn's Popularity: Only a few months old and became a new way to manage npm packages.
• Malte Ubl's Module Bundler: With simple code splitting support and using Browserify, Babel, and Closure Compiler.
• Jason Miller's React Recreate: Tried to recreate React's core functionality with minimal code and ES6 support.
• Dr. Axel Rauschmayer's Tricks: Showed off ES6 features like enforcing mandatory function arguments and value swapping.
• Sacha Greif's Survey: Detailed results from the 'State of JavaScript' survey with over 9,000 participants.
• Raymond Camden's Tips: Offers tips, techniques, and tools to improve JavaScript development skills.
• Jobs: Web Platform Architect at Twitch (SF), Senior Software Engineer at Zalando Tech in Berlin, and Try Hired.
• In Brief Tutorials: Functional Programming for JavaScript People, JavaScript Testing: Unit vs Functional vs Integration Tests, ES6 Module Loading: More Complicated Than You Think, Intro to Immutable.js and Functional Programming Concepts, 10 Lodash Features You Can Replace with ES6, Build a Fullstack Angular2 + Express.js app with User Management in 10 Minutes.
• Opinions: The Cost of Small Modules, Angular 2 vs React: The Ultimate Dance Off, Choosing Vanilla JavaScript in 2016.
• Videos and Tools: The Future of ES6 video by TC39's Jafar Husain, optimize-js tools by Nolan Lawson, Create React App tools by Facebook, scientist.js tools by Ziya Sarikaya, Integrated Continuous Testing Tool for JavaScript by Wallaby.js, Viewer.js code by Fengyuan Chen, Draft.js code by Facebook, Clarity code by VMware, AnyPixel.js code by Google Creative Lab, lightgallery.js code by Sachin Nchoolur.