This week's JavaScript news, issue 286

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In brief

• Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016 (Amsterdam, NL) news
  Two days of talks, labs and access to the Chrome engineers to discuss the future of the web. 
  Google
• The JS Kongress (Munich, November) Program Schedule Now Online news 
  JS Kongress
• The npm Registry Gets 'Hooks' newsnode
  Get notifications of npm registry events. 
  The npm Blog
• New Tutorial: How to Write Secure REST APIs for Mobile Apps tutorial
  Learn everything you need to build a RESTful service for use in your mobile app. You'll finish with a functioning API built in Node.js, protected by OAuth 2.0, and ready to plug into an iOS or Android app. 
  Stormpath   Sponsored
• Make a Simple JavaScript Slideshow without jQuery tutorial 
  Yaphi Berhanu
• The Complete(ish) Guide to Upgrading to Gulp 4 tutorial 
  Joe Zimmerman
• Quick Angular 2 Hosting with the Angular CLI and GitHub Pages tutorial
  The steps to set up an Angular 2 application locally using the Angular CLI and then deploy it to GitHub Pages as a single page app. 
  TJ VanToll
• Smooth Page Scroll in 5 Lines of JavaScript tutorial 
  Dudley Storey
• Getting Started with TDD in React tutorial 
  Dave Ceddia
• An Angular 2 Introduction to Webpack tutorial 
  Google
• Build A Simple Mobile App With NativeScript And Angular 2 tutorial 
  Nic Raboy
• JavaScriptCore CSI: A Crash Site Investigation Story story
  A very technical, in-depth post on debugging a JavaScriptCore issue. 
  Mark Lam
• Stop Bringing Strong Typing to JavaScript opinion 
  James Wright
• Using React and D3 Together to Build Visualization Components video 
  Swizec Teller
• When was the last time you found a tool that triples your productivity? tools
  Instant feedback from your tests and realtime code coverage right in your editor, no context switching. 
  Wallaby.js   Sponsored
• gDoc.js: Use Google Sheets as a CMS code
  Pull data from a Google spreadsheet into a page on the fly. 
  Jade Allen Cook
• microlight.js: A Tiny Code Highlighting Library code
  Takes an interesting approach of not having language specific rules. 
  
• Inferno: A Fast, React-like Library for Building Modern UIs code
  An isomorphic library for high-performance UIs. 
  Dominic Gannaway
• WebGazer.js: Scalable Webcam EyeTracking Using User Interactions code 
  Brown HCI Group
• An Experimental Twitter Desktop Client Written with JSGtk+ code
  JSGtk is a JavaScript binding for GNOME. For Linux and OS X. 
  Andrea Giammarchi