ECMAScript 6 represents the biggest update to the core of JavaScript in the history of the language. In Understanding ECMAScript 6, expert developer Nicholas C. Zakas provides a complete guide to the object types, syntax, and other exciting changes that ECMAScript 6 brings to JavaScript. Every chapter is packed with example code that works in any JavaScript environment so you'll be able to see new features in action. You'll learn:
- How ECMAScript 6 class syntax relates to more familiar JavaScript concepts
- What makes iterators and generators useful
- How arrow functions differ from regular functions
- Ways to store data with sets, maps, and more
- The power of inheritance
- How to improve asynchronous programming with promises
- How modules change the way you organize code
