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Using New Features in JavaScript

ES2015 is being adopted by browsers everywhere.

October 01, 2017

JavaScript is a constantly growing language and is a lot of functionality that is built into other languages that we take for granted. For instance, why has it taken so long to iterate over an object? The Object.entries() syntax is still in the proposal stages for ES2017 along with many other features that have been in languages for years. Some of the highlights of this new version include:

+Classes +Array Helpers +Object Destructuring +Arrow Functions +Generators

There is a lot of new ways to improve and clean up your JavaScript codebase, so these are the ways that helped me understand these concepts.

Classes

Array Helpers

Destructuring

Arrow Functions

Generators

author

Pat Emery Software Developer

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