Understanding Ecmascript 6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers

By Nicholas C. Zakas

Book Overview

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

Whether you're a web developer or a Node.js developer, you'll find Understanding ECMAScript 6 indispensable on your journey from ECMAScript 5 to ECMAScript 6.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593277571
• ISBN13: 9781593277574
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.1"