Understanding ECMAScript 6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers 1st Edition

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 sets with, 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.