We’re living through a weird era where there are tons of JavaScript libraries that were meant to be used as <script> tags that expose available globals. AND there are tons of JavaScript libraries that are meant to be used through …
It’s hard to imagine writing production-ready JavaScript without a tool like Babel. It’s been an undisputed game-changer in making modern code accessible to a wide range of users. With this challenge largely out of the way, there’s not much …
There is “futuristic” JavaScript that we can write. “Stage 0” refers to ideas for the JavaScript language that are still proposals. Still, someone might turn that idea into a Babel plugin and it could compile into code that can …
I’ve recently begun doing more research into what’s new in JavaScript, catching up on a lot of the new features and syntax improvements that have been included in ES6 (i.e. ES2015 and later).
You’ve likely heard about and started using …
As Jake Archibald says, they are starting to land! The support landscape is already:
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- Safari 10.1.
- Chrome Canary 60 – behind the Experimental Web Platform flag in
chrome:flags.- Firefox 54 – behind the
dom.moduleScripts.enabledsetting inabout:config.- Edge
When learning to write JavaScript without jQuery, I found posts like this (also on SitePoint) quite helpful to reference. Now we’re going through that again, in a way, with ES6 replacing some of what we used libraries to help with. …
I saw this little web app (live demo) by Das Surma going around the other day. It’s funny, but it’s also a really compelling demo app for a bunch of modern technologies. I’m sure that’s the whole point …
Turn your ES5 code into readable ES6 (sugar-syntax). It does the opposite of what Babel does.
David Walsh has a post on it. I’m interested, as I’m still working on my muscle memory for ES6. Even the simple …
The Template Literal, introduced in ES6, is a new way to create a string. With it comes new features that allow us more control over dynamic strings in our programs. Gone will be the days of long string concatenation!
To …
While support for ES6 is always increasing, we can’t always assume that users will be using a browser that supports all its features. So, in order to utilize ES6 features now and make sure we won’t run into cross-browser compatibility …
Like a lot of other developers, I’m working through my continued education learning what I can about ES6. One of the ways I’m doing this is to attend workshops by smart people. I went to Kyle Simpson’s ES6: The Good …
