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Advanced JavaScript
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Advanced JavaScript

by Zachary Shute
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
330 pages
6h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1

Introducing ECMAScript 6

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Define the different scopes in JavaScript and characterize variable declaration
  • Simplify JavaScript object definitions
  • Destructure objects and arrays, and build classes and modules
  • Transpile JavaScript for compatibility
  • Compose iterators and generators

In this chapter, you'll be learning how to use the new syntax and concepts of ECMAScript.

Introduction

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language designed to allow the programmer to build interactive web applications. JavaScript is one of the backbones of web development, along with HTML and CSS. Nearly every major website, including Google, Facebook, and Netflix, ...

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ISBN: 9781789800104Supplemental Content