ES6 in Motion

Table of contents

1. Welcome
   1. Welcome
   2. History and Feature Compatibility
2. Arrow Functions
   1. Introducing Arrow Functions
   2. What Do These Arrow Functions Do
   3. Arrow Functions versus Function Declarations
   4. Computing Tax With A For Loop
   5. Array Mapping With Arrow Functions
   6. Caveat Object Literals From Arrow Functions
   7. Concision Key Takeaways
3. This
   1. The Magic Of This
   2. The Secret This Tunnel
   3. Wishing This Were Lexically Bound
   4. The Self Workaround To This
   5. Understanding This Binding
   6. Fixing This With Bind
   7. Lexical This With Arrow Functions
   8. Caveat With Bind Call and Apply
   9. Lexical Takeaways
4. Block Scoping
   1. Where Do You Prefer To Declare Variables
   2. Block vs. Function Scope
   3. Block Scoping With Let
   4. Inadvertent Clobbering
   5. Global Variable Pollution
   6. No More IIFEs
   7. Why You Should Declare Closer To Usage Now
   8. Const
   9. Takeaways
5. Strings
   1. String Enhancements
   2. Cloning and Opening The WebStorm Project
   3. Why WebStorm Helps
   4. Template Literals
   5. Complex Expressions in Template Literals
   6. Multiline Template Literals
   7. Getting Functional and Injecting Multiline Expressions
   8. Tagged Template Literals
   9. String.raw
   10. Takeaways
6. Destructuring
   1. Destructuring
   2. Object Literal Enhancements
   3. From Literals To Patterns
   4. Visualising Object Literals and Patterns
   5. Array Patterns
   6. The Key Is The Structure Of The Pattern
   7. Pattern Mismatches
   8. Destructuring Object Properties with a Custom Variable Name
   9. Pattern Matching with Assignments
   10. The Rest Parameter
   11. Pattern Matching with Function Parameters
   12. Safe Failures Provide Optional Matching
   13. Don't Get Crazy
   14. The Pattern Structure Is The Key
   15. Takeaway Challenge
7. Defaults
   1. Patterns Everywhere
   2. Default Parameter Values
   3. For Of Loops and Array Prototype Entries
   4. Default Values in Destructuring
   5. Default Values with Arrow Function Parameters
   6. Destructuring Defaults With Arrow Functions
   7. Default Referring To Other Parameters And Variables
   8. Scope For Defaults
   9. Takeaways
8. Iteration
   1. Iteration
   2. Why Iterables
   3. Custom Query Iteration
   4. Refactoring To The Iterator Protocol
   5. Refactor To Multiple Iterators
   6. Refactor To The Iterable Protocol
   7. The For Of Loop Works On Iterables
   8. The Rest Operator Works on Iterables
   9. The Spread Operator Works On Iterables
   10. Cleaning Up Iterables with Return
   11. Takeaways
9. Generators
   1. Generators
   2. Generating Positive numbers with an Iterator
   3. Generators Simplify Iterators
   4. Generator Objects are Iterable and Iterators
   5. Debugging A Generator
   6. A Generator Is Like A Series Of Functions
   7. A Days Generator
   8. Refactoring The Person Query To A Generator
   9. Takeaways
10. Promises
    1. Promises
    2. Callbacks
    3. Introducing Promises and Fetch
    4. Chaining Serial Async Operations Without Nesting
    5. Concise Async With Arrow Functions
    6. Catching Errors
    7. Understanding Error Fall Through
    8. Recovering From Async Errors
    9. Catching Thrown Errors Too
    10. Consuming Versus Producing Promises
    11. Callbacks with setTimeout
    12. Postulating A Promise-Based Delay
    13. Wrapping setTimeout with a Promise
11. Generator Control Flow
    1. Generators Meet Promises
    2. Passing Data When Resuming Generators
    3. Yielding Promises
    4. Generator Control Flow With Delay
    5. Takeaways
12. Classes
    1. Syntactic Sugar
    2. HtmlTags
    3. Instance Methods
    4. Prototype Methods
    5. Classes
    6. WebStorm Refactor Constructor Function to Class
    7. Class Declarations Are Not Hoisted
    8. Static Methods
    9. Inheritance and Prototypes
    10. Prototype Chains
    11. Extending Classes
13. Modules
    1. Module Syntax
    2. The Need For Modules
    3. ES6 Module Syntax
    4. Module Loading
    5. jspm init
    6. Loading Modules With SystemJS
    7. Resources For Further Learning