October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
40 pages
48m
English
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Chapter 1. You Can’t Afford to Avoid ES6
ECMAScript 6 offers an extensive list of new features, so many that it may feel overwhelming. Each feature was carefully considered, discussed at length, and chosen to become a part of ECMAScript. Now it’s up to us to apply these new features, bringing ES6 to our products and our customers.
How can we take these new concepts and features and put them into the brains of our developers?
How can we take these modern concepts and inject them into our current projects?
This isn’t easy. The cost of integrating ES6 into your teams and your projects may appear too high.
You may feel that you can’t afford to implement these features in your world. I am here to tell you that you can’t afford not to. Consider yourself warned: the content that follows is highly provocative.
Note
While the main audience of the book is composed of development managers, I am sure that a handful of developers will find themselves here as well. If you are a developer, welcome! If you are in development management, I hope you enjoy the ride. This book focuses on JavaScript from the point of view of the browser. Server-side JavaScript environments, such as node.js or Rhino, are not covered. (It will likely be easier to integrate ES6 into those projects, though, as you have more control of the server environment.)
Throughout the remainder of this chapter, we will discuss some of the reasons to consider integrating ES6 into your current and future projects. You will also see that in ...
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