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Practical ES6
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Practical ES6

by Aurelio De Rosa, Kyle Pennell, Nilson Jacques, Craig Buckler, Byron Houwens, Jeff Mott, Sandeep Panda, Graham Cox, Ludovico Fischer, James Wright
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
2h 19m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 17: ES6 (ES2015) and Beyond: Understanding JavaScript Versioning

by James Wright

As programming languages go, JavaScript’s development has been positively frantic in the last few years. With each year now seeing a new release of the ECMAScript specification, it’s easy to get confused about JavaScript versioning, which version supports what, and how you can future-proof your code.

To better understand the how and why behind this seemingly constant stream of new features, let’s take a brief look at the history of the JavaScript and JavaScript versioning, and find out why the standardization process is so important.

The Early History of JavaScript Versioning

The prototype of JavaScript was written in just ten days in May 1995 by Brendan ...

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