Chapter 3: New Array.* and Array.prototype.* Methods
by Aurelio De Rosa
In this chapter we’ll discuss most of the new methods available in ES6 that work with the Array type, using Array.* and Array.prototype.*.
When discussing them, I’ll write Array.method() when I describe a “class” method and Array.prototype.method() when I outline an “instance” method.
We’ll also see some example uses and mention several polyfills for them. If you need a polyfill-them-all library, you can use es6-shim by Paul Miller.
Array.from()
The first method I want to mention is Array.from(). It creates a new Array instance from an array-like or an iterable object. This method can be used to solve an old problem with array-like objects that most developers solve using ...
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