The Complete Developer

2 MODERN JAVASCRIPT

In Chapter 1, you used basic JavaScript to create a web server with Node.js. Now we’ll take a closer look at the language’s more advanced features and how you can effectively use them to create full-stack web applications.

You’ll sometimes hear the term ES.Next used to refer to new versions of JavaScript. In this book, we use ES.Next as a broad label for modern JavaScript and its concepts. Most runtime environments have implemented the features covered here. Otherwise, you can transpile them with Babel.js, creating backward-compatible JavaScript that emulates the new features for older runtimes.

ES.Next Modules

ES.Next ...