FOREWORD
ECMAScript 6 has taken the world by storm. It came long after people stopped waiting for it, and then it spread faster than most people could learn it. Everybody has a different story about it. Here is mine.
In 2013, I worked at a startup that pivoted from iOS to the web. It was before I co-created Redux or participated in the JavaScript open source community. At the time, I was struggling to learn web development, and I was terrified. My team had to build a web version of our product from scratch in just a few months. In JavaScript.
At first I scoffed at the idea of writing something large in JavaScript. But a new team member persuaded me that JavaScript was not a toy language. I agreed to give it a try. I set my prejudices aside, opened ...
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