Understand ES2015

ES2015 (also known as ES6) is the most recent version of JavaScript. It was published in June 2015 and is already appearing in Node.js and browsers near you.

This 45-minute introduction for people who have beginning to intermediate knowledge of JavaScript has two learning objectives for 7 new features.

Code literacy: understand what you read

Code fluency: mean what you write and write what you mean

1. let is the new var

2. const

3. literal object shortcuts

4. destructuring

5. import is the new require

6. export

7. arrow functions (lambda functions)

Mark Pedrotti will walk us through small chunks of example code comparing new ES2015 to familiar ES5 and recommend a short list of online learning resources that helped him progress from illiteracy to literacy during the past few months.