ES6 with Josh Bielick

You've probably seen the terms "ES6, "JavaScript Next", "Harmony", or "ES2015" all over the web by now -- and rightly so, because the newest draft standard of ECMAScript (ES6) is slated to become a specification in "mid 2015". The best part of that news is that many of the features and constructs are available today either in the form of ES6-to-ES5 transpilers, third-party module polyfills or even native implementation previews.

Join us for an overview of some important and life(read: sanity)-changing features of ES6 that may become an integral and enjoyable part of the code you write this year. Please feel more than welcome to bring questions and curiosities about the upcoming spec that may be helpful for you and those around you.

A big thanks to Bronto for hosting and providing pizza and beer.

Time permitting, topics will include (in no particular order): - Arrows

• Classes
• Enhanced object literals
• Template strings
• destructuring
• defaults, rests, and spreads
• let and const
• Maps and Sets
• Weakmaps and Weaksets
• Proxies
• Symbols
• changes in Math, Number, String and Object objects
• Reflect API