In this blog post, I show six tricks enabled by new ES6 features. At the end of each section, I point to related material in my book “ Expl...

Default arguments in ES6, put simply: I'm a huge fan. (more…)

Babel is a JavaScript compiler. That means with Babel, you can write syntax in the latest version of JavaScript, and it will transform the code to be browser-compatible JavaScript. This is awesome, because it is good to learn the most up to date version, ... (more…)

A couple of weeks ago, Node.js released its latest LTS: version 6.9.0. I realized this was the case because one of our services broke. It used the nodejs:lts image and got upgraded by mistake....

A few months ago I wrote an article describing the various differences that exist between Node.js CommonJS modules and the new ES6 Module… (more…)