ES2015 (also known as ES6), the version of the JavaScript specification ratified in 2015, is a huge improvement to the language’s expressive power thanks to features like classes, for-of, destructuring, spread, tail calls, and much more. But powerful lang... (more…)

Ok, I'm pretty sure we all know `ES6`,`ES7` and `/ES[0-9]{1,3}/g` by now, it's pretty much the industry standard to adopt the tomorrow's technology, today. (more…)

In this article we’ll take a look at regular expressions in and after ES6. There’s a couple of regular expressions flags which were introduced in ES6: the /y or sticky flag, and the /u or Unicode flag. Then we’ll discuss five proposals which are making th... (more…)

Last night I expressed some frustration about the state and future of concurrency in JavaScript. I ended up having a little bit of back and forth with David Herman and he pointed out that ES6 Generators can express Go and core.async's flavor of CSP. Now I... (more…)

JavaScript ES6 introduces a new data structure, called maps. Maps are designed as an alternative to using Object literals for storing key… (more…)