Practical ES6

by Aurelio De Rosa, Kyle Pennell, Nilson Jacques

There's no doubt that the JavaScript ecosystem changes fast. Not only are new tools and frameworks introduced and developed at a rapid rate, the language itself has undergone big changes with the introduction of ES2015 (aka ES6). Understandably, many articles have been written complaining about how difficult it is to learn modern JavaScript development these days. We're aiming to minimize that confusion with this set of books on modern JavaScript.
This book provides an introduction to many of the powerful new JavaScript language features that were introduced in ECMAScript 2015, as well as features introduced in ECMAScript 2016 and 2017. It also takes a look at the features planned for ECMAScript 2018 in this rapidly evolving language. It contains:

This book is for all front-end developers who wish to improve their JavaScript skills. You'll need to be familiar with HTML and CSS and have a reasonable level of understanding of JavaScript in order to follow the discussion.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 31, 2018

Reviews

[R7835 · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a collection of articles from Sitepoint made into a book. Some editing would have been nice here and there, particularly when certain topics repeated covered material without acknowledging it.

Some good information given in a relatively breezy way and avoids getting too in-depth.