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Leveling up to ES6

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Javascript Courses

Course Description

Overview

Level up your javascript knowledge with the latest features provided in ES6

What you'll learn:
  • Know what all the new ES6 features include
  • Be able to implement and use the ES6 features
  • Understand when these particular ES6 features should be used
  • Understand why these ES6 features help you write cleaner and concise code

Hey there! I'm Cody Seibert, and welcome to my courseLeveling up to ES6!

Why you should learn ES6

ES6 is a feature set provided on top of the javascript library to provide developers with a collection of awesome new features. ES6 will make your codeclean andconcise, and it will make your life easier as a developer.It also has additional functions and features that were not even possible in prior versions of javascript. Amajority of the latestbrowsers now support most, but not all, of the ES6 features. Keep that in mind since most web applications are compiled using Babel.js to provide support for all browsers and older version of browsers.

A majority of the latestlibrariesand frameworks are now being written in ES6, so you don't want to get left behind.

Overview

In this course, we are going to overview a majority of the latestfeatures provided in ES6. The strategy I use to introduce these ES6 features is by first (when applicable)showing you how you might have used similar approaches in ES5 and then refactoring the code to resemble ES6. I'll explain why andwhenyou should be using these features. After finishing this course, you will be great at using these new ES6 features in your day to day programming endeavors.

What you will learn:

You will learn how, when, and why to use a majority of the latest ES6 features after completing this course. Some of the features including:

  • const - to declare constant variables
  • let - block scoped enabled variables
  • block scoping - now your blocks can have variables and functionsscoped onto them
  • arrow functions - simplify your code and prevent typical issues related to lexical this in javascript
  • generators - an awesome new way to write iteratablecode
  • classes - no more having to use some complicated prototype and function hackery to create classes
  • Map - an easier to use data structure than just using objects or arrays to create maps
  • Set - an easier to use data structure for keeping track of a set of entries
  • Promises - an awesome alternative to using callbacks
  • Async / Await - yet a better solution for writing synchronous code instead of callbacks and promises
  • string interpolation - your strings will now be beautiful
  • spread operator - an awesome helper function for concat
  • rest operator - a cool operator for passing arguments to and from functions
  • ANDMORE....

Who this course it for:

This course is for students who already have a decent understanding of programming and using javascript. If all of the following apply to you, I recommend this course:

  • you already havea decent understand of how to use javascript and would consider yourself an intermediate javascript programmer
  • you should alreadyunderstand a majority of javascript ES5 features such as functions, objects, prototypical inheritance, variables, hoisting, loops, arrays, strings, etc.
  • you already know howto use a code editor or website such as jsbin or codepento play around withES6 yourself

Who this course is NOTfor:

This course is NOTa complete beginners guide to learn programming in ES6.

If any of the following are true for you, I'd suggest taking some time to increase your skillset before returning to take this course:

  • unaware of how to install and usenode and npm
  • unaware of how to install and use a text editor (in this course we use VS Code)
  • consider yourself a complete beginner at programming
  • consider yourself a beginner at javascript
  • the pace ofthe free preview videos is too fast for your learning style

This isn't to say you shouldn't consider my course sinceI cover a lot of good information, but just be aware you might feel lost without having some previous knowledge already.

Additional Information:

A majority of this course will be taught via VSCode with the Quokka plugin, both of which Iwill cover how to setup. We will also be using the latest version of Node 8.x to run our ES6 examples.


Taught by

Cody Seibert

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