What's ECMAScript 6 Good For?
summary
Covers concrete ES6 features and how to try them now: new class syntax with extends and super, default parameters and rest arguments, destructuring assignment, and the new for...of iterator that returns values not indices. Shows module import/export plus a proposed loader API. Mentions tools that transpile and demo ES6 today—Grunt Tracer and an in‑browser console called Continue—and flags proxies as a controversial, changing feature; recommends transpiling now but warns the spec is still moving.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00ES6 introduction
- 1:12Why ES6 matters
- 2:37ES6 classes
- 5:27Default parameters
- 7:55Destructuring
- 11:27For-of loops
- 14:01ES6 modules
- 17:12Fat arrow functions
- 18:41Proxies and controversial changes
- 19:25Adopting ES6 now
