This course explores why the changes are happening and what is currently or soon to be supported. We explore Traceur as a means to use unsupported features now, even on browsers and devices which don’t yet understand ECMAScript 6.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

Web developers who are confident with HTML and have some JavaScript experience.

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE

A very good grasp of HTML5 and a good understanding of JavaScript is required to get the most from this course. Exposure to Object Oriented programming techniques would be an advantage.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

In this course, you will learn about the new version of JavaScript known as ES6, along with current and imminent device and browser support for this standard, and how to code with ES6 right now, and use Google Traceur to transcode for compatibility with older devices and browsers.

Introducing Modern JavaScript

Controlling access, type, and mutability
Functions, scope, namespaces and closure
Object serialization
Overview of AJAX principles
JavaScript security
Client-Side Event handling
Client Side data persistence

Current and Imminent Support

Features which are already supported in some browsers and devices
Forthcoming built-in support
Polyfill
Legacy: where support will never happen

ECMAScript 6 objects, properties and methods

Classes, subclasses and constructors: Object-Oriented techniques in JavaScript

JavaScript Design Patterns (focussing on ECMAScript 6)

Modular JavaScript principles
MVC, MVVM, Service, Factory etc.

Building the User Experience: overview of modern JavaScript frameworks

The jQuery family
Angular, Bootstrap and Dart
AtScript and TypeScript
Other JavaScript frameworks and libraries

ECME-262 6th Edition

The 2015 ECMAScript Language Specification
Already some support in some browsers/devices
Enable Harmony in Chrome

Need for software development capabilities

Components and Modules
Single-threaded ‘blocking’ problem
Reduce use of ‘function’ keyword

Traceur

JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today converter
Converting offline
Online Read-Eval-Print-Loop for exploring ES6
Impact on performance

Sugar Syntax

Make a language easier to understand and more readable
Some features of ES6 are not really new
All methods are still added to the prototype

ES6 Language Features

Number and Math Improvements
Maps, Sets and Weak Maps
Iterators and for of loops
Object Literal Enhancements
Arrow Functions
Let and Const for Block Scoped Binding
Default and Rest Parameters
Template Literals
Promises

Classes

Property Method Assignment
Object Initializer Shorthand
Class definition and name
Class prototype
Instance property and class property

Shadow DOM

Shadow root and shadow host

Module syntax

Named exports and Default exports
Importing modules

ECMAScript language types

Undefined, Null, Boolean, String, Symbol, Number, and Object

Testing

Overview of current JavaScript testing

NodeJS (optional content)

Configuring Node for non-browser JavaScript
Node packages
Running script

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