ECMASCRIPT 6by Rob Eisenberg
ECMASCRIPT 6by Rob Eisenberg
• Creator of Caliburn.Micro & Durandal
• Former Angular 2.0 Team Member with Google
• Creator & Project Lead of Aurelia
ROB EISENBERG
Who Am I?
Agenda
• ECMAScript Past
• ECMAScript 6 (ES6)
• ECMAScript Next
ECMASCRIPT PAST
ECMASCRIPT PAST
Timeline
1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007
1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
ES2
ES1 ES3
2009
ES5
ECMASCRIPT 62015
ECMASCRIPT 6
Overview• arrows
• classes
• enhanced object literals
• template strings
• destructuring
• default + rest + spread
• let + const
• iterators + for..of
• generators
• comprehensions
• unicode
• modules
• module loaders
• map + set + weakmap + weakset
• proxies
• symbols
• subclassable built-ins
• promises
• math + number + string + object APIs
• binary and octal literals
• reflect api
• tail calls
http://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es6/
ECMASCRIPT 6
Feature Categories
• Syntax
• Libraries
• Runtime
ECMASCRIPT 6
Variable Declarationslet
const
ECMASCRIPT 6
ModulesExports
Imports
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Classes
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Arrow Functions
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Promises
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Iterators & for..of
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Generators
ECMASCRIPT 6
Overview• arrows
• classes
• enhanced object literals
• template strings
• destructuring
• default + rest + spread
• let + const
• iterators + for..of
• generators
• comprehensions
• unicode
• modules
• module loaders
• map + set + weakmap + weakset
• proxies
• symbols
• subclassable built-ins
• promises
• math + number + string + object APIs
• binary and octal literals
• reflect api
• tail calls
http://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es6/
ECMASCRIPT 6
Transpilers
• http://babeljs.io
• http://github.com/google/traceur-compiler
• http://www.typescriptlang.org
ECMASCRIPT 6
Polyfills
• https://github.com/zloirock/core-js
• https://github.com/paulmillr/es6-shim
• https://github.com/ModuleLoader/es6-module-loader
• https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs
ECMASCRIPT 6
Tools
• http://atom.io/
• http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm
• http://www.sublimetext.com/3
• http://www.visualstudio.com
ECMASCRIPT NEXT
ECMASCRIPT 7
Overview
• New Release Cadence
• Parallel Development
• New Naming Scheme
• ES 2015 (formerly ES6)
• ES 2016 (Formerly ES7)
• New Features
• async/await
• decorators
• Object.observe
• more…
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