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Learn ECMAScript

You're reading from   Learn ECMAScript Discover the latest ECMAScript features in order to write cleaner code and learn the fundamentals of JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788620062
Length 298 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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MEHUL MOHAN MEHUL MOHAN
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with ECMAScript FREE CHAPTER 2. Knowing Your Library 3. Using Iterators 4. Asynchronous Programming 5. Modular Programming 6. Implementing the Reflect API 7. Proxies 8. Classes 9. JavaScript on the Web 10. Storage APIs in JavaScript 11. Web and Service Workers 12. Shared Memory and Atomics 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing modules – the new way

There is a new way to import and export modules in JavaScript, that is the official module system. Since it is supported natively by the language, it can be referred to as the standard JavaScript module system. You should consider using the official module system in practice because it's native and thus optimized for speed and performance.

Importing/exporting modules

Let's say you're coding a module file and now you're ready to import it into your main file. How will you export it using the official module system? Here's how:

// module.js

const takeSquareAndAdd2 = num => {
return num*num + 2;
}

export { takeSquareAndAdd2 }; // #1
export const someVariable...
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