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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788620062

Length 298 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

ECMAScript

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Narayan Prusty

MEHUL MOHAN

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

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

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Implementing modules – the old way

Before ES6, JavaScript had never supported modules natively. Developers used other techniques and third-party libraries to implement modules in JavaScript. Using Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE), Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD), CommonJS, and Universal Module Definition (UMD) are various popular ways of implementing modules in ES5. As these ways were not native to JavaScript, they had several problems. Let's take an overview of each of these old ways of implementing modules.

Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE)

We've briefly discussed IIFE functions in earlier chapters. It is basically an anonymous function that is executed automatically...

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MOHAN

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Narayan Prusty

Narayan Prusty

Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.

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