43: Modern JavaScript with ES6 & ES7

Summary

The world of JavaScript is a large one. AJ O’Neal (@coolAJ86), Podcaster & JavaScript Developer along with Netflix UI Architect & TC-39 Member, Jafar Husain (@jhusain) take us through opinions & facts about the state of the ubiquitous JavaScript language. Modern application development can daunting for developers just coming into web technology & JavaScript. Utilizing the latest & greatest in the language is not as easy as one might think and in some case it may be possible.

Then there are the transpilers & package managers. So many tools to polyfill or shim and features seems like more work than we’d want for a fast production project. Is it worth utilizing the benefits of ES6 & ES7? AJ & Jafar share with us what they think.

Resources

• ES6 Support Table - http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

• ES7 Support Table - http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es7/

• ES Discuss - https://esdiscuss.org/

• Subscribe to the ES Summaries Mailing List - https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss

• Some features explained - https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features

• ESFiddle - http://www.es6fiddle.net/

• One of the best blogs on JavaScript - http://www.2ality.com/

• Using ES6 is io.js - https://iojs.org/en/es6.html

• TC-39 - http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC39-M.htm

• Jafar’s talk on ES7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqMFX91ToLw

• JSJ on ES6 (older but good) - http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/068-jsj-es6-with-aaron-frost

• Adventures in Angular ES6/TypeScript episode -

• http://devchat.tv/adventures-in-angular/041-aia-typescript-with-dan-wahlin

• The Extensible Web Manifesto = https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/

• Jafar’s Ng-Conf Falcor talk -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiO1f6h15c8

• HTML5DevConf : Asyncronous JavaScript at Netflix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uxSu-F5Kj0

• Douglas Crockford - http://javascript.crockford.com/

• daplie.com - https://daplie.com/

• DotNet Rocks 1099 Digging into Javascript 6 with Jafar Husain - http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=1099

• JSJ The Koa Framework with Gerred Dillon and Will Conant - http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/117-jsj-the-koa-framework-with-gerred-dillon-and-will-conant

• Dev Mountain - https://devmounta.in/

Panelists

• Danny Blue - Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

• Erik Isaksen - HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital