As a JavaScript developer, you're probably familiar with the older syntax of JavaScript called ECMAScript 5, or ES5, which was released in 2009. And even though this version is still used in many projects, there are newer versions of JavaScript available. Since 2015, a new version of JavaScript is released every year with new features. The release of ES6, also called ES2015, announced some of the biggest changes in the web development world.
It introduced many new features and some differences in syntax compared to its previous versions. We can now use features such as class declarations, import and export, arrow functions instead of regular functions, template literals, new variable keywords, and many, many more things that you'll learn about in this course. ES6 will make writing JavaScript a lot more easy and fun, and I'm really excited to show you all the latest features and how to use them with real-life examples. In order to show my examples, I use a website called Code Sandbox.
js, and all the necessary files and configuration in order to run your code are created. There is no need to set up your own environment. It handles everything for you. Perfect.
So let's get started. As a JavaScript developer, you're probably familiar with the older syntax of JavaScript called ECMAScript 5, or ES5, which was released in 2009. And even though this version is still used in many projects, there are newer versions of JavaScript available. Since 2015, a new version of JavaScript is released every year with new features.
The release of ES6, also called ES2015, announced some of the biggest changes in the web development world. It introduced many new features and some differences in syntax compared to its previous versions. We can now use features such as class declarations, import and export, arrow functions instead of regular functions, template literals, new variable keywords, and many, many more things that you'll learn about in this course. ES6 will make writing JavaScript a lot more easy and fun, and I'm really excited to show you all the latest features and how to use them with real-life examples.
In order to show my examples, I use a website called Code Sandbox. js, and all the necessary files and configuration in order to run your code are created. There is no need to set up your own environment. It handles everything for you.
Perfect. So let's get started.