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Johannes Thönes talks to Axel Rauschmayer about JavaScript and ECMAScript 6. They talk about the origin and version history. Then they dive into key JavaScript concepts and explain the features coming into the language with ECMAScript 6.

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