Understanding ECMAScript 6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers

Book Description

ECMAScript 6 represents the biggest update to the core of JavaScript in the history of the language. In Understanding ECMAScript 6, expert developer Nicholas C. Zakas provides a complete guide to the object types, syntax, and other exciting changes that ECMAScript 6 brings to JavaScript. Every chapter is packed with example code that works in any JavaScript environment so you’ll be able to see new features in action. You’ll learn:

• How ECMAScript 6 class syntax relates to more familiar JavaScript concepts
• What makes iterators and generators useful
• How arrow functions differ from regular functions
• Ways to store data with sets, maps, and more
• The power of inheritance
• How to improve asynchronous programming with promises
• How modules change the way you organize code

Whether you’re a web developer or a Node.js developer, you’ll find Understanding ECMAScript 6 indispensable on your journey from ECMAScript 5 to ECMAScript 6.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Block Bindings
Chapter 2: Strings and Regular Expressions
Chapter 3: Functions
Chapter 4: Expanded Object Functionality
Chapter 5: Destructuring for Easier Data Access
Chapter 6: Symbols and Symbol Properties
Chapter 7: Sets and Maps
Chapter 8: Iterators and Generators
Chapter 9: Introducing JavaScript Classes
Chapter 10: Improved Array Capabilities
Chapter 11: Promises and Asynchronous Programming
Chapter 12: Proxies and the Reflection API
Chapter 13: Encapsulating Code with Modules
Appendix A: Minor Changes in ECMAScript 6
Appendix B: Understanding ECMAScript 7 (2016)

中文：

书名：了解ECMASIPT 6：面向JavaScript开发人员的权威指南

ECMAScript6代表了该语言历史上对其核心的最大更新。 在理解ECMASIPT 6中，专家开发人员Nicholas C.Zakas提供了有关对象类型、语法和ECMAScript6为JavaScript带来的其他令人兴奋的变化的完整指南。每一章都包含了可以在任何JavaScript环境中运行的示例代码，因此您将能够看到实际运行的新功能。你将会学到：

• ECMAScript 6类语法如何与更熟悉的JavaScript概念相关联
• 迭代器和生成器的有用之处
• 箭头函数与常规函数的区别
• Ways to store data with sets, maps, and more
• 继承的力量
• How to improve asynchronous programming with promises
• 模块如何改变您组织代码的方式

无论您是Web开发人员还是Node.js开发人员，您都会发现 了解ECMASIPT 6 在您从ECMAScript 5到ECMAScript 6的旅程中不可或缺。

目录表

第1章：块绑定
第2章：字符串和正则表达式
Chapter 3: Functions
Chapter 4: Expanded Object Functionality
第5章：为更轻松地访问数据而进行的解构
第6章：符号和符号属性
第7章：集合和映射
Chapter 8: Iterators and Generators
第9章：JavaScript类简介
Chapter 10: Improved Array Capabilities
第11章：承诺和异步编程
Chapter 12: Proxies and the Reflection API
Chapter 13: Encapsulating Code with Modules
附录A：ECMAScript 6中的细微更改
附录B：了解ECMAScript 7(2016)