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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows you to use JavaScript to develop server-side web applications. This short guide will help you develop applications using JavaScript and Node.js, leverage your existing programming skills from .NET or Java, and make the most of these other platforms through understanding the Node.js programming model. You will learn how to build web applications and APIs in Node, discover packages in the Node.js ecosystem, test and deploy your Node.js code, and more. Finally, you will discover how to integrate Node.js and .NET code.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Node.js for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing ECMAScript 2016


As mentioned earlier in this chapter, ECMAScript 2016 is a small release with only a couple of new features. These are an includes method for arrays and the exponentation operator **.

You can write myArray.includes(value) instead of myArray.indexOf(value) !== -1. Note that these expressions are not quite equivalent. You can use includes to check for the value NaN within an array, which you can't do with indexOf.

The exponential operator allows you to rewrite Math.pow(coefficient, exponent) as coefficient ** exponent.

You can also combine it with an assignment, as in myVariable **= 2.