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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

By : MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty
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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

By: MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Learn ECMAScript explores implementation of the latest ECMAScript features to add to your developer toolbox, helping you to progress to an advanced level. Learn to add 1 to a variable andsafely access shared memory data within multiple threads to avoid race conditions. You’ll start the book by building on your existing knowledge of JavaScript, covering performing arithmetic operations, using arrow functions and dealing with closures. Next, you will grasp the most commonly used ECMAScript skills such as reflection, proxies, and classes. Furthermore, you’ll learn modularizing the JS code base, implementing JS on the web and how the modern HTML5 + JS APIs provide power to developers on the web. Finally, you will learn the deeper parts of the language, which include making JavaScript multithreaded with dedicated and shared web workers, memory management, shared memory, and atomics. It doesn’t end here; this book is 100% compatible with ES.Next. By the end of this book, you'll have fully mastered all the features of ECMAScript!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


It wouldn't be wrong to say that this is now my favorite chapter, with Chapter 4, Asynchronous Programming, sliding down to number two. This technology is raw, fresh, and waiting to be explored.

We learned a lot of new stuff about ES2017 in this chapter, which, in the near future, will be the base of multi-threaded programs written in JavaScript. Well, that is it! You're now a good developer who knows a lot about ES2017 (that is, ES8) and a lot more about future tech, as well. Use your powers to make this world a good place!