ecma-news

ECMAScript new features (ES6, ES7, ES8).

This projects is intended for learning purposes, and was created for a meetup at the office. Feel free to check it out, modify it, etc.

Getting started

Download, or clone this project:

git clone https://github.com/carloluis/ecma-news.git

Then, run index.js:

node index.js

Prerequisites

You need a Node.js engine with version 8, or above.

ECMAScript features

ES6

• default parameters
• enhanced object literals
• arrow functions
• promises
• template literals
• new data structures
• block scoped constructs
• generators
• proxy objects
• classes
• modules

Top ten features here

ES7

• exponential operator
• array includes

ES8

• async / await
• new object functions
• string paddings
• function args with trailing commas
• shared memory and atomics
  • shared memory: we can allow multiple threads read and write the same data with the new SharedArrayBuffer constructor
  • Atomics: We can use the Atomics object to make sure nothing that is being written or read will be interrupted in the middle of the process. So the operations are finished before a the next one starts.

More

I have intentions to update this repo with the rest of ecmascript features...

License

Licensed under the MIT License © 2017.

See LICENSE for more information.