New features in Javascript ES6

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This page lists some of the new features of the latest version of Javascript as of this writing in 2016.  It is the 6th edition of the ECMAScript Standard (known as ES6 or ECMAScript 2015).  It links to tutorials with examples running in the latest version Chrome because it seems that this browser has good support for ES6 based on this compatibility table.

New features in ES6:

• let keyword
• const keyword
• Default function parameters
• Spread operator
• Rest parameters
• Template strings
• Arrow functions
• for-of construct
• destructuring
• class
• maps
• sets
• ES6 Modules

 

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