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ES2020 Features in simple examples

Carlos Caballero on January 03, 2020

In this series, we are going to show the EcmaScript features from 2015 to today. ES2015 aka ES6 ES2016 aka ES7 ES2017 aka ES8 ES2018 aka ES9 ES20...

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Paweł Kowalski • Jan 3 '20

Although many of these features may not be essential for the development of your Web application, they are giving possibilities that could be achieved before with tricks or a lot of verbosity.

Yea, constant legacy worrying and xbrowser issues push me further and further away from the frontend. Nodejs is far more comfortable and user friendly environment than whatever google next patch will bring, safari wont support or client with ie11 will complain ;)

Balaji Saravanan • Apr 4 '20

Why don't you try a transpiler?

Paweł Kowalski • Apr 4 '20

I use transpiler. That doesnt save you from different implementations of features in different browsers.

Calvin Mills • Jan 3 '20

Thanks for taking the time to put this together, great high level summary of some exciting upcoming features!

Carlos Caballero • Jan 3 '20

Thanks Calvin!

I hope to complete the series although ES6 has already been written enough. However, the ideal is to have a place where the news that the standard brings us annually is summarized and updated.