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ES6 Research

Throughout the module (and your journey to Google enlightenment while working on IdeaBox2.0) you may notice a few different ways that JavaScript code is being written.

That might have something to do with something called ES6 and ES5

Deliverable

  • Respond in your forked gist with answers to the following questions
    • What is ES6?
      • ES6 is the newest version of ECMAScript, which is the proper name for JavaScript.
    • What is Transpilation and how does it relate to ES6?
      • A source-to-source compiler. A transpiler would allow you to write in ES6 and have the code compiled to ES5, in cases where ES6 might not yet be supported.
    • Looking at the ES6 Features link below, discuss one update from ES5 and if it seems useful/superfluous
    • You can use the resources below or your own Google-fu
      • I think both the arrow functions and the template strings are useful improvements.

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