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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

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  • Fork This Gist
  • Respond in your forked gist with answers to the following questions
    • What is ES6? It's the 6th release of ECMAScript, also called Harmony, and the "proper" name for Javascript.
    • What is Transpilation and how does it relate to ES6? A transpiler is a tool that reads a source code in one language and converts it to another language. They're important because not all Javascript rooted languages are compatible with every browser, so a transpiler would convert ES6 to a version of javascript that the browser can work with
    • 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 Constants This was the first link that came up when I googled "ES6 changes from ES5", but I found it super interesting/impressive! The ES5 version of creating a constant was so verbose! You had to say that it was a global variable, that it was not writable and not configurable. And now you just use const and it's a Constant. Looks like a good change to increase efficiency.

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