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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

Fork this gist and answer the following questions:

  • What is ES6?
  • ECMAScript is another term for JavaScipt, and ES6 is the latest release. ES6 added new features including more iterators and for/of loops.
  • What is Transpilation and how does it relate to ES6?
  • Transpiling means changing code to another language or version. Some older browsers may require developers to transpile ES6 to ES5. This can be done with Babel.
  • Looking at the ES6 Features link below, discuss one update from ES5 and if it seems useful/superfluous,
    • ES6 introduced classes, which is syntactic sugar for object.prototype. Coming from Ruby, I like this change.

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