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Fork this gist and answer the following questions:

  • What is ES6?

  • ES6 is the latest version of ECMAScript, which is the standard on which JavaScript is built.

  • What is Transpilation and how does it relate to ES6?

  • Transpilation is the process of compiling source code of one language into another language. Since ES6 isn't supported by all browsers a transpiler such as babel is needed to compile it into ES5.

  • Looking at the ES6 Features link below, discuss one update from ES5 and if it seems useful/superfluous,

  • I think that one of my favorite features of ES6 is the ability to define a class. I love that you can simply define a class with a constructor that is akin to an initialize method in ruby. Also the ability to simply define methods within the class is awesome. Coming from ruby this is much more readable than ES5.

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