JavaScript: Understanding ES6 and Beyond
What you'll learn
- How let and const work under-the-hood
- Template Literals
- What Classes really are inside the JavaScript engine
- How Arrow Functions work under-the-hood
- Symbols
- and more ES6 and beyond features
Requirements
- A good understanding of execution contexts, closures, objects, and first-class functions
Description
JavaScript is the language of the internet. Learning it has allowed many front and backend web developers to get jobs. Yet JavaScript’s newest features can be confusing and hard to understand.
In this course you will learn to deeply understand how newer JavaScript language features work under-the-hood, such as:
Block Scoping (let and const)
Templates
Classes
Arrow Functions
Symbols
Iterators and Iterables
Default Parameters
ES6 and beyond refers to features added to the JavaScript language in ES6 and ES Next. These features often will make your coding life easier, and are used by modern JavaScript frameworks, like React, Vue, Angular, and more.
As always, these topics will be covered with the focus on my core philosophy: "Don't Imitate, Understand". You won't try to learn by imitating the code I'm writing, but rather by deeply understanding how these language features work inside JavaScript engines. Deeply understanding means you will not only write better code, but also find it much easier to debug problems.
This course’s goal, then, is to help you have a deep understanding of JavaScript’s newest features. Through analysis of the inner working of the JavaScript engine, you can write code more confidentially and fix problems others find difficult.
It’s time for you to deeply understand ES6 and beyond!
Happy coding!
- Tony Alicea
Who this course is for:
- Intermediate developers continuing their JavaScript education
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 104,306 Reviews
- 341,757 Students
- 10 Courses
Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio, now married and living in upstate New York, Tony is primarily focused these days on trying to be a good husband. While inexperienced at that, he's quite experienced in all things web.
Tony has been programming since he was 12 years old, and got into web sites and web application development at 16. After graduating with a Computer Science degree from Case Western Reserve University, Tony continued with that interest as a Microsoft certified software application developer and architect, database designer, and user interface designer.
His experience has ranged across technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, ASP .NET MVC, JavaScript, jQuery, KnockoutJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, LESS, Bootstrap, SQL, Entity Framework and more.
He believes strongly that deeply understanding any topic allows you to properly learn it and, even more importantly in a real-world environment, quickly overcome problems.
He also has a deep interest in human nature and behavior, and how that impacts human-computer interaction. This interest translated into extending his career into user experience design and usability research.
Another link in the chain is his 25 years of experience in public speaking and teaching, both in front of large groups and as a one-on-one private instructor.
Putting all these pieces together, he has spent his career listening to a client need, designing a database and software to meet that need, building it, testing it, teaching others how to use it, then improving user experience by watching people actually use it and adjusting accordingly.
Tony loves teaching every aspect of what he does, and even more loves teaching in a way that imparts understanding, as opposed to just examples intended to be parroted. He loves that moment when a student 'gets it', and that's what he wants for you when you take one of his courses.
He has found that those that learn purely by example, and not by understanding, end up much more limited than they need to be.
"Examples need to be built on top of context, and once you have context, you can not only copy the examples you find, but adjust and improve upon them."
He firmly believes that everyone has the ability to develop software, if they are just taught properly. Including you.
"It is my pleasure and privilege to teach you. I hope you'll come away knowing something you didn't before, understanding at a level deeper than before, and feeling positive that you can accomplish what you've set out to accomplish. Thank you!" - Tony Alicea
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