17 Using ES6 with Babel
The JavaScript language was created in 1994, received a few updates in 1999, but went unchanged from 1999 to 2009. A set of small changes was introduced in 2009, resulting in the version of JavaScript known as ES5, or the fifth edition of the standard.
In 2015, a number of language improvements were added as the sixth edition of the standard. Many of these new language features were influenced by languages like Ruby and Python. Technically, this sixth edition is named ES2015, but it is more commonly known as ES6.
ES6 is well supported by Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. These are evergreen browsers, meaning that they self-update without the user needing to manually download and install ...
Get Front-End Web Development: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
