ECMAScript 2017 (ES8) was released at the end of June 2017 by Technical Committee number 39 (TC39). It's part of ECMA, the institution that standardizes the JavaScript language under the ECMAScript specification. Currently, the standard aims to publish a new ES specification version once a year. ES6 was published in 2015 and ES7 was published in 2016. A lot changed when ES6 was released (arrow functions, classes, generators, module loaders, async programming, and so on) and even more interesting stuff keeps happening, as time goes by.
In this chapter, we'll be starting off with the fundamentals of JavaScript, starting off with ES6 basics and heading towards ES8 stuff. Furthermore, we'll be taking a look at ...
