MEAN Web Development - Second Edition

Introduction to ECMAScript 2015

After years of work, the ES6 specification was released on June 2015. It presented the biggest advancements in JavaScript since ES5 and introduced several features into the language that will completely transform the way we JavaScript developers write code. It would be ambitious to describe all the improvements made by ES2015. Instead, let's try to work through the basic features we'll use in the next chapters.

Modules

Modules are now a supported language-level feature. They allow developers to wrap their component in a Module pattern, and export and import modules inside their code. The implementation is very similar to the CommonJS module implementation described in the previous chapters, although ES2015 modules ...