Book description
Understanding ECMAScript 6 is your roadmap to the new object types, syntax, and other exciting features in the latest version of JavaScript.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Contents in Detail
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Block Bindings
- Chapter 2: Strings and Regular Expressions
- Chapter 3: Functions
- Chapter 4: Expanded Object Functionality
- Chapter 5: Destructuring for Easier Data Access
- Chapter 6: Symbols and Symbol Properties
- Chapter 7: Sets and Maps
- Chapter 8: Iterators and Generators
- Chapter 9: Introducing JavaScript Classes
- Chapter 10: Improved Array Capabilities
- Chapter 11: Promises and Asynchronous Programming
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Chapter 12: Proxies and the Reflection API
- The Array Problem
- Introducing Proxies and Reflection
- Creating a Simple Proxy
- Validating Properties Using the set Trap
- Object Shape Validation Using the get Trap
- Hiding Property Existence Using the has Trap
- Preventing Property Deletion with the deleteProperty Trap
- Prototype Proxy Traps
- Object Extensibility Traps
- Property Descriptor Traps
- The ownKeys Trap
- Function Proxies with the apply and construct Traps
- Revocable Proxies
- Solving the Array Problem
- Using a Proxy as a Prototype
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Encapsulating Code with Modules
- Appendix A: Minor Changes in ECMAScript 6
- Appendix B: Understanding ECMAScript 7 (2016)
- Index
- Updates
- Level Up Your JavaScript
Product information
- Title: Understanding ECMAScript 6
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2016
- Publisher(s): No Starch Press
- ISBN: 9781593277574
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