Learn ES6 in 5 Minutes

Michael King
Nov 2 · 2 min read

ES6 has been around for a long time now and it quickly changed the standards of writing JavaScript. In this tutorial I’ll show you the old standards of writing JavaScript vs the new standards in ES6.

Defining Variables — Using let/const Instead of var

The “var” keyword should no longer be used to declare variables, it can been replaced with 2 new keywords. For…

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