Introduction
Today it’s possible for us to author in ES6 and transpile our sources down to ES5 at build-time, regardless of whether we’re using Grunt, Gulp or Broccoli. With projects like Ember and Angular looking to ES6 as part of their roadmaps too (Ember App Kit already supports ES6 modules!), now is a great time to learn how ES6 can be used in practice.
In this guide, we’ll re-write the well known TodoMVC application (implemented with Backbone.js) using ECMAScript 6 language semantics. The implementation is made possible using Google’s Traceur compiler and ES6-Module-Loader.
Almost every day, we see new libraries, frameworks and tools being released in the JavaScript community — many of which simply reinvent the wheel.
This regular stream of solutions, which opt to create something new rather than improve an existing solution is what we at TodoMVC refer to as ‘Yet Another Framework Syndrome’ — or in more general terms NIH (Not Invented Here). Whilst innovation is something we should all welcome, YAFS can lead to confusion and frustration for users because there’s a big risk of it introducing more noise than value. Just one example is MVC.
Developers often just…
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A better JavaScript learning experience. Keeper of TodoMVC & @PropertyCross. Eater of popsicles. http://tastejs.com
