Recently I wrote a blog post and even created an online course on ES6/ES2015. Guess what? TC39 — the mighty overseer of JavaScript — is moving forward with ES8 so let’s cover ES7 and ES8 (or ES2016 and ES2017 officially). Luckily, they are much, much, much smaller than the best of a standard that was ES6. Really! ES7 has only two (2) features!

ES7 features:

1. Array.prototype.includes
2. Exponentiation Operator

ES8 is not finalized yet as of this writing (Jan, 2017) but we can assume all finished proposals (stage 4) and most of stage 3 (more on stages here and in my course). The finished 2017 (ES8) proposals are:

1. Object.values/Object.entries
2. String padding
3. Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors
4. Trailing commas in function parameter lists and calls
5. Async Functions

I won’t include stage 3 proposals in this post, but you can check the status of proposals from stage 1 to 3 here.

Let’s dive deeper into the proposals and features.

The rest of the article: https://node.university/blog/498412/es7-es8