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<div><p>There's no doubt that the JavaScript ecosystem changes fast. Not only are new tools and frameworks introduced and developed at a rapid rate, the language itself has undergone big changes with the introduction of ES2015 (aka ES6). Understandably, many articles have been written complaining about how difficult it is to learn modern JavaScript development these days. We're aiming to minimize that confusion with this set of books on modern JavaScript.</p><p>This book provides an introduction to many of the powerful new JavaScript language features that were introduced in ECMAScript 2015, as well as features introduced in ECMAScript 2016 and 2017. It also takes a look at the features planned for ECMAScript 2018 in this rapidly evolving language. It contains:</p><ul><li><em>New Keywords: let and const</em> by Aurelio de Rosa</li><li><em>Using Map, Set, WeakMap, WeakSet</em> by Kyle Pennell</li><li><em>New Array.* and Array.prototype.* Methods</em> by Aurelio de Rosa</li><li><em>New String Methods</em> by Aurelio de Rosa</li><li><em>New Number Methods</em> by Aurelio de Rosa</li><li><em>ES6 Arrow Functions: Fat and Concise Syntax in JavaScript</em> by Kyle Pennell</li><li><em>Symbols and Their Uses</em> by Nilson Jacques</li><li><em>How to Use Proxies</em> by Craig Buckler</li><li><em>Destructuring Assignment</em> by Craig Buckler</li><li><em>ES6 Generators and Iterators: a Developer' Guide</em> by Byron Houwens</li><li><em>Object-oriented JavaScript: A Deep Dive into ES6 Classes</em> by Jeff Mott</li><li><em>Understanding ES6 Modules</em> by Craig Buckler</li><li><em>An Overview of JavaScript Promises</em> by Sandeep Panda</li><li><em>JavaScript Decorators: What They Are and When to Use Them</em> by Graham Cox</li><li><em>Enhanced Object Literals</em> by Craig Buckler</li><li><em>Introduction to the Fetch API</em> by Ludovico Fischer</li><li><em>ES6 (ES2015) and Beyond: Understanding JavaScript Versioning</em> by James Wright</li><li><em>What's New in ES2017: Asy