Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

Get up and running with all the new features of ECMAScript and explore new ways of coding with JavaScript.

Key Features

• Grasp the latest features of ECMAScript and the best way to use it in production code
• Learn newly added native APIs to JS Engine and perform tasks efficiently with a cleaner code base
• Understand the more complex sides of JavaScript such as the inheritance model, low-level memory management, multithreaded environments, and web workers

Book Description

Learn ECMAScript explores implementation of the latest ECMAScript features to add to your developer toolbox, helping you to progress to an advanced level. Learn to add 1 to a variable andsafely access shared memory data within multiple threads to avoid race conditions.

You'll start the book by building on your existing knowledge of JavaScript, covering performing arithmetic operations, using arrow functions and dealing with closures. Next, you will grasp the most commonly used ECMAScript skills such as reflection, proxies, and classes. Furthermore, you'll learn modularizing the JS code base, implementing JS on the web and how the modern HTML5 + JS APIs provide power to developers on the web. Finally, you will learn the deeper parts of the language, which include making JavaScript multithreaded with dedicated and shared web workers, memory management, shared memory, and atomics. It doesn't end here; this book is 100% compatible with ES.Next.

By the end of this book, you'll have fully mastered all the features of ECMAScript!

What you will learn

• Implement methods associated with objects as per the latest ECMAScript specification
• Make use of the latest features of ECMAScript
• Make use of many new APIs in HTML5 and modern JavaScript implementation
• Use SharedArrayBuffers for superfast concurrent and parallel programming
• Perform asynchronous programming with JavaScript
• Implement the best ways and practices to perform modular programming in JavaScript

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web developers who have some basic programming knowledge and want to learn to write cleaner code with the power of ECMAScript.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with ECMAScript
2. Knowing Your Library
3. Using Iterators
4. Asynchronous Programming
5. Modular Programming
6. Implementing the Reflect API
7. Proxies
8. Classes
9. JavaScript on the Web
10. Storage APIs in JavaScript
11. Web and Service Workers
12. Shared Memory and Atomics

Mehul Mohan is an independent developer and a security researcher. Currently, he is pursuing his bachelor's degree in computer science at BITS Pilani. He aims to provide free technical knowledge to all through his website "codedamn". He loves reading about techy stuff and you'll often find him creating programming tutorials on his YouTube channel, codedamn; he has over 50,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. He has been acknowledged by companies such as Google, Microsoft, Sony, Envoy, InVision, and such for his contribution as a security researcher.

Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer with 5 years of experience. He specializes in Blockchain, Cloud, and JavaScript. His commitment has allowed him to build scalable products for start-ups, governments, and enterprises across India, Singapore, USA, and UAE. At present, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, IPFS, and Ripple are some of the things he uses on a regular basis to build decentralized applications. Currently, he works as a full-time full-stack and Blockchain Engineer at ConsenSys Enterprise. He starts working on something immediately if he feels it's exciting and solves real work problems. He built a MP3 search engine at the age of 18 years and since then he has built various other applications, which are used by people around the globe. His ability to build scalable applications from top to bottom is what makes him special. Currently, he is on a mission to make things easier, faster, and cheaper using blockchain technology. Also, he is looking at possibilities to prevent corruptions and fraud and bring transparency to the world using blockchain technology.