What does es6 mean? What can be done?

Many students may encounter es6 when they come into contact with JavaScript. So what does es6 mean? What can be done? The following article will introduce to you the meaning and simple usage of es6. Interested friends can refer to it.

What does es6 mean?

ES6 is ECMAScript6, which is the standard for the new version of JavaScript language. Its goal is to make JavaScript language can be used to write complex large-scale applications and become an enterprise-level development language.

ECMAScript defines:

Language grammar: grammar parsing rules, keywords, statements, declarations, operators, etc.

Type: Boolean, number, string, object, etc.

Prototype and inheritance

Standard library of built-in objects and functions: JSON, Math, array methods, object introspection methods, etc.

After reading the meaning of es6, let’s take a look at what es6 can be used for?

What can es6 do?

ES6 is a major version upgrade. At the same time, because ES6 adheres to the design concept of maximizing compatibility with existing code, the JS code you wrote in the past will continue to run normally.

Many browsers already support some ES6 features and will continue to work on implementing the remaining features. This means that in some browsers that have implemented some features, your JS code can already run normally.

Popular MVVM frameworks such as Vue, React, Angular, etc. will be better developed with ES6. The construction tools of these frameworks also support the compilation of ES6.

The latest Node.js version already supports 99% of ES6 features, which means that it is enough for most businesses to use in projects.

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