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title: ES6
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---
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## ES6
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The 6th edition of ECMAScript is called ES6.
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It is also know as ES2015.
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The changes add a lot of syntactic sugar that allow developers to create applications in an object oriented style.
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> ES5 example:
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```javascript
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var User = function () {
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function User(name) {
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this._name = name;
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}
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User.prototype.getName = function getName(x) {
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return 'Mr./Mrs. ' + this._name;
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};
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return User;
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}();
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```
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> ES6 example:
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```javascript
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class User {
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constructor(name) {
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this._name = name
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}
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getName() {
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return `Mr./Mrs. ${this._name}`
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}
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}
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```
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A lot of new syntax features were introduced including:
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- classes,
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- modules,
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- templating,
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- for/of loops,
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- generator expressions,
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- arrow functions,
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- collections,
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- promises.
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Nowadays most of the features are available in all popular browsers. The <a href='https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>compatibility table</a> contains all information about feature availability of all modern browsers.
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Frequently new features arrive that are part of the successor ES7. A common way is to translate modern JavaScript (ES6, ES7 and other experimental proposals) to ES5. This makes sure that also old browsers can execute the code. There are tools like <a href='https://babeljs.io/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Babel</a> that transforms new JavaScript to ES5.
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Besides syntactic sugar coming from ECMAScript standards there are features that require a <a href='https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/polyfill' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Polyfill</a>. Usually they are necessary because whole class/method implementations were added to the standard.
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