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ECMAScript 6 Introduction training course

ECMAScript 6 - Transition to the next generation of Enterprise level Javascript

"Our tailored course provided a well rounded introduction and also covered some intermediate level topics that we needed to know. Clive gave us some best practice ideas and tips to take away. Fast paced but the instructor never lost any of the delegates"

Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022

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Highlights

Transition from JavaScript to ECMAScript 6 (2015) and 2016
Maximise reusability with modules, classes and inheritance
Simplify asynchronous programming with Promises
Leverage ECMAScript server-side with Node.js
Build end-to-end, enterprise applications using ECMAScript
Transpiling and debugging ES2015 code
Replacing anonymous functions with arrows
Converting asynchronous callbacks to Promises
Encapsulating functionality with modules

Course Details

Introduction and Overview

Revisiting JavaScript history
Incorporating ECMAScript new versions and features
Mapping TC39 release stages
Moving ECMAScript to the server

Pushing Javascript Further

Exploring JavaScript language features

Programming with a weakly typed language
Exploiting JavaScript's dynamic nature
Working with strings, numbers, dates, arrays

Developing Functional JavaScript Code

Comparing function definitions vs. function expressions
Manipulating function callbacks
Passing functions as arguments
Immediately invoked function expressions
Understanding closures

Building JavaScript objects

Coding object literals
Adding properties and methods to objects
Instantiating objects with constructor functions
Defining prototype methods
Serialising data with JSON
Requesting services with XMLHttpRequest

Moving Forward to ECMAScript 2016

Writing ECMAScript that runs everywhere

Transpiling ECMAScript with Traceur and Babel
Exploring transpiled code
Ensuring best practices with strict mode

Simplifying variables and strings

Declaring block scope variables with let
Programming constants
Exploiting new string methods
Formatting output with template literals

Managing collections of data

Taking advantage of new array methods
Enumerating collections with iterators
Manipulating data with sets and maps
Producing iterable data with generators and yield

Streamlining functional programming with ES6

Making asynchronous programming easier with promises
Defining arrow functions
Passing arrow functions as callbacks

Object-Orientation

Classes and Inheritance

Defining classes
Adding properties and methods to classes
Simulating private state with WeakMap
Creating unique property keys with symbols
Coding getters, setters and constructors
Extending classes with inheritance

Reusing JavaScript

Defining modules
Exporting and importing classes and functions
Importing module functionality

Server Side ECMAScript

Building applications for Node.js

Installing Node.js
Setting up a Node.js development environment
Managing packages with npm
The build process with webpack

Web services

Creating Node.js web applications with Express
Exposing RESTful services
Calling Node.js services

Accessing stored data

Processing NoSQL data with MongoDB
Providing relational database data

Enterprise Class ECMAScript

Deploying quality code

Unit testing ECMAScript with Jest
Integrating code quality and analysis tools

Publishing ECMAScript applications

Minimising download size with tree-shake
Integrating resource hashes for cache-busting

Who should attend

JavaScript Programmers looking to transition to ECMAScript

Feedback

4.8 out of 5 average

Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022

“JBI did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”

Brian F, Team Lead, RBS, Data Analysis Course, 20 April 2022

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More about this course

Our ECMAScript 6 training course is run by real world experts who can show how the latest features of JavaScript make it a more powerful and efficient language for enterprise development, utilising common tools and frameworks for package management, transpiling, deployment, testing, and application development. This is a Hands-On course with high practical content and you will be able to take away with you some of the examples worked on during the course.