JavaScript: discovering advanced notions

Objectives

To provide the skills and knowledge required to master modern JavaScript techniques with ECMAScript 6 and understand the key patterns used in developing JavaScript frameworks and their extensions

Targeted audience

Web integrators and developers.

Content

• Table manipulation functions: filter, forEach, map and reduce
• Review of objects: prototypal inheritance, object create and defineProperty methods
• Closures, hoisting and immediately invoked function expressions (IIFE)
• A few key JavaScript patterns: module, observer, singleton
• Properties of ECMAScript 6 (ES6): constants and block scope; destructuring operators; arrow functions; classes; string templates; destructuring; for…of loop; formatting of numbers, dates and currencies; Promise object; modules; generators
• ECMAScript 8 async/await functions (ES8)