ECMAScript Cookbook

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Enhance your web programming skills by mastering efficient and modular code with ES6 and ES8. Key features include writing asynchronous code to improve application readability and exploring advanced concepts like closures, Proxy, generators, Promise, async functions, and Atomics. This resource adopts a modular approach with independent recipes that cover various ECMAScript features, guiding you to become an efficient programmer. The content begins with organizing JavaScript applications for both modern and legacy systems. You'll learn about ECMAScript 8 features, including async, SharedArrayBuffers, and Atomic operations, which enhance asynchronous and parallel operations. The book also introduces OOP and Collections, along with new functions and methods on built-in Object and Array types, making operations more manageable and less error-prone. You'll discover how to build sophisticated program structures using classes and inheritance, and explore new types like Sets, Maps, and Symbols introduced in ECMAScript 6, allowing you to create powerful modules. By the end, you will be equipped to produce efficient, expressive, and simpler programs leveraging the latest ECMAScript features. This book is ideal for web developers with a basic understanding of JavaScript looking to learn the latest tools for efficient web application development.