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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Top 18 New Things in JS - Part 1

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Wes and Scott discuss their favorite top 18 new things in Javascript. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Mlab - Sponsor mLab is the leading Database-as-a-Service for MongoDB, powering over half a million deployments worldwide. Wes and Scott use mLab to host their own databases as well as take care of backups, security, scaling and performance. Try out a sandbox database on your next mongoDB project → https://mlab.com. Show Notes 6:02 Const / Let 10:00 Template literals / Template strings Toggle Quotes Extension Prettier 14:29 Object destructuring 21:28 Array destructuring 27:25 Function Param destructuring 30:14 Promises Wes’ Async + Await Talk 36:24 Async + Await Syntax Ep 028 - Async + Await 40:59 Object Computed Property Name 43:42 Object Method Syntax Links Denver Startup Week ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Red Bull VC One World Final 2018 Wes: Jura Impressa Shameless Plugs Scott’s Better Javascript Course Wes 1: CSS Grid in 45 Minutes Wes 2: Async + Await Talk Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

So welcome to Syntax, the Web Development Podcast with the tastiest treats around.

0:17.4

With me as always is Wes Boss.

0:19.7

Hello.

0:20.7

Hey Wes, my name is Scott Tolinsky and today we're going to be talking all about nine of our favorite

0:27.1

top 18 new JavaScript features.

0:30.1

Basically, we have a top 18 list of new JavaScript features that we absolutely love

0:36.4

use all the time and we're going to be splitting it up into two episodes because this is

0:40.9

too tasty for one episode.

0:43.2

It's just jam-packed.

0:45.1

And we're gonna have a sponsor between every single one, like one of those,

0:48.4

you know, those like Forbes articles that you have to click next.

0:52.0

Yeah, I'm going to do that.

0:55.0

Or like a 15 minute YouTube video where they like inserted like 15 ads.

0:59.0

You just gotta get an ad every couple of seconds, no thanks.

1:02.0

We're not doing that. This episode is

1:04.3

sponsored by two very excellent sponsors. Fresh books which we all know is

1:09.0

amazing cloud accounting software that Wes and I both love and use and M Lab which is the

1:14.2

perfect place to store your database in the cloud. It's another service that both

1:19.2

Wes and I have been using for a long time. Just really love... Yeah both sponsors today are a long time user and they also, they came on a sponsor, so that's pretty cool.

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