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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Top 18 New Things in JS - Part 2

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Wes and Scott continue the discussion of 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. Graph CMS - Sponsor GraphCMS is trying to be the world’s most developer friendly CMS. It’s a great way to build a GraphQL API without having to write a custom GraphQL server. Try out the API-first CMS of the future today at graphcms.com/syntaxfm. Show Notes 3:30 Spread 8:40 Rests 11:54 Arrow Functions 15:48 Default Function Arguments 19:47 Named params 21:26 Modules 35:35 Classes 41:54 Things we never use Links Jake’s Minesweeper ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Trader Joe’s Everything by the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend Wes: Trader Joe’s Green Dragon Hot Sauce Shameless Plugs Scott’s Better Javascript Course Wes’ ES6 For Everyone 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. Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

Welcome to Syntax. My name is Wes Boss and with me is Scott Tylinsky. This is the Tasty Treat web development

0:18.6

podcast where we talk about all things in

0:25.0

web development. Today we're doing the second half of our top 18 new things in J.S. I think 18.

0:28.0

Maybe 17, maybe 20, who knows, we'll do what we want.

0:32.0

Yeah. Yeah, we totally want. maybe 20 who knows we'll do what we want yeah and yeah we do what we want

0:35.1

we do what we want if you miss the first half make sure you go back to last

0:38.8

week's episode which is part one this is part two we're to pick it up right from spreads and move it all on through functions,

0:45.6

arrow functions, named perams, a couple other tasty treats in there. Today we are sponsored by two awesome companies,

0:52.0

Fresh Books Cloud Accounting and Graf CMS,

0:55.5

which is a GrafQL-based CMS.

0:58.5

We'll talk a little bit more about both of those companies

1:00.5

part way through.

1:01.6

But how you doing today, Scott? doing pretty good. Yeah. Yeah,

1:05.5

it's starting to be that time of the year we're getting some chilly temps here definitely

1:10.6

layering up a little bit which is wild because it was like 90 degrees last week

1:14.4

that's what Denver is like it was like 90 degrees and sunny and now it's like very cold

1:19.4

so it's getting to be that time of the year, but I'm loving it.

1:23.1

You know, I'm getting to bust out, bust out some of my layers,

1:26.5

which, you know, you always got to love some layers.

1:29.2

Yeah, pull out those flannels, yeah.

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