10 Most Asked ES6 Interview Questions & Answers For Developers - GeeksforGeeks

27 May, 2021
When JavaScript came into the picture of the programming world, the name was chosen for marketing reasons. At that time Java was getting popular all around the world (but you better know both are different). Later it was submitted to ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) to standardize the language and its specification. 
Later it was named ECMAScript of ES. The first edition was released in June 1997. ES6 is the sixth edition of the language, and it was later renamed ECMAScript 2015. The edition introduced many new features such as class, modules, iterators, for/of loop, arrow functions, typed arrays, promises, reflection, etc. 
In June 2016 ES6 was released, and later it was renamed ECMAScript 2015. In June 2017 the eighth was released and with some included features for concurrency and atomics, syntactic integration with promises (async/await). Let’s discuss some common questions that you should prepare for the interviews. These questions will be helpful in clearing the interviews specially for the frontend development role. 
Below are the common features of ES6...
Support for constants/immutable variables.
Block scope support for both variables, constants, functions.
Arrow functions
Extended parameter Handling
Default parameters
Template literals and extended literals.
Destructuring Assignment
Arrow functions
Promises
Classes
Modules
Support for Map/Set & WeakMap/WeakSet
Promises, localization, meta-programming, internationalization
In JavaScript when we were declaring any variable using var keyword. Var keyword is function scoped. We can access the variable within a function. This leads to wrap the code in a function whenever we had to create a new scope. 
Let and const both are blocks scoped. If you declare a variable using these keywords then it only exists within the innermost block that surrounds them. Suppose you declare a variable using let inside a block(if a condition or for-loop) then it will be accessed only within a block. 
Below is an example of the let keyword...
Javascript
if(true) {    let a=0;    console.log(a); //prints 0;}  console.log(a); throws ReferenceError: a is not defined.
Const is immutable in JavaScript. You can not change or reassign its value once it is declared. 
Javascript
const a=0;a=1; // TypeError: Assignment to constatnt variable.const b= [1, 2];b.push(3); //[1, 2, 3]b[3]= 4; // [1, 2, 3, 4]
Make a practice to use let and const instead of var keyword. 
In ES6 arrow function is defined to define the function and use it. Basically, it’s a shorthand notation of Arrow functions. You can pass the parameter list (.....) to the arrow function followed by =>marker and a function body. If you’re declaring the arrow function with a single argument then you don’t need to use parenthesis.
Javascript
function add(a, b) {    return a+b;};  //Implementation with arrow function  const add = (a, b) =>a+b;  // With single argument, no parenthesis required  const add5 = a => 5+a;
Let’s discuss some differences between the arrow functions and the normal function.
They don’t have their own versions, and they close over this.
They can have a concise body instead of a verbose one. (They can also have a verbose body)
You can not use them as constructors. You’re not allowed to use new with an arrow function. This simply means an arrow function can not have a prototype property on them.
There isn’t generator syntax for the arrow function. For example: There is no arrow equivalent to function *foo() {...}.
Set is the collection of new values. In Set, there shouldn’t be any duplicate value. All the values should be unique. These values can be primitive types or object references. 
Javascript
var mySet = new Set();  mySet.add(1); // Set [1]mySet.add(5); // Set [1, 5]mySet.add(5); // Set [1, 5] --ignored
NaN and undefined can be stored in a Set. 
This is a new feature in ES6. Generator function allows you to generate many values over time, returning an object. We can iterate this object, and we can pull values from the function one value at a time. When you call a generator function it returns an iterable object. We use * sign for a generator function with a new ‘yield’ keyword in ES6.
Javascript
function *infiniteNumbers() {    let n=1;    while(true) {        yield n++;    }}  const numbers = infiniteNumbers(); // returns an iterable object  numbers.next(); // { value: 1, done: false}numbers.next(); // { value: 2, done: false}numbers.next(); // { value: 3, done: false}
Spread operator is used to obtain the list of parameters. It is represented by three dots (...). Basically spread operator takes an iterable (such as array or string) and expands it into individual elements. In JavaScript, it is mainly used to make shallow copies of JS. It makes your code concise and increases the readability of your code.
You can use the spread operator to combine or to perform the concatenation between arrays. An example is given below...
Javascript
let num1 = [40,50,60];      let num2 = [10,20,30,...num1,70,80,90,100];      console.log(num2);
In ES6 destructuring was introduced to extract data from arrays and objects into an individual variable. It allows you to extract the smaller fragment from objects and arrays. An example is given below...
Javascript
let fullname =['Alan','Rickman'];  let [fname,lname] = fullname;  console.log (fname,lname);
Before the ES6 was introduced we were using an object to map the keys and values. Map becomes a new way in ES6 to represent the data in key-value pairs. Map is ordered, and it remembers the insertion order of the keys. You can traverse the elements in their insertion order. 
Below is the representation of Map
var map = new Map([iterable]);
In JavaScript, there is a concept of asynchronous programming. In asynchronous programming, you run the processes individually from the main thread. In ES6 promises are the easiest way to deal with asynchronous programming. A promise can either be rejected or resolved depending on the operation outcome. Before promises were introduced in ES6, callbacks were used to deal with asynchronous programming. 
But it created the problem of callback hell and to overcome this problem promises were introduced. 
In the callback, a function gets executed after the completion of another function. In JavaScript callback is helpful in working with events. We pass a function into another function as an argument to another function. 
When we use callback in our web application, a lot of times happens that callback becomes nested. Excessive use of callbacks makes your web application messy and results in callback hell. 
We have included 10 important questions of ES6 which are really important for interview purposes. Apart from these questions, there are some other concepts important in ES6. For example...
Modules in JavaScript
Hoisting in JavaScript
Concept of Babel
Concept of Webpack
Concept of Weakset
Concept of Weakmap
Template literals
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