7 Strong Reasons That Will Make You Love ES6
By: Amy J. Andrews
Tags: Javascript Development, Coffee2021, ES6, Backend Development, Frontend Development

7 Strong Reasons That Will Make You Love ES6

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Developers have many reasons why ES6 is their favorite, and they consider it to have a bright future; I have mentioned 7 of them here for you.

You Can Start Writing This Even From Today

Knowing that browsers will not offer you full feature support may seem to be upsetting for you. You might think that you are not able to enjoy ES6’s excellent features. But you do not need to worry about it, as we have got it covered. There’s a new project called Babel. This project takes ES6 codes and then transpiles them.

By this, we mean that the project rewrites that specific code in the older language, ES5. This is how it helps programmers enjoy ES6 new features without even waiting for the web browser to get updated and cache up with the latest technology. It also allows developers to enjoy almost all the features of ES6 without even waiting for their users to update their web browser to use the newest version.

ES6 Includes Helpful Features as Literal Template Strings

One of our favorite features of ES6, which makes us love it, is its template literal strings. Although it is a smaller one, it is still one of the most demanded features because it allows in building pr the columns that include multiple variables in them.

Ruby includes a feature called string interpolation, which does the same task. JavaScript did not have this feature until the development of ES6. After ES6 came along, it supported the same mission but went with a bit different name.

Although you can consider it to be a not-so noticeable feature, whenever you are building up the strings built of many different parts, this feature of template literal strings proves to be enjoyable to use.

Try this out. We can guarantee you that it will make you feel good to write whenever you use literal template strings in the ES6.

ES6 Has Got a Breakneck Speed

As we already know, it took a lot of time for Google to build the chrome web browser. Any of the processes like creating such things related to programming take a lot of time in coding. For example, tuning the algorithms responsible for dictating how JavaScript executes took so much time.

In all of this process, Google extracted their JavaScript runtime from that one of the web browsers into something which they called NodeJS (which is the JavaScript programming language minus a web browser).

By this, we can conclude that Javascript has amazingly fast. One of the primary reasons to love it is its efficiency in tasks of different purposes. ES6 also takes advantage of JavaScript in all the performance optimization.

ES6 Has Got Some Beneficial Features as The Fat Arrows

One of the most noticeable things about ES6 is its features called The Fat Arrows. The Fat Arrows is a feature that allows you if you want to bind the context of the current scope you have with the executing function. This feature is also helpful in writing less code, all the credits to its minimal syntax.

These fat arrows come up with a wide range of different flavors. For instance, let’s consider you have one parameter. You can easily define that parameter without taking into use the parenthesis.

The Keywords in ES6 Help Programmers in Solving Typical Scoping Problems

ES6 has got some really unique keywords which are const and let. These keywords have replaced JavaScript’s traditional var.

You might be thinking about what function these keywords do? These are the keywords responsible for helping programmers write codes on a safer side without worrying too much about leaking the variable out of scope. These exact keywords are also responsible for preventing you from harm, like having duplicate declarations of the variable that too in the same range.

In this way, the keywords which ES6 has to help programmers in catching problems with the scoping.

ES6 is Better at Solving Problems With Logic

It initially created the CoffeeScript programming language to tackle a wide range of different problems plaguing JavaScript. Essentially, it was designed to make it a bit more challenging for all the developers out there to write the buggy codes. It seems to be similar to Ruby, but it works with JavaScript. However, developers of CoffeeScript still need to have a basic understanding of JavaScript. The reason behind this is documentation and example codes will give you just an idea about how you can achieve something you want in JavaScript.

As we already said, a lot of problems were being faced by JavaScript. And amazingly, ES6 came up with a solution to most of them. Backward, it is compatible with JavaScript. ES6 is easy to learn incrementally, and then it starts adapting features slowly.

Another Fantastic Feature Called the Spread Operator is Also One of the Reasons to Love ES6

What an exciting way this new feature of ES6 is, called the Spread Operator. This new feature of ES6 helps developers in building new arrays. All these new arrays are based on the values of existing collections. This feature can take a bit of time for you to love, but it will become one of the features you appreciate the most in the ES6 language once you do.

Brandon Morelli talked about Spread Operator in his article. Check it out:

This feature is a single construct in ES6, which is super versatile, one reason why developers love ES6 the most. Much similar to the splat operator in Ruby, the Spread Operator helps performs the following tasks.

It can help in copying an array

It aids in Concatenate arrays

This feature is also helpful in inserting new items into arrays

This feature is one of the most powerful tools ever introduced on ES6. Once you have started figuring it out, the Spread Operator will become your choice to solve any problem during working with arrays. It also helps to make libraries like Lodash or Underscore less important. It is made possible by making arrays built directly into the language.

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