JavaScript Fundamentals: Understanding ES6

ES6 (or ECMAScript 2015) is the 6th version of the ECMAScript programming language. ECMAScript is the standardization of JavaScript which was released in 2015, hence the name: ECMAScript 2015!

A great advantage of ES6, is that it allows us to write code in a more modern & readable way. It has also introduced a number of new features such as: let/const, arrow functions, a new ‘this’ scope…