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ES6 with Babel.js

ECMAScript 2015, also commonly known as ES2015 or ES6, is the specification that defines the ECMAScript language, of which JavaScript is one implementation. This new version of the specification introduces language features to JavaScript that can improve developer efficiency and happiness. Some features … Continue reading

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Shine’s Ben Teese to speak at Web Directions Code

Shine Senior Consultant Ben Teese will be speaking at the upcoming Web Directions Code conference in Melbourne on June 27th and 28th. Ben will be talking about ES6 Promises. Web Directions Code is the premier front-end engineering conference in Australia. It features … Continue reading

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ES6 Promises are here!

The ES6 spaceship has landed and promises are amongst the first new features to come down the ramp. I’m very excited about this. This is because I love promises. They’ve been lurking around for years in different incarnations, but now that we’ve … Continue reading

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New screencast on Koa and Javascript Generators

Senior Consultant Ben Teese recently spoke at MelbJS about a new Javascript language feature that makes asynchronous programming much more straightforward: ES6 generators. The talk focussed on Koa, a next-generation web framework for Node.js that leverages generators to avoid the callback chaos … Continue reading

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