An Effective Guide to Modern JavaScript

Book excerpt: ES8 was finalized in June 2017. This book: - effectively teaches standard JavaScript from A to Z. - includes all the JavaScript common APIs, presented in a highly organized fashion. - lists in the Appendix the new features introduced in each JavaScript edition from ES5 to ES8 and beyond, and illustrates all of them. - clearly explains advanced concepts such as closures, Proxy, generators, Promise, async functions, and Atomics. - covers OOP techniques -- classical JavaScript OOP, the new 'class' syntax, data encapsulation, multiple inheritance, abstract classes, object relay etc. - teaches you how to define and use iterators and various iterables. - turns you into an efficient JavaScript coder.