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Oct 2018
51m 45s

Top 18 New Things in JS - Part 1

Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack Javascript Web Developers
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In this episode Wes and Scott discuss their favorite top 18 new things in Javascript.

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Show Notes

6:02

  • Const / Let

10:00

14:29

  • Object destructuring

21:28

  • Array destructuring

27:25

  • Function Param destructuring

30:14

36:24

40:59

  • Object Computed Property Name

43:42

  • Object Method Syntax

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