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Is there any reason to use the “var” keyword in ES6?
Babel's guide to ES6 says:
let is the new var.
Apparently the only difference is that var gets scoped to the current function, while let gets scoped to the current block. There are some good ...
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How can 'yield' be added as a keyword in ES6 if it wasn't a reserved word?
yield is not a reserved word in JavaScript, yet ES6 makes it a keyword.
I thought the point of reserved words was for backwards compatibility. For example, let and const were reserved, so you ...
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Does ES6 help grow the Ecmascript standard library?
With all the noise about EC6, one thing that I realized I haven't heard about is expanding Javascript's standard library. Javascript has a fairly sparse standard library. You need a 3rd party library ...
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Web components and performance
I am having trouble learning about the impact of web components and shadow DOM on the browser, specifically related to repaint.
I remember reading at one point that the shadow DOM nodes have ...
