A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019

A new version of JavaScript has landed!

Every year JavaScript gets a handful of new features and functions for everyone to play with.

The TC39 committee have released the 2019 additions to ECMAScript, which is the generally accepted version of JavaScript we all know and love tolerate.

You can take a look at the TC39 Github to track the progress of proposed features, including all the ones they've accepted into the official language.

I drew up my own notes on the 7 big changes below:

• Optional Catch Binding
• Stable array.sort()
• Flatten Arrays with flat()
• Flatten & Map Arrays with flatMap()
• Cut out Whitespace with trimStart() & trimEnd()
• Descriptions on Symbols
• Create Objects from Entries with fromEntries()

These notes are all based off Mike Sherov's egghead course on Javascript ES2019 in Practice which is a good summary of all the new shiny bits, as well as how they apply in IRL dev situations.

Want more illustrated notes on web development?

Take a look at JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around, What the Fork is Babel? or JavaScript's ...spread Operator