es6 Archives - Jeff Everhart

ES 6 Features for Google Apps Script: Template Literals

Google recently announced that it is bringing the V8 JavaScript runtime to the Google Apps Script environment, and the community, myself included, reacted with much enthusiasm. This is amazing! https://t.co/Qmbb0MIugx — Jeff Everhart (@J_Everhart383) February 6, 2020 There are a lot of things to be excited about with this new change, but I also realized […]

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The Future of JavaScript and the Browser

I’ve been doing a deep dive into Vanilla JavaScript lately, partly as a pretty overt reaction to the proliferation of client-side MV* frameworks. My thought process is that the time spent learning frameworks isn’t necessarily transferrable beyond some of the high-level concepts they help you solve, things like routing, data-binding, and dependency injection. But, once […]

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