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A brief overview of what’s new in ES2015 and what tools you’ll need to follow along with this course.
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In this course, we're going to review
new features available in ES2015,
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the 6th edition of ECMAScript.
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ES2015 is the largest upgrade to
JavaScript since its creation.
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The language has new data types,
improved utility functions, and
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features to better define
the scope of your code blocks.
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Before we dive in,
let's review some of JavaScript's past.
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In 1995, there was something
called the browser wars.
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Netscape and
Microsoft were going head to head rapidly
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expanding their Web browsers'
capabilities and features.
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