Before I begin, I should probably explain what a JavaScript Promise is. A promise allows you to associate a handle to an asynchronous event which will return either a success (resolve) or failure (reject). A promise is made so that the outward call will return in the future, attaching a then method to your JavaScript […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 4: Promises"Today I am going to introduce you to OOP (Object Oriented Programming) in JavaScript 6. Now, OOP is not a new thing in JavaScript. Achieving OOP in JavaScript can currently be done using Prototype based programming; this doesn’t use classes and instead uses functions to define the classes. For example: JavaScript 6 brings us an […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 3: Object Oriented Programming"Continuing with my series on JavaScript 6 for the C# developer, it’s time to introduce you to the Arrow Function. Arrow functions provide a way to implement lexical scoping of the this keyword. In other words, the variables may only be referenced from within the code block that they are defined. Let’s begin with an […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 2: Arrow functions – lambda expressions in disguise?"C# developers, you may not realise how similar many of the language’s features are to those in the next version of JavaScript. The next version of JavaScript, version 6, has many syntactic feature changes that have been inspired by their equivalents in C#. Lately I’ve been covering a lot of the cultural aspects of a […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 1: How do I iterate?"
Ian Barry 