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Published inOct 2022
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781800563681
Edition1st Edition
Languages
JavaScript
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React Native
Concepts
Cross Platform Mobile Development
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Alexander Benedikt Kuttig
Alexander Benedikt Kuttig
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Alexander Benedikt Kuttig

Alexander Benedikt Kuttig has a master's degree in computer science and currently works as a software and app architect. With plenty of industry experience, he has created app architecture for different industries, such as education, sports and fitness, manufacturing, printing, and banking, which have been used by millions of users across the globe. He runs multiple businesses, such as Horizon Alpha, an app development agency, and Teamfit, a digital corporate health platform. He also speaks about his work at different conferences, such as RNEU and the Geekle Cross-Platform Summit, and has a blog on Medium, which he uses to write about the challenges he faces. Alexander is highly experienced as a React Native developer, speaker, and contributor.
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Exploring modern JavaScript

When we speak of modern JavaScript, this refers to ECMAScript 2015 (which also is known as ES6) or newer. It contains a lot of useful features, which are not included in older JavaScript versions. Since 2015 there has been an update to the specification released every year.

You can have a look at the features that were implemented in previous releases in the TC39 GitHub repository (https://bit.ly/prn-js-proposals). You can also find a lot of information about upcoming features and release plans there.

Let’s start our journey to understand the most important parts of JavaScript by having a look under the hood. To truly understand modern JavaScript and the tooling around it, we have to take a little look at the basics and the history of the language. JavaScript is a script language, which can run nearly everywhere.

The most common use case clearly is building dynamic frontends for the web browser, but it also runs on the server (Node.js), as...

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Alexander Benedikt Kuttig

Alexander Benedikt Kuttig has a master's degree in computer science and currently works as a software and app architect. With plenty of industry experience, he has created app architecture for different industries, such as education, sports and fitness, manufacturing, printing, and banking, which have been used by millions of users across the globe. He runs multiple businesses, such as Horizon Alpha, an app development agency, and Teamfit, a digital corporate health platform. He also speaks about his work at different conferences, such as RNEU and the Geekle Cross-Platform Summit, and has a blog on Medium, which he uses to write about the challenges he faces. Alexander is highly experienced as a React Native developer, speaker, and contributor.
Read more about Alexander Benedikt Kuttig