#ES6 (tag)

For the past few months, I have been working at Continuum Analytics and we use TypeScript to build the libraries and widgets of PhosphorJS along with the applications built on top of them. As a long-time JavaScript programmer, here are some of my thoughts about switching to TypeScript.

Here’s how I’m using sed to inline the version field from an npm package.json into my code in an ES6 package. It’s not very exciting, which is probably clear from the exhilarating title.

Here are two examples that demonstrate how to use the new ES6 Symbol primitive to create quasi-private methods and properties.