Faraz is a professional JavaScript developer who is passionate about moving the web forward and promoting patterns and ideas that will make development more productive. He regularly writes about JavaScript, web development, and best practices.
In JavaScript, the Number type cannot safely represent integer values larger than 253. This limitation has forced developers to use inefficient workarounds and third-party libraries. BigInt is a new data type intended to fix that. In this article, Faraz Kelhini will take a good look at BigInt and see how it can help overcome the limitations of the Number type in JavaScript.
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Regular expressions have been part of the JavaScript language since the third edition of the ECMAScript standard, which was introduced in 1999. ECMAScript 2018 (or ES2018 for short) is the ninth edition of the standard and further improves the text processing capability of JavaScript. If you have ever done any sort of sophisticated text processing and manipulation in JavaScript, you’ll appreciate the new features introduced in ES2018. In this article, Faraz Kelhini is going to take a good look at how the ninth edition of the standard improves the text processing capability of JavaScript.
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ECMAScript 6 has brought hundreds of small and big improvements to JavaScript. More and more, developers are using ECMAScript 6 features, and soon these features will be unavoidable. In this tutorial, Faraz Kelhini will explore arguments and parameters in detail and see how ECMAScript 6 has upgraded them.
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