Using ES6/7, create-react-app, and Electron! (JS Party #12)

Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton discuss how they’re using ES6/7 with and without a compiler, updates to create-react-app, and the beloved Electron.

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Featuring:

• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
• Rachel White – GitHub, X
• Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Topics

• Using new JavaScript language features in ES6 and ES7 with and without a compiler
• Updates to create-react-app
• Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Picks

• Webpack 2 (Alex Sexton)
• Immutable data structures for functional JS by Anjana Vakil at JSConf EU 2017 (Rachel White)
• (Book) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Mikeal Rogers)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!