JavaScript classes provide a much simpler and clearer syntax to create objects and deal with inheritance." A StrongLoop blog post echoes the "syntactic sugar" angle. "ECMAScript 2015, formerly known ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful!

Nowhere becomes this more apparent than in aspects like JavaScript’s brilliantly designed Date class, which astounds people to this day with its elegant handling of JavaScript’s powerful type ...