This is more of a general query rather than about specific code. I am working my way through the Return II tutorial and have been using var and function. In these forums I see a lot of people using let instead of var, and const instead of function. Why is this? It seems that let and const might be a new standard, but if so, why are my tutorials still using the old ones?
let and const where introduced in es6 (released in 2015), they offer a block scope rather then a function scope (var)
there are two Javascript courses:
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-javascript
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/introduction-to-javascript
the last one teaches es6
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Ok thanks for your reply. Should I be working through the introduction to JavaScript course instead then? Or do both?
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I think you should learn es6, if the browser support isn’t enough for your website you can always transpile the code into es5 using webpack.
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