JavaScript

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

One of the biggest announcements for developers in our Tokyo release is the update to our ECMAScript engine. Today’s guest gives some inside information behind this update. Topics 00:00 Welcome and introduction 05:57 Overview of ECMAScript 2021 09:04 Is this THE ECMAScript 2021? 11:02 Suggesting enhancements 12:35 The global scope 15:42 Where it’s enabled 16:42 The roadmap 21:34 Contact information 22:16 Outro Links LinkedIn JavaScript engine feature support Subscribe to Break Point Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Stitcher TuneIn RSS Check out the other ServiceNow podcasts.

Earl Duque

9 minute read

The biggest request from developers is finally here! That’s right, support for newer versions of ECMAScript has arrived with ServiceNow’s Tokyo Release.

What? How? Looking forward Features! Break Point Live demo const let Scoping rules Hoisting Creating global object property Redeclaration arrow functions for/of map set symbol default params spread template strings/literals destructuring class And more ES Sources What? Prior to the Tokyo Release, ServiceNow’s serverside JavaScript utilized ECMAScript 5.