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eliotlandrum14-Alexandrite
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October 8, 2019

Arrow functions, filter, map & reduce! ThingWorx 8.5 supports ES6 functional programming

  • October 8, 2019
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I'm getting up to speed on all the great new stuff in 8.5, and have found that since the JavaScript engine was upgraded to Rhino 1.7.11, there's some awesome new JavaScript ES6 functionality available. I have tested arrow functions, filter, map, and reduce. Compose does not look like it is supported.

 

If you're not familiar with this functionality, I highly recommend reading up on them. Filter, map, and reduce are incredibly useful for working with arrays. They can save you a lot of annoying logic.

 

Here's some resources that I've found helpful for learning:

If you really want to dive into ES6, Wes Bos has incredible tutorial sessions that are worth every penny:

 

Have you played around with ES6 functionality in ThingWorx 8.5 yet?

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    VladimirRosu_11662719-Tanzanite
    19-Tanzanite
    October 8, 2019

    I was on my way to test the ES6 features next week. Thanks for letting us know this!

     

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    eliotlandrum14-AlexandriteAuthor
    14-Alexandrite
    October 8, 2019

    Let me know what else you find... I just manually ran the examples from the first article to see if they worked.

     

    I'm pretty happy to have "let" and "const" as well. I'll be switching my code to using those instead of "var".

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