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Moving to ES6 from CoffeeScript

I fell in love with CoffeeScript a couple of years ago. Javascript has always seemed something of an interesting curiosity to me and I was happy to see the meteoric rise of Node.js, but coming from a background of Python I really preferred a cleaner syntax.

In any fast moving community it is inevitable that things will change, and so today we see a big shift toward ES6, the new version of Javascript. It incorporates a handful of the nicer features from CoffeeScript and is usable today through tools like Babel. Here are some of my thoughts and issues on moving away from CoffeeScript in favor of ES6.

While reading I suggest keeping open a tab to Babel's learning ES6 page. The examples there are great.

Punctuation

Holy punctuation, Batman! Say goodbye to your whitespace and hello to parenthesis, curly braces, and semicolons again. Even with the advanced ES6 syntax you'll find yourself writing a lot more punctuatio

Remove MySQL completely

Open the Terminal
Use mysqldump to backup your databases
Check for MySQL processes with: ps -ax | grep mysql
Stop and kill any MySQL processes
Analyze MySQL on HomeBrew:
```
brew remove mysql
```

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	import React from 'react'

	/**
	* @typedef {object} State The state of asynchronous hooks.
	* @property {object \| null} error The error.
	* @property {boolean} pending Whether the call is pending.
	* @property {any \| null} result The result of the asynchronous call.
	*/

	/** @type {State} */

	version: 2
	jobs:
	build:
	working_directory: ~/app
	docker:
	- image: circleci/node:8.7-browsers
	environment:
	NODE_ENV: production
	steps:
	- checkout

	angular.module('app', ['ngRoute', 'app.core', 'app.user', 'app.settings'])
	.config(function($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
	$routeProvider.when('/home', {
	templateUrl: 'partials/home.html',
	controller: 'HomeCtrl'
	});

	//Handle all exceptions
	$routeProvider.otherwise({
	redirectTo: '/home'

	$('div.modal').on('show', function() {
	var modal = this;
	var hash = modal.id;
	window.location.hash = hash;
	window.onhashchange = function() {
	if (!location.hash){
	$(modal).modal('hide');
	}
	}
	});

	/*
	Infinite List View

	creates <ul> with triggers for infinite scrolling

	@author Kevin Jantzer, Blacktone Audio Inc.
	@since 2012-11-06


	USE - listen for:

	From http://linux.die.net/man/3/strftime

	%a - The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'')
	%A - The full weekday name (``Sunday'')
	%b - The abbreviated month name (``Jan'')
	%B - The full month name (``January'')
	%c - The preferred local date and time representation
	%d - Day of the month (01..31)
	%e - Day of the month without leading 0 (1..31)
	%g - Year in YY (00-99)

	initialize: ->
	@bind 'all', @_trackPageview

	_trackPageview: ->
	url = Backbone.history.getFragment()
	_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', "/#{url}"])