Statement
/ˈsteɪt.mənt/
noun — "a single instruction your code politely issues to the computer."
Statement is a fundamental unit of programming that expresses an action to be performed by the computer. Statements are the building blocks of code, defining operations like assignments, loops, conditionals, function calls, and declarations. Properly structured statements follow the syntax rules of the language to execute correctly.
Technically, Statement involves:
Await
/əˈweɪt/
verb … “to pause execution until an asynchronous operation produces a result.”
Promise
/ˈprɒmɪs/
noun … “a construct that represents the eventual completion or failure of an asynchronous operation.”
Two's Complement
/tuːz ˈkɒmplɪˌmɛnt/
noun … “the standard method for representing signed integers in binary.”
ECMAScript 2015
/ˌiː-es-sɪks/
n. “The 6th edition of the ECMAScript standard, introducing modern features for JavaScript.”
ES6, also known as ECMAScript 2015, is a major update to the JavaScript language standard. It introduced new syntax, APIs, and programming patterns that significantly improved code readability, modularity, and maintainability.
Key features of ES6 include:
JSX
/ˈdʒeɪ-ɛs-ɛks/
n. “Write HTML inside JavaScript, without the browser complaining.”
JSX, short for JavaScript XML, is a syntax extension for JavaScript commonly used with React. It allows developers to write HTML-like markup directly within JavaScript code, which is then transformed into standard JavaScript calls by a compiler like Babel. This makes building UI components more intuitive and declarative.
Key aspects of JSX include: