ECMAScript 6, the latest version of ECMAScript standard, has a host of new features added for JavaScript. Many of the new features are influenced towards making JavaScript syntactically similar to C# and CoffeeScript. Features such as function shorthand are introduced in the form of Arrows =>.

 iterateItemsInCollection() {    this.coll.forEach(f =>     //operate on item f;  } 

Another noticeable feature is the class construct. Classes are based on the prototype-based object oriented pattern and support inheritance methods (static and instance) and constructors.

The most interesting new feature, however, is the introduction of Object.observe(). Note that Object.observe() is going to be available only with ES7.

Object.observe() is touted to be the future of data binding. A new upgrade to the JavaScript API, Object.observe() lets you asynchronously observe changes (adds, updates, deletes) to a JavaScript object. That means you can implement two-way data binding using Object.observe() without using any frameworks (KO, Angular…). Does this mean Object.observe() is set to obliterate frameworks such as Knockout, Angular, Ember? Not really, If it’s just data binding, you can obviously use Object.observe(), but most frameworks today provide more than just data binding (e.g., routing, templates, etc.) and may be inevitable for bigger complex projects.

Object.observe() brings great performance boost over traditional dirty-checking used while implementing data binding. Testimony to this fact is that Angular team has decided to rewrite data binding implementation in Angular 2.0 using Object.observe(). As an API with great promise, Object.observe() is surely going to change a lot in the way we build client apps. You can read more here.