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by pritambarhate 3689 days ago
I think ES-6 requires a lot of tooling support (because you need to support older browsers too) so it can be very complicated to set up for a new comer. If "learning React" is not your goal then I think learning, Prototype Based Object Oriented JavaScript, jQuery and Backbone.js can help you make almost any type of web application.

I think learning core ES-5 JS is important, for anybody who wants to learn ES-6.

Once you have done couple of applications with this stack, I think gradually picking up Babel and Gulp like tools and React wouldn't be that hard.