diff --git a/syntax/javascript.nanorc b/syntax/javascript.nanorc
index f6a541525845d159a746f6c93953bf9cfc2ed962..4324450d25dfa79af6ad121e8356aaed44679ce1 100644
--- a/syntax/javascript.nanorc
+++ b/syntax/javascript.nanorc
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ syntax "javascript" "\.js$"
 comment "//"
 
 color brightred "\<[A-Z_][0-9A-Z_]+\>"
-color green "\<(const|function|let|this|typeof|var|void)\>"
+color green "\<(async|class|const|extends|function|let|this|typeof|var|void)\>"
 color brightyellow "\<(for|if|while|with|do|else|case|default|switch)\>"
-color brightyellow "\<(export|try|throw|catch|new|delete)\>"
+color brightyellow "\<(await|export|import|try|throw|catch|new|delete)\>"
 color magenta "\<(continue|break|return|yield)\>"
 color brightmagenta "'([^'\]|(\\["'abfnrtv\\]))'" "'\\(([0-3]?[0-7]{1,2}))'" "'\\x[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2}'"
 
 # Strings.
-color brightyellow "<[^= 	]*>" ""(\\.|[^"])*"" "'(\\.|[^'])*'"
+color brightyellow "<[^= 	]*>" ""(\\.|[^"])*"" "'(\\.|[^'])*'" "`(\\.|[^`])*`"
 # Comments.
 color brightblue "//.*"
 color brightblue start="/\*" end="\*/"