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This was true in the lodash and jquery as essential days, but hasn't been the case for years. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference

This was true in the lodash and jquery as essential days, but hasn't been the case for years. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Map https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Set https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

ForTheKidz 2y ago
Ah, I stand corrected. I have more recent examples but I struggle to recall them. Map and Set were certainly the two largest absences I remember.
- stank345 2y ago
  Yeah, those were two big sticking points. There's also Object.groupBy() now which was another thing I always missed from the standard library. Proposals tend to get adopted at a snail's place but it's neat to see what's coming down the pike: https://github.com/tc39/proposals https://github.com/tc39/proposals
- runako 2y ago
  Worth noting that those features were indeed added after the creation of e.g. React, but both have been widely available for ~10 years now.
romellem 2y ago
> hasn't been the case for years For 10 years, actually. ES6 - otherwise known as ECMAScript 2015 - did in fact come out 10 years ago. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th_Edition_%E2%80%93_ECMAScript_2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th... It truly did improve the JS landscape by an order of magnitude. For those unfamiliar with the extensive features this brought to JS, here is a good list: - https://rse.github.io/es6-features/ https://rse.github.io/es6-features/
- everybodyknows 2y ago
  ES6 modules make it straightforward to reform great piles of unstructured JS hackery into hierarchical dependency-controlled units for which you can actually reliably draw a block diagram. Hmm, or maybe get Claude to draw it for you ...

ForTheKidz 2y ago

Ah, I stand corrected. I have more recent examples but I struggle to recall them. Map and Set were certainly the two largest absences I remember.

stank345 2y ago
Yeah, those were two big sticking points. There's also Object.groupBy() now which was another thing I always missed from the standard library. Proposals tend to get adopted at a snail's place but it's neat to see what's coming down the pike: https://github.com/tc39/proposals https://github.com/tc39/proposals
runako 2y ago
Worth noting that those features were indeed added after the creation of e.g. React, but both have been widely available for ~10 years now.

romellem 2y ago

> hasn't been the case for years For 10 years, actually. ES6 - otherwise known as ECMAScript 2015 - did in fact come out 10 years ago. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th_Edition_%E2%80%93_ECMAScript_2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th... It truly did improve the JS landscape by an order of magnitude. For those unfamiliar with the extensive features this brought to JS, here is a good list: - https://rse.github.io/es6-features/ https://rse.github.io/es6-features/

everybodyknows 2y ago
ES6 modules make it straightforward to reform great piles of unstructured JS hackery into hierarchical dependency-controlled units for which you can actually reliably draw a block diagram. Hmm, or maybe get Claude to draw it for you ...