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Hasty Treat - Std Lib in JavaScript
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes discuss the Javascript standard library proposal — what it is, how it could influence dev, and what they’d like to see.
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Show Notes 1:38 - What is a Standard Lib?
Still experimental
Built-in modules don’t have to be downloaded because they ship with the browser
Not exposing built-in modules globally has a lot of advantages: They won’t add any overhead to starting up a new JavaScript runtime context (e.g. a new tab, worker, or service worker)
They won’t consume any memory or CPU unless they’re actually imported
They don’t run the risk of naming collisions with other variables defined in your code
6:47 - Key Value Storage is the first one:
KV Storage: the Web’s First Built-in Module
8:36 - What do we want to see?
Deep clone Basically all of Lodash
util.isDeepScrictEqual
Async json.parse() / json.stringify
UUID
URL Lib for building and parsing URLs
Missing Array Methods Most of underscore JS
15:53 - International
Currency Formatting
Lists
DateTimeFormat
RelativeTimeFormat
Links JavaScript Standard Library Proposal
Add remaining Underscore / Lodash features
JavaScript standard library contents
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