Ask HN: What are the most interesting things happening right now in JavaScript?

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Post by filipoi » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:15 PM UTC

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Post by otras » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

Watching how the language grows can be very interesting. I highly recommend taking a look at TC39 proposals and the process.

For example, SmooshGate: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate

For something more recent and ongoing, private class fields: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields

Re: Ask HN: What are the most interesting things happening right now in JavaScript?

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Post by vinayms » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

As an experiment I created a framework called JEEP. You might find it interesting. https://github.com/vinayms2017/JEEP2018

Re: Ask HN: What are the most interesting things happening right now in JavaScript?

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Post by darpa_escapee » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 7:20 PM UTC

The fact that the language and ecosystem are maturing. It's less about the new shiny thing and more about incremental improvements on proven libraries/paradigms.

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Post by theSealedTanker » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 8:10 AM UTC

TypeScript and WebAssembly.

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Post by thedevindevops » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 12:20 PM UTC

NodeJS v11.6 was only released about 2 weeks ago

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 3:02 PM UTC

Our roundup of 2018 might help get some context for this: https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/417