Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

GordonS wrote: post #3

keketi wrote: post #2

But can it left pad a string?

JavaScript has come a long way in recent years, but the lack of a comprehensive standard library is still absolutely mind boggling.

This is really pretty sad. A standard library is paramount to a stable and easy to develop ecosystem.

Re: Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

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Post by hombre_fatal » Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 12:42 AM UTC

emilfihlman wrote: post #8

GordonS wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JavaScript has come a long way in recent years, but the lack of a comprehensive standard library is still absolutely mind boggling.

This is really pretty sad. A standard library is paramount to a stable and easy to develop ecosystem.

It may be, but this is a weird thread to bring that up since Javascript has padStart, and TFA is about building a web server with only the standard library.

Re: Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

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Post by paulddraper » Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 1:16 AM UTC

GordonS wrote: post #3

keketi wrote: post #2

But can it left pad a string?

JavaScript has come a long way in recent years, but the lack of a comprehensive standard library is still absolutely mind boggling.

JavaScript's standard library has a fair amount.

Not Python levels of completeness, but near Java levels.

The parent's example is String.prototype.padStart() [1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...