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jddon ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan

Node will likely end up with multiple ways to disambiguate modules. Until then, you might dig https://npmjs.com/esm. No .mjs required.

jddon ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan

The `esm` loader allows specifying a parse goal pragma as one of several ways to disambiguate source – https://npmjs.com/esm.

Node will likely end up needing more than just an extension to disambiguate as well.

jddon Using ES modules natively in Node.js

I know styfle is aware, but for others, you can unlock named exports of CJS modules with @std/esm:

https://github.com/standard-things/esm

https://medium.com/web-on-the-edge/es-modules-in-node-today-...

jddon Npm v5.1.0 Released

npm5 and 5.1 has improved performance significantly so that it's comparable with yarn.

jddon Ask HW: What is the state (for you) of CoffeeScript?

The TS response makes sense in light of the other issues your desired behavior would cause.

jddon Idx: Easily access deeply nested nullable fields in JavaScript

Naw, Lodash is modular. You can cherry-pick its modules. It's less than 716 bytes (with lodash-webpack-plugin).

jddon Webpack 2, RC 7

You might be able to fix that with something like babel-plugin-lodash which can be ran over your code (and deps) to enforce cherry-picking across the board.

https://github.com/lodash/babel-plugin-lodash

jddon JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017

Not smell just semver – http://semver.org/

jddon JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017

This! Lodash turns 5 in 4 months :)

jddon Dear JavaScript

I dig Babel 6. I'm glad they took the major bump, which allows breaking changes, to improve things.

The major bump means it's opt-in, so folks can continue to use the older version without breaking their workflow.

jddon Dear JavaScript

:clap:

jddon Zaphod: Clojure's API for JavaScript's Data Structures

You might dig lodash-bound – Enables chained lodash functions with ES bind (::) syntax

https://github.com/elado/lodash-bound

jddon Immutable.js: An Introduction with examples written for humans

You might dig mudash – Lodash wrapper providing immutable.js support

https://github.com/brianneisler/mudash

jddon A small dive into, and rejection of, Elm

If you dig immutable, auto-curried, data-last methods there's also lodash/fp modules –

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide

jddon The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development

Yep, as well as outside donations – https://jquery.org/

Every bit helps.

jddon The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development

Creator of Lodash here. From my experience the foundation is a pretty chill, hands off, non-profit. I sought out and voluntarily joined the Dojo Foundation early in Lodash's development (~2013). At the time the Dojo Foundation was the only JS foundation I knew of that was open to outside projects (the jQuery Foundation was really only for jQuery projects back then). Eventually the Dojo Foundation and the jQuery Foundation merged. It was great! Regardless of the name the foundation has proven valuable. Whether it's CLA management, PR bots, conduct reviews, representation at TC39, help with trademarks, licenses, legal, etc. they've always been friendly and more than happy to help. When possible they also hold events to educate and encourage new open source contributors which is pretty cool!

jddon A Simple JavaScript change to reduce your build size

No-trololo: Lodash is modular so you can use cherry-pick the methods you want. There's plugins to make it easier and further reduce bundle sizes.

https://github.com/lodash/babel-plugin-lodash

https://github.com/lodash/lodash-webpack-plugin

jddon Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport

lodash.throttle is a standalone zero-dependency package of just the throttle module. The `lodash` package is a collection of modules one of which is `lodash/throttle`.

You can generally get smaller bundles using `lodash/xyz` modules over the `lodash.xyz` packages because of plugins like:

https://github.com/lodash/babel-plugin-lodash

https://github.com/lodash/lodash-webpack-plugin

Though in the future lodash-webpack-plugin may support `lodash.xyz` packages too.

jddon Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport

No worries, lodash/debounce can be reduced further with babel+webpack plugins.

Assuming the current setup of babel+webpack the difference between your naive version is just ~0.5 kB.

jddon Babili: An ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain

Congrats!

jddon Just: A library of dependency-free JS utilities that do just do one thing

There's no hard requirement for babel-polyfill or babel-runtime.

Babel works great without shims in modern enviros (I don't use shims in my projects).

jddon Just: A library of dependency-free JS utilities that do just do one thing

Neither Rollup nor Webpack 2 will tree-shake Lodash properly. The best option at the moment is babel-plugin-lodash.

jddon Just: A library of dependency-free JS utilities that do just do one thing

BTW there's lodash/fp modules too:

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide

https://simonsmith.io/dipping-a-toe-into-functional-js-with-...

https://medium.com/@jdalton/just-a-heads-up-the-lazy-js-benc...

jddon Just: A library of dependency-free JS utilities that do just do one thing

Lodash v4 reduced the deps of its individual modularized method packages.

It also offers modules inside the primary package now, e.g. require('lodash/chunk').

There's babel and webpack plugins to make cherry-picking and bundle size optimizations a breeze too.

https://github.com/lodash/babel-plugin-lodash

https://github.com/lodash/lodash-webpack-plugin

jddon Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively

Lodash methods handle things like String#match which returns array/null.

More for avoiding guard scaffolding than for undefined behavior.

jddon Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively

You also dig Lodash v4's FP modules

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide

jddon Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively

Webpack 2 or Rollup don't tree-shake Lodash well.

You'll need something like https://github.com/lodash/babel-plugin-lodash.

jddon Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively

Lodash follows semver so major changes are opt-in unlike lang level ones though.

jddon Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively

I donno, Lodash is missing < 90 R apis where as R is missing > 200 Lodash ones.