【JavaScript Weekly】#471 — JANUARY 17, 2020

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#471 — JANUARY 17, 2020

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Babel 7.8.0 Released — The popular JavaScript transpiler now supports ECMAScript 2020 features by default with no plugins needed for nullish coalescing (??), optional chaining (?.) and dynamic import(). Work is also underway on Babel 8 with two upcoming issues outlined in this post too.

NICOLÒ RIBAUDO

Goodbye, Clean Code — Much as Donald Knuth warned us away from premature optimization, here React expert Dan Abramov tells us to beware of premature refactoring and de-duplication. A well put and interesting argument you might appreciate here.

DAN ABRAMOV

Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1500 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes.

BUILDKITE SPONSOR

Native Web Components Come to Microsoft Edge — As featured in our Frontend Focus newsletter earlier this week, Microsoft’s Chromium-based version of Edge is now out and this also means “all major evergreen browsers now support Web Components natively.”

POLYMER PROJECT

What to Pay JavaScript Developers in 2020? — I think this is one of those “how long is a piece of string?” type questions but nonetheless Eric Elliott has brought together a variety of interesting stats.

ERIC ELLIOTT

The ECMAScript Archives — A collection of documents spanning from 1996 to 2015 relating to the activities of Ecma TC39 as the standards behind JavaScript were crafted over the years. Useful? Not really. Interesting? Depends how much of a geek you are, but the “issues list” in the first TC39 meeting’s minutes is kinda fun. “Why reserve Java keywords?”.. quite!

ECMA

Announcing TypeScript 3.8 Beta — Type-Only imports and export, top-level await and ECMAScript Private Fields all.. await you :-) TypeScript has a way of dropping a final release just after we publish, so watch this space!

DANIEL ROSENWASSER (MICROSOFT)