Updates from the 94th TC39 meeting
There were several items on the agenda, this post focuses on feature proposals and their progress...
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - eslint
Linting is the act of finding patterns in code that could lead to mistakes or ensure a consistent reading experience. It's a core piece of many JavaScript/TypeScript projects. We found lots of potential for time savings in their selector engine and AST conversion process and a perfect linter written in JS would be able to hit sub-second run times.
Deno 1.30: Built-in Node modules
Deno 1.30 supports built-in Node modules, deno.json is an import map, deno fmt can format without semicolons, and more...
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - module resolution
Whether you’re building, testing and/or linting JavaScript, module resolution is always at the heart of everything. Despite its central place in our tools, not much time has been spent on making that aspect fast. With the changes discussed in this blog post tools can be sped up by as much as 30%.
Safer URL reading and writing in modern JavaScript
Creating and manipulating URLs as strings may seem safe, until common mistakes add up.
But modern JavaScript has a solution for this, the URL Constructor, that makes reading, writing, and modifying URLs safer and cleaner
Axel Rauschmayer
