🐱 ECMeowScript - What's New in JavaScript Explained with Cats

I realized I never shared this slide deck from my talk in 2020, so I do now! #JavaScript #ESnext

🔗 https://noti.st/girliemac/i41Y9z

@cuboci @wiverson Basically we used to use #Babel to transpile #ES6 (and eventually #typescript) to the ancient version of JS that browsers could understand. That was combined with #Webpack to handle import/require weirdness. Now the world (#svelte) is moving to #swc and #vite since modern browsers can *almost* understand modern (#ESNext) javascript, but it's still all in flux :P

Private class fields in JavaScript are a runtime minefield

https://ar.al/2021/03/09/private-fields-in-javascript-are-a-runtime-minefield/

My post-mortem from yesterday’s Site.js bug that was preventing Let’s Encrypt certificate renewals checks from running.

#ESNext #ECMAScript #JavaScript