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cutler on Aug 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: TypeScript 3.6

Typescript only solves one of Javascript's two main problems. What really makes JS an abysmal experience is it's lack of a standard library. Compile-to-JS languages are in a unique position to solve this problem so I urge Microsoft to focus on a curated set of reliable libraries which can constitute a stdlib for JS. There are plenty out there already so it shouldn't be difficult.

megaman821 on Aug 29, 2019 [–]

I feel like lodash and date-fns is like 80% of what I want out of a standard library. I mostly use the built-in fetch but Axios is nice too.

I also tend to use js-cookie and uri.js because the browser has horrible APIs for working with cookies and urls.

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