Cons/Dislikes
- No conventions.
- Not standardized.
- No consistency in online resources.
- Lots of outdated online resources.
- The fact that AirBNB has 20 pages on how to write JavaScript is insane.
- No first class Enums
- Callback hell (work around with Promises,
asyncandawait, but its not supported everywhere) - Inconsisent:
Array.lengthvsSet.size- Like wtf?
- All the problems of a loosely typed language.
- Hard to scale as a language, due to no types.
- Hard to refactor.
- Inconsistencies in coding style amongst the community
- JS Modules are confusing
- Requires high code coverage due to inconsistencies.
- Changing
babelflags can make your code run differently- Requires high code coverage to ensure it does as expected.
- You need tools like
lodashfor basic stuff (bucketing items in in an array,groupBy) - Requires a lot of tooling to maintain JavaScript
- Was design for client side browsing, not server side
- It has both
nullandundefined - No native
sprintf - Browser support is inconsistent.
- I ran into a problem with fetch() not being supported. https://github.com/github/fetch#browser-support
- Requires a lot of static analysis tools.
- flow
What does this return?
"some string".match(/some regex/)
It's an Array with properties of
index and input. Things which increase the JavaScript environments complexity:
- Requiring the use of new features via Babel
- Requiring WebPack to bundle for frontend
- Module systems
- Inconsistent environments
- Browser development, so many browser versions
- Node, webpack vs everything else
Array.flat only works in Node.js 11+Object.values(object) returns an array of valuesarray.values() returns an iteratornew Set(['a', 'b']) == new Set(['b', 'a']); // false
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