✌️ ECMAScript Safe Assignment Operator Proposal

We often feature ECMAScript proposals that are in their later stages, but how about a brand new one you could get involved with? This one proposes an interesting additional bit of language syntax (`?=`) that returns a [error, value] tuple from an assignment.

Arthur Fiorette

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❓ CHALLENGE

const weakMap = new WeakMap();
const obj = {};

(function() {
  const internalObj = {};
  weakMap.set(internalObj, 'hidden');
  obj.ref = internalObj;
})();

delete obj.ref;

const result = weakMap.has(obj.ref);

console.log(result);

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🔥 Google takes its biggest L ever... now a convicted monopolist

Fireship

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❓ CHALLENGE

const weakMap = new WeakMap();
const array = [1, 2, 3];
const obj = {};

weakMap.set(obj, array);

const result = weakMap.get(obj).reduce((acc, val) => acc + val);

console.log(result);

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😆 What about JavaScript?

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❓ CHALLENGE

const weakMap = new WeakMap();
const obj1 = {};
const obj2 = { key: 'value' };

weakMap.set(obj1, obj2);

const result = weakMap.get(obj1).key.split('').reverse().join('');

console.log(result);

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👍 Volta 2.0: Install and Run JavaScript Tools Quickly

A long-standing Rust powered tool for installing and switching JavaScript related tools (like Node, TypeScript, Yarn, etc.) … “no matter the package manager, Node runtime, or OS.” GitHub repo.

Volta

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❓ CHALLENGE

const weakMap = new WeakMap();
const objs = [{}, {}, {}];

objs.forEach((obj, index) => weakMap.set(obj, index + 1));

const result = objs.filter(obj => weakMap.has(obj)).map(obj => weakMap.get(obj) * 2);

console.log(result);

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✌️ JavaScript Weekly #​701

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🌲 Node.js Security release process

Only those who have been involved in a security release process know how hard it is (time-consuming, effort).
We've been working hard to automate most (if not all) of the process and the new security release process is live

Rafael Gonzaga

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❓ CHALLENGE

const obj = {
  a: 1,
  b: 2
};

let a = 10;
let b = 20;

with (obj) {
  a += 1;
  b += 1;
}

console.log(a, obj.a, b, obj.b);

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❓ CHALLENGE

const obj1 = {
  name: "Alice",
  age: 25
};

const obj2 = {
  age: 30,
  city: "Wonderland"
};

with (obj1) {
  with (obj2) {
    name = "Bob";
    console.log(name, age);
  }
}