In this blog post, I would like to introduce the JavaScript Binary AST, an ongoing project that we hope will help make webpages load faster, along with a number of other benefits. A little background Over the years, JavaScript has grown from one of the slowest scripting languages available to a high-performance powerhouse, fast enough that it can run desktop, server, mobile and even embedded applications, whether through web browsers or other environments.
Decorators are helpful for anything you want to transparently wrap with extra functionality. These include memoization, enforcing access control and authentication, instrumentation and timing functions, logging, rate-limiting, and the list goes on.
Following the original JavaScript hacks for hipsters, here’s some new goodies. Coding JavaScript in 2018 is actually fun again! Once again, Array Destructuring is great. Combined with async/await and…