🌐 Frontend & Web

Lodash Is Dead — Wake Up to These 5 JS Built-ins Slimming Your Code Right Now

State of JS 2023: 62% of respondents still install lodash weekly. Meanwhile, browsers shipped fixes years ago. Time to evict the dead weight.

Code snippet showing structuredClone replacing JSON.parse stringify in JavaScript

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Swap JSON hacks for structuredClone — handles Dates/Maps without bugs. 𝕏
  • Object.groupBy kills lodash.groupby, slashes bundle size instantly. 𝕏
  • AbortController + Array.at modernize fetches and arrays with zero cost. 𝕏
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