Ask HN: What are the most interesting things happening right now in JavaScript?
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As an experiment I created a framework called JEEP. You might find it interesting. https://github.com/vinayms2017/JEEP2018
Our roundup of 2018 might help get some context for this: https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/417
The fact that the language and ecosystem are maturing. It's less about the new shiny thing and more about incremental improvements on proven libraries/paradigms.
TypeScript and WebAssembly.
NodeJS v11.6 was only released about 2 weeks ago
For example, SmooshGate: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate
For something more recent and ongoing, private class fields: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields