Node.js 15 makes 7 of my packages obsolete. This is a good thing. đź‘Ś
I think it's great that we now get a larger "standard library". The benefit is that many of these things have been proven in user-land/production for years before being added, so we already know they are useful and work.
Some more things I'd like to see in Node.js:
- Fetch
- Web Streams
- Web Crypto
- Globbing
And in JS:
- Promisification of existing APIs
- UUID generation
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-map (with concurrency option)
- Escape regex method
- Better Unicode-aware string handling, like https://github.com/sindresorhus/string-length
- BigDecimal
To be clear, I have no intention of deprecating any of the mentioned packages for a long time. They will be maintained for many years to come. But when projects can target Node.js 16 (15 is not LTS), they can replace these with native which results in a smaller dependency tree.
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