ES2021 Features!

• Logical Assignment Operators (&&= ||= ??=)
• Numeric Separators (1_000)
• Promise.any & AggregateError
• String.prototype.replaceAll
• WeakRefs & FinalizationRegistry Objects

Logical Assignment Operators

Logical Assignment Operators 📖.

//"Or Or Equals"
x ||= y;
x || (x = y);

// "And And Equals"
x &&= y;
x && (x = y);

// "QQ Equals"
x ??= y;
x ?? (x = y);

const updateID = user => {

  // We can do this
  if (!user.id) user.id = 1

  // Or this
  user.id = user.id || 1

  // Or use logical assignment operator.
  user.id ||= 1
}

function setOpts(opts) {
  opts.cat ??= 'meow'
  opts.dog ??= 'bow';
}

setOpts({ cat: 'meow' })

Numeric Separators

Visual separation between groups of digits 📖

1_000_000_000           // Ah, so a billion
101_475_938.38          // And this is hundreds of millions

let fee = 123_00;       // $123 (12300 cents, apparently)
let fee = 12_300;       // $12,300 (woah, that fee!)
let amount = 12345_00;  // 12,345 (1234500 cents, apparently)
let amount = 123_4500;  // 123.45 (4-fixed financial)
let amount = 1_234_500; // 1,234,500

0.000_001 // 1 millionth
1e10_000  // 10^10000 -- granted, far less useful / in-range...
0xA0_B0_C0;

Promise.any and AggregateError

Promise.any + AggregateError 📖

Promise.any([
  fetch('https://v8.dev/').then(() => 'home'),
  fetch('https://v8.dev/blog').then(() => 'blog'),
  fetch('https://v8.dev/docs').then(() => 'docs')
]).then((first) => {
  // Any of the promises was fulfilled.
  console.log(first);
  // → 'home'
}).catch((error) => {
  // All of the promises were rejected.
  console.log(error);
});

^ In the above example error is an AggregateError

String.prototype.replaceAll

replaceAll 📖

// String.prototype.replaceAll(searchValue, replaceValue)

'x'.replace('', '_');
// → '_x'

'xxx'.replace(/(?:)/g, '_');
// → '_x_x_x_'

'xxx'.replaceAll('', '_');
// → '_x_x_x_'

WeakRefs and FinalizationRegistry Objects

WeakRefs and FinalizationRegistry 📖

let target = {};
let wr = new WeakRef(target);

//wr and target aren't the same


// Creating a new registry
const registry = new FinalizationRegistry(heldValue => {
  // ....
});

registry.register(myObject, "some value", myObject);
// ...some time later, if you don't care about `myObject` anymore...
registry.unregister(myObject);