--- title: "TC39 approves the ES2020 spec, but what's in it?" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 482 published_at: "2020-04-03" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/482" --- And more JavaScript links, tutorials, and projects. #482 — April 3, 2020 [Unsubscribe](https://javascriptweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*):[Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/482) JavaScript Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1585933070/edsaeo35ntxawleotloi.jpg)](https://2ality.com/2019/12/ecmascript-2020.html) [ECMAScript 2020: The Final Feature Set](https://2ality.com/2019/12/ecmascript-2020.html) — TC39 has just approved the [ECMAScript 2020 spec](https://tc39.es/ecma262/2020/) _(a full weekend's bedtime reading right there!)_ with Ecma GA approval due in a few months, but what’s new? Dr. Axel rounds it up with links to the included stage 4 proposals. If you prefer something more code-driven, Pawel Grzybek has [a similar roundup.](https://pawelgrzybek.com/whats-new-in-ecmascript-2020/) Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [TypeScript 3.9 Beta Released](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-9-beta/) — 3.9’s focus is on “performance, polish, and stability” with the most significant change you’re likely to notice being faster compile times. Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft) [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/dcfc0cbe.png)](https://blog.heroku.com/building-with-web-components) [Building with Web Components](https://blog.heroku.com/building-with-web-components) — Web components seek to tilt the balance of web development back towards a standard that has been agreed upon by browser vendors and developers. Explore the history and current state of web components in front-end development. Heroku sponsor [Perflink: Low Friction JS Benchmarks You Can Share via URL](https://perf.link/) — Version 2 just launched, [details here](https://twitter.com/lukejacksonn/status/1245386330978373633). Tests now run isolated in web workers, ability to save and fork to/from local storage, works cross-browser, and more. luke jackson [Rendering Charts with OffscreenCanvas](https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/03/19/offscreen-canvas.html) — Rendering charts can be an intensive operation for browsers, but what if you could delegate such work to a Web Worker? This post looks at what performance improvements you can realistically expect. 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Leanpub Frontmatter podcast [An Introduction to Lambda Calculus, Explained Through JavaScript](http://willtaylor.blog/an-introduction-to-lambda-calculus-explained-through-javascript/) Will Taylor [AppSignal Now Supports Node.js: Roadmap for the Coming Weeks](https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/01/appsignal-now-supports-node-roadmap-for-the-coming-weeks.html?utm_source=JS-newsletter-sponsored&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=node-announcement&utm_content=brief-link) AppSignal sponsor ▶[How to Sing a Song with the Speech Synthesis API and `async`/`await`](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJh9vr5pj4) — A fun little project if you want to play along. Jad Joubran [JavaScript Logical Operators](https://www.prestonlamb.com/blog/javascript-logical-operators) — Covers ||, &&, and !. Part of Preston’s series on JavaScript fundamentals, so probably not a lot here for advanced devs, but there might be a few tidbits in here for everyone. 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From the folks at Shutterstock, who we use for all of our stock art and graphics :-) Shutterstock [Trianglify: Algorithmically Generated Triangle Art](https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify) — At first this sounds a bit like a meaningless experiment but generating such backgrounds can be a great way to bring some flavor to pages and apps. Quinn Rohlf [Retool: Build Internal Tools a Lot Faster, with Less Maintenance](https://retool.com?utm_source=jsweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=apr_3&utm_content=faster_features) — UI building blocks connect to any DB and API. Hackable by design — use JavaScript anywhere and query JSON with SQL. Retool sponsor [Plotly.js: A Charting Library Built on D3 and Stack.gl](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js) — Amazingly, we last featured Plotly.js _5 years ago_ when it first launched, and now it has 11K stars but continues to pop out frequent new releases, like this week’s 1.53.0. Plotly [simdjson 0.3: The Fastest JSON Parser in The World](https://lemire.me/blog/2020/03/31/we-released-simdjson-0-3-the-fastest-json-parser-in-the-world-is-even-better/) — An open source C++ library (sorry, it’s not JavaScript!) with one goal: parse JSON documents very fast (like 3 gigabytes per second fast.) Daniel Lemire [Clack: A Modern Keyboard Shortcut Library Written in TypeScript](https://github.com/reasonink/clack) — Looks like a fairly intuitive and simple API and also has a [React version](https://github.com/reasonink/clack-react). ReasonInk [TypeScript2Cxx: A TypeScript to C++ Transpiler](https://github.com/ASDAlexander77/TypeScript2Cxx) — [ts2cpp](https://github.com/yakir22/ts2cpp) was another project in this vein. Alex D ![](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/yvh5yt5lgwwyoavgobs4.jpg) [A React-Powered HTML5 Raycasting Demo](https://github.com/ahuth/raycast) — Very simple visually but it’s interesting how React was used for this. [Play with it here](https://ahuth.github.io/raycast/). Andrew X [Bungholio: Get Alerts When Products Become Available on Amazon](https://github.com/johntitus/bungholio) — Sorry, I just _had_ to include something lighthearted this week, and as a prolific MTV watcher in the 90s, the name got me.. John Titus 📮 Introducing JAMstacked.. [![\](https://jamstack.email/images/jamlogo.png)](https://jamstack.email/?utm_source=jsw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cross-promo&utm_content=482) It's not often we launch a new newsletter, but [JAMstacked](https://jamstack.email/?utm_source=jsw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cross-promo&utm_content=482) is a new email digest from us covering the JavaScript, API, and Markup (i.e. [JAMstack](https://jamstack.org/)) movement. 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