Name: JavaScript: Latest Stage-4 features
Rating: 1.3 (3065 reviews)
Author: hemanth

The below features advanced to stage-4 in the recent TC39 meeting:

Intl.DateTimeFormat: dateStyle & timeStyle
Intl.ListFormat.
Logical Assignment.
Numeric Separators.
Promise.any & AggregateError.
WeakRefs & FinalizationRegistry.

Let us see quick code example for the same:

Intl.DateTimeFormat

This proposal adds two options to Intl.DateTimeFormat: dateStyle and timeStyle

let date = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en" , {
  timeStyle: "medium",
  dateStyle: "short"
});

date.format(Date.now()); // "01.02.2020, 13:30"

// styles: undefined, "full", "long", "medium", or "short"

Intl.ListFormat

This proposal enable language-sensitive list formatting

const lf = new Intl.ListFormat("en", {
    localeMatcher: "best fit", // can be "lookup"
    type: "conjunction", // "conjunction", "disjunction" or "unit"
    style: "long", // other values: "short" or "narrow"
});

lf.format(['Apple', 'Orange' , 'Plum']);
// > "Apple, Orange, and Plum"

/*
  localeMatcher -> "best fit" or "lookup"
  type -> "conjunction", "disjunction" or "unit"
  style -> "long", "short" or "narrow"
*/

Logical Assignment

This proposal allows to combine Logical Operators and Assignment Expressions.

// "Or Or Equals" (or, the Mallet operator :wink:)
a ||= b;
a || (a = b);

// "And And Equals"
a &&= b;
a && (a = b);

// "QQ Equals"
a ??= b;
a ?? (a = b);

Numeric Separators.

This proposal is a merge between proposal-numeric-underscores, to extend the existing NumericLiteral to allow a separator character between digits.

1_000_000_000           // Billion
101_475_938.38          // Hundreds of millions

let fee = 123_00;       // $123 

let hex = 0xA0_B0_C0;

let octal = 0o1234_5670;

Promise.any & AggregateError.

This proposal of Promise.any accepts an iterable of promises and returns a promise that is fulfilled by the first given promise to be fulfilled, or rejected with an AggregateError

try {
  const first = await Promise.any(promises);
  // Any of the promises was fulfilled.
} catch (error) {
  // All of the promises were rejected.
}

const aggregateError = new AggregateError([errA, errB, errC], 'Oops!');

WeakRefs & FinalizationRegistry.

This proposal allows creating weak references to objects with the WeakRef and running user-defined finalizers after objects are garbage-collected, with the FinalizationRegistry class

const makeWeakCached = f => {
  const cache = new Map();
  const cleanup = new FinalizationRegistry(key => {
    const ref = cache.get(key);
    if (ref && !ref.deref()) cache.delete(key);
  });

  return key => {
    const ref = cache.get(key);
    if (ref) {
      const cached = ref.deref();
      // See note below on concurrency considerations.
      if (cached !== undefined) return cached;
    }

    const fresh = f(key);
    cache.set(key, new WeakRef(fresh));
    cleanup.register(fresh, key);
    return fresh;
  };
}

const getImageCached = makeWeakCached(getImage);

Hope you liked the proposals, feel free to comment with your thoughts! 🤓

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@gnumanth