proposal-array-grouping VS just

Global iterator type is coming: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers

But a method named `groupBy` on iterators traditionally means a different thing: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping/issues/51#is...

Global iterable type it's too late for, since there's many extant iterables in the language and on the web which don't have it in their prototype chain and can't reasonably be changed.

Array grouping to combine like data into groups using Object.groupBy() and Map.groupBy().

Array Grouping: A proposal to make grouping of array items easier.

They are coming out with array.group() soon, which is supposed to also fulfil the use-case of partitioning :) - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping for those curious

I'm also looking forward to map.emplace() and arr.group() and iterator helpers.

At the end of the day, it comes down to whether browser vendors are willing to ship the feature even though it breaks said websites, and they do have visitor data to back those decisions. If the rule was "never break any website ever", you'd be able to block proposals you don't personally like by crafting a website that "gets broken" by that proposal.

At least in the array grouping proposal, they did evaluate amount and popularity of possibly breaking sites, before eventually renaming the method from .groupBy to .group

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping/issues/37

The proposal is described here.

Remarkably, this is now a TC39 proposal.

Proposal, Polyfill

just-diff

You can roll your own or use a utility library. A simple zero-dependency library would be something like just-group-by [1]. Although I now prefer remeda [2] as it seems to have the best typescript support, especially the strict variants such as `grouBy.strict`.

[1] https://github.com/angus-c/just#just-group-by

Tree-shaking doesn't help much when the tree-shaken implementation is so bloated.

Here's the one you referenced, lodash.chunk: https://unpkg.com/lodash.chunk – 140 lines after removing comments and whitespace.

That's pretty small compared to a lot of the lodash utilities. Try spot-checking a few on unpkg.

I prefer angus's `just` utilities: https://github.com/angus-c/just

I absolutely love this. When I need some Lodash alternative I'll usually reference angus-c/just but I am definitely bookmarking this for next time.

The just set of utility functions are really nice to use. https://github.com/angus-c/just

Just doesn't have everything but it's pretty good

One of my favourite "libraries" are the "just" packages, where each part of the library is it's own simple package with zero dependencies (https://github.com/angus-c/just) so you essentially just npm install the specific thing you want - which is generally a single function.

If the code should, as you say, be 5 lines, why take on a dependency at all? By doing so, you end up with a catch-all solution that does almost nothing other than JSON.stringify your args, which is extremely poorly optimized to handle many situations, e.g. one of your args is a primitive and the other is a large config object.