This is a quick one already discussed during my recent workshop in Warsaw, a concept rarely considered or adopted from JS developers. What Are Polyfills If we are updated enough to know ECMAScript 5th Edition, we probably know all possible shims and fallbacks for Array extras as well (e.g. Array.prototype.forEach ). Polyfills are simply snippets able to bring features already available for most recent browsers into those not updated yet. Why Polyfills If we develop with present and future in mind, we can take advantage of most recent techniques and solutions in order to both speed up via native support, where available, and maintain our application just stripping out code once all target browsers support them natively ... isn't this cool ?! Polyfills Side Effects The most common side effect of a polyfill is performances impact . The Array::forEach is already a good example of decreased performances. If we think about a forEach, it's nothing different than a classic for loop , e...
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