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A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases

The proposal “Pipe operator (|>) for JavaScript” (by J. S. Choi, James DiGioia, Ron Buckton and Tab Atkins) introduces a new operator. This operator is an idea borrowed from functional programming that makes applying functions more convenient in many cases.

This blog post describes how the pipe operator works and what its use cases are (there are more than you might expect!).

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If it will make JavaScript codebases easier to understand and maintain, then it is a good new feature.

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