JavaScript Frameworks for Modern Web Development: The Essential Frameworks, Libraries, and Tools to Learn Right Now

© Sufyan bin Uzayr, Nicholas Cloud, Tim Ambler 2019

S. bin Uzayr et al.JavaScript Frameworks for Modern Web Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4995-6_12

12. Underscore and Lodash

Sufyan bin Uzayr¹ , Nicholas Cloud² and Tim Ambler³

(1)

Al Manama, United Arab Emirates

(2)

Florissant, MO, USA

(3)

Nashville, TN, USA

 

You must be the kind of [person] who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

—Ayn Rand

JavaScript is a pragmatic utility language, useful in no small part because of its simple APIs and sparse type system. It is an easy language to learn and master because its surface area is so small. And while this characteristic lends itself nicely to productivity, sadly it means that ...