--- title: "Using native modules in production today" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 451 published_at: "2019-08-23" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/451" --- This week's JavaScript news #451 — August 23, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/451) JavaScript Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,h_200,c_crop,g_east/v1566575026/fgj13mznzpcah1igrfpt.png)](https://philipwalton.com/articles/using-native-javascript-modules-in-production-today/) [Using Native JavaScript Modules in Production Today](https://philipwalton.com/articles/using-native-javascript-modules-in-production-today/) — _“now, thanks to some recent advances in bundler technology, it’s possible to deploy your production code as ES2015 modules—with both static and dynamic imports—and get better performance than all non-module options currently available.”_ Philip Walton [Web Template Studio 2.0: Generate New Apps from VS Code Wizard-Style](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2019/08/21/growing-web-template-studio/) — Web Template Studio is an extension, from Microsoft, for Visual Studio Code that simplifies creating new full-stack apps in a ‘wizard’-esque style. 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The Software House sponsor ▶[The State of JavaScript Frameworks in August 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ievupll1ng) — Every six months, Tracy Lee sits down with several representatives of different frameworks to get a brief update on how they’re doing. This hour long episode features Evan You (Vue.js), Minko Gechev (Angular), Michael Dawson (Node.js), Jen Weber (Cardstack), Manu Mtz.-Almeida (Ionic) and Marvin Hagemeister (Preact). Tracy Lee [JavaScript to Know for React](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/javascript-to-know-for-react) — Examples of which JavaScript features in particular you should be familiar with when learning and using React. Kent C Dodds [date-fns 2.0: It's Like `lodash` But For Dates](https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns) — A date utility library that provides an extensive and consistent API for manipulating dates, whether in the browser or in Node. 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