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✌️ Regexes Got Good: The History (and Future) of Regular Expressions in JavaScript

Regular expression support was always a little underwhelming in JS, but things have improved. Steven takes us on a tour to refresh our knowledge, as well as show off his ‘regex’ library that boosts JS regexes to a true A++ rating. Steven was co-author of O’Reilly’s Regular Expressions Cookbook and High Performance JavaScript so knows his stuff.

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