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# Top 5 Underutilized JavaScript Features

**[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 7 min read · 109 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Explore underutilized JavaScript features such as hooks for detecting malicious websites, generating reports in Node.js, controlling execution flow with generators, improving date management with Temporal, and creating reusable code with high-order functions.

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**@jmpp** · 2 upvotes

> The 4th point "Improved Date Management with Temporal" is totally missing the point. The Temporal API is currently in stage 3 at TC39 and not a standard yet. The "documentation" link given in the article is about a runtime for cloud functions that's called "Temporal", but has nothing to do with the JS Temporal proposal.
> Interesting post, though.

**@ghost** · 1 upvotes

> Looks like written by ChatGPT 3.5.

**@praetoriani** · 0 upvotes

> Interesting post 👍. Recommend reading it

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