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JavaScript evolution: From Lodash and Underscore to vanilla

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  1. Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional...
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    Underscore was created by Jeremy Ashkenas (the creator of Backbone.js) in 2009 to provide a set of utility functions that JavaScript lacked at the time. It was also created to work with Backbone.js, but it slowly became a favorite among developers who needed utility functions that they could just call and get stuff done with without having to worry about the inner implementations and browser compatibility.

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  2. Lo-Dash is a drop-in replacement for Underscore.
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    Apart from that, Lodash also provides some additional string utilities like [_.kebabCase](https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#kebabCase)ย and [_.camelCase](https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#camelCase), that convert any string supplied to the particular case styles. There is also a [_.capitalize](https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#capitalize) method that capitalizes the first letter of any string.

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  3. Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events
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    Underscore was created by Jeremy Ashkenas (the creator of Backbone.js) in 2009 to provide a set of utility functions that JavaScript lacked at the time. It was also created to work with Backbone.js, but it slowly became a favorite among developers who needed utility functions that they could just call and get stuff done with without having to worry about the inner implementations and browser compatibility.

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