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Is Anyone Still Using Polyfills in 2026?

calendar_today June 17, 2026 person OpenReplay Team domain openreplay

The article argues most JavaScript features that once required polyfills now have broad browser support, noting Array.flat, Object.entries, and fetch reach 94-96% of users globally. It advises auditing bundlers with browserslist and source-map-explorer, removing inherited polyfill config, and self-hosting any genuinely needed polyfills rather than loading from third-party CDNs after the 2024 polyfill.io supply-chain incident, with Decorators and Temporal cited as remaining exceptions.

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