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I’m always really excited to see new methods on JavaScript primitives. These additions are acknowledgement that the language needs to evolve and that we’re doing exciting new things. That being said, I somehow just discovered some legacy String methods that you probably shouldn’t use but have existed forever. Let’s take a look! These legacy string methods take a basic string of text and wrap it in a HTML tag of the same name: "Hello".big() // "<big>Hello</big>" "Hello".blink() // "<blink>Hello</blink>" "Hello".bold() // "<b>Hello</b>" "Hello".italics() // "<i>Hello</i>" "Hello".link("https://davidwalsh.name") // "<a... more →