Changes are in the offing for the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, with plans afoot to make it easier to import NPM packages and to enable most of them to work in Deno. The project’s developers also aim to make Deno the fastest JavaScript runtime. In a blog post on August 15, Read more…
#450 — August 11, 2022 Read on the Web ☀️ We’re taking a week off for a brief summer vacation and will be back on August 25, so when you don’t get an issue of Node Weekly next week, it’s our fault, not yours 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor. How To Read more…
In this article, you’ll learn about Node.js and Deno, the differences between CommonJS and ECMAScript modules, using TypeScript with Deno, and faster deployments with Deno Deploy. We’ll conclude with notes to help you decide between using Node.js or Deno for your next development project. What is Node.js? Node.js is a Read more…
JavaScript is used for many different kinds of applications today. Most often, it works with HTML5 and CSS to build web front ends. But JavaScript also helps build mobile applications, and it has found an important place on the back end in the form of Node.js servers. Fortunately, JavaScript development Read more…
JavaScript programmers have many good tools to choose from—almost too many to keep track of. In this article, I discuss 10 text editors with good support for developing with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS, and for documenting with Markdown. Why use an editor for JavaScript programming instead of an IDE? In Read more…
#449 — August 4, 2022 Read on the Web Introducing the New npm Dependency Selector Syntax — Another week, another new 1npm command! 1npm query is a new top-level command (as of npm v8.16.0) that lets you query and filter the dependencies of your project with a CSS-like dependency selector Read more…
#448 — July 28, 2022 Read on the Web Introducing Even More Security Enhancements to npm — GitHub continues to up npm’s security game with enhancements that affect most of us in some way or another. There’s a streamlined login and publishing experience with the npm CLI, you can connect Read more…
A recent upgrade to Deno, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime positioned as a rival to Node.js, improves performance for transpiling, type checking, and more, proponents say. Prior to the Deno 1.24 release, Deno internally converted TypeScript code to JavaScript using the TypeScript compiler when the 1–check flag was specified; otherwise, it used Read more…
#447 — July 21, 2022 Read on the Web Working with File System Paths — Dr. Axel puts on his scuba gear and resumes his deep dive into Node with a look at ways to manipulate file system paths using core packages, including taking into account differences between Windows and Read more…
#446 — July 14, 2022 Read on the Web Custom ESM Loaders: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How? — That’s a lot of questions! Custom loaders aren’t necessarily something you’ll use directly a lot, but are useful behind the scenes for controlling how modules are loaded – this post shows Read more…
