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…
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…
#452 — September 1, 2022 Read on the Web Tinybench: A Tiny and Simple Benchmarking Library — No dependencies, but uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. 1process.hrtime ). You can then benchmark whatever functions you want, specify how long or how many times to benchmark for, and get Read more…
#451 — August 25, 2022 Read on the Web Crawlee: A New Web Scraping / Automation Library — It’s always neat to see a new project launched with some fanfare. Crawlee gets a ▶️ 3-minute introductory screencast, a launch post, and a nice homepage. It builds on top of things Read more…
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…
