Ryan Dahl on Deno and the future of JavaScript

#​525 — March 19, 2024

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Bringing

to Node — Joyee writes about landing experimental support for

-ing synchronous ES modules in Node, a feature that has been a long time coming, due to both technical and cultural factors.

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Anson the Developer

IN BRIEF:

• ▶️ The Stack Overflow podcast interviewed Node’s creator Ryan Dahl about why he moved on to creating Deno, as well as JSR, edge functions, and the future of JavaScript generally.

• ⚙️ Sticking with Deno, the Deno project has unveiled

  1

  deployctl

  , a CLI tool for working with Deno Deploy.

• On the JSR front, there’s ▶️ now a 6-minute video introduction explaining its motivations and what it offers beyond npm.

• If you’re a Windows-based developer and you’ve been itching to try the Bun runtime, hold that thought – Windows support is now close to shipping with 93% of tests passing.

unplugin-parcel-macros: Use Parcel/Bun Macros with Other Bundlers — Macros, as implemented in Parcel and Bun, are JavaScript functions that run at build time and whose values get inlined into the bundle in place of the original call. You can now use this feature with webpack, Vite, Rollup, esbuild, and Next.js.

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Parsing Hacker News’s ‘Who’s Hiring’ Threads with OpenAI and Node

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Comparing ECMAScript Modules (ESM) with CommonJS

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🛠 Code & Tools

Eta 3.4: Embedded JS Template Engine for Node, Deno, & Browsers — Boasts being lighter and faster than EJS but with many of the same features (it looks a lot like Ruby’s ERB, if you like that vibe). GitHub repo.

Ben Gubler

VineJS: Form Data Validation Library for Node Apps — A fast validation library for data received by your backend app, providing both runtime and static type safety, and handling form data and JSON payloads. Why use VineJS over Zod? They’ve answered that.

VineJS Contributors

date-fns 3.6: A Modern Date Utility Library — It’s been a few years since we linked to this “lodash for dates” that’s packed with over 100 date and time manipulation functions, but it continues to get frequent updates. GitHub repo.

Sasha Koss

💡 Tempo offers another suite of date and time functions and was inspired by date-fns.

• Happy DOM 14.0 – JS implementation of a web browser sans UI.

• date-fns 3.6 – ⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️

• Nightwatch.js 3.5 – Node.js end-to-end testing framework.

• ExpressoTS 2.9 – TypeScript framework for server-side apps.

• RxDB 15.12 – Offline-first, reactive database for JS apps.

• lmdb-js 3.0 – Data store wrapper for LMDB.

• x-crawl 9.0 – Flexible Web crawling library.

• Undici 6.9 – Node’s HTTP/1.1 client library.

• Javet 3.1 – Java + V8. Embed JS into Java.