Nicholas C. Zakas on the idea that we have choice in server-side JavaScript runtimes now, and you should be careful. … it makes sense to preserve the ability to switch runtimes easily. It doesn’t matter if you want to use Node.js or Deno or Bun in production right now. What you really want is the ability […]
Joyee Cheung made some waves in Node land last month: Since ESM was shipped in Node.js, for many years, it was possible to import cjs, but not possible to require(esm). The frustration of ERR_REQUIRE_ESM has bothered many and probably has been the primary source of wasted hours in the Node.js ecosystem. If package authors wanted to make sure that […]
I was pairing with my co-worker last week. They had a super different debugging style than I do. I’m aware that I can do fancy things in DevTools, like set breakpoints and whatnot right from within DevTools and use well-placed debugger; statements to halt JavaScript execution and inspect things at that point. But I hardly […]
I enjoyed watching Honeypot’s recent Node.js Documentary. Props to Honeypot for taking the time and resources to do these historical dives into some of our industries most major technologies. I like seeing the human side of these things. I feel like if too much more time passed, documentaries like these would get a lot harder […]