{"id":4982,"date":"2025-01-15T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:40:04","slug":"do-i-need-this-node-dependency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/do-i-need-this-node-dependency\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Need This Node Dependency?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianmuenzenmeyer.com\/posts\/2024-do-i-need-this-node-dependency\/\">Brian Muenzenmeyer on new(ish) things in Node<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Through the efforts of contributors over several recent majors, great new features are landing. Each is useful in isolation, but put together they form a more and more comprehensive standard library.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you need a 3rd party testing library like jest? Maybe, but there is a tester built in now. Do you need a 3rd party file watcher like chokidar? Maybe, but there is a built-in watcher now. Do you need a build process to deal with TypeScript? Not anymore. Do you need chalk to colorize\/style terminal output? Not anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Muenzenmeyer on new(ish) things in Node: Through the efforts of contributors over several recent majors, great new features are landing. Each is useful in isolation, but put together they form a more and more comprehensive standard library. Do you need a 3rd party testing library like jest? Maybe, but there is a tester built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3,147],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-javascript","tag-node"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lots-of-green-hexagons-filling-the-entire-area.png?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/4986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}