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 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.