Node.js Doesn’t Suck Anymore

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⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - TypeScript Support
01:10 - ESM Support
01:57 - Built In Test Runner
07:32 - --watch Flag
08:43 - --env-file Flag
09:48 - Promise Based Standard Libraries
10:50 - Top Level await
11:19 - Glob File Search
12:29 - Built In Debugger
13:53 - Built In Web Socket Support
14:57 - Built In SQLite Database

#NodeJS #WDS #JavaScript

[Lu-Die-MilchQ]

Node really shows how important competition is. They were stalled for quite some time until Bun (and Deno) started kicking their ass

[essaadi_elmehdi]

It's crazy that Node js didn't support those important featuress before

[dgdev]

Man, I can't believe this.
I don't need karma, jasmine, nodemon, as dependencies. This is great first step.
Great job node js team, Keep rocking. One day I will commit to nodejs.

[justafreakable]

Bun.js really had a significant impact on Node.js. Do you think all these features would have been introduced this quickly in an open-source project if Bun hadn’t come as direct competition?

[Dariansweb]

Brother.. man, my jaw started dropping when the debugger was talked about and then when the sqllite features were brought up I had to reach down and pick my jaw up off the floor. Amazing features coming! thanks, my friend :)

[niZmosis]

I bet in 3 years from now, this is still all experimental just like all the other stuff that has been stuck in the experimental state. So for a production app, it's just a tease of "what it could have been", and we'll just continue doing things the old way. --experimental-modules anyone? Yea that's been stuck in experimental for over 5 years, and would super useful for so many people. Other one that comes to mind is "--experimental-json-modules", like cmon, finish something before making other never to be finished features.

[j________k]

I love that it works as a single executable binary now. Been shipping binaries for months now

[stephanw.]

node.js never sucked, dude

Jackson guitars actually do, though

[tsooooooo]

SO much overdue quality of life stuff! Great summary thanks

[mateja]

Once you’ve used bun, which just works without any config, it’s difficult to go back.

[TylerR]

I wish terms like "test coverage" would fall out of the lexicon already.

[Bozon_Higgs]

Great to see that Node finally gets features that have been available in it's competitors (like Deno or Bun) for years. There was no reason for Node not to have them, except for it's dev team being rigid. Now it will be harder for alternative runtimes to compete

[youloulou]

Very nice content. It would have been even nicer to get the version of Node in which each feature have been added

[alokbaluni]

Which shampoo or conditioner do you use?

[BobFrTube]

Now they need to add a tagged expression for SQL queries. I have my own but it would be wonderful to have it built it.

[zalaam_]

I've recently migrated to the bun but It seems node is finally taking this race seriously

[Codefide]

Remember to add to your run script --experimental-sqlite flag for the node:sqlite to work

[aravind.a]

Great improvement from node.js. Thanks for the video :)

[HarshKapadia]

Nice! Thank you for compiling all these features! How did you find all the new features?

[Kiev-in--days]

I kinda see typescript support in Node as enshitfication. Well at least they do not force us to use it. Not yet.