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average day in NPM land (programming.dev)

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[-] seatwiggy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 months ago

There's a js runtime called bun that is 90-something% feature equivalent to node and also has built in alternatives to many packages like express and bcrypt. I haven't used it myself so I can't speak to its quality but it's always nice to see a little competition

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

So is Deno! You can easily import npm: and node: packages and run typescript without transpiling. With Bun and Deno there's no reason to use Node tbh.

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

For starting new projects i absolut agree. At work we have a legacy react app that just will not run on bun and for deno we would probably have to rewrite some stuff.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I've updated some legacy nodejs to Deno recently and it's actually not bad! If you're using serverless Denoflare is super convenient and DTN is a tool for building Deno to NPM (both esm and commonjs) so you can have easy backwards compatibility if needed, it even shims all of the Deno standard lib.

It's really impressive what Deno and Bun people have done - for the first time I actually somewhat enjoy server side JS!

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That sounds neat. For our nodejs server this could be done without too much effort. Will keep that in mind, thanks. But I also have to check for the cra app we’re having a lot of issues with.