Another way to look inside your npm packages
March 11, 2025 |
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🔎 Node Modules Inspector — A tool that runs pnpm inside your browser, “installs” a package, then analyzes its dependencies. This can be useful for analyzing packages you already use, but also for simplifying your own projects, as 11ty’s Zach Leatherman did here. Anthony Fu |
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Node Added TypeScript Support, But What Does That Mean for Deno? — The Deno team, learning from previous experiences with Node, went ‘all in’ with TypeScript from day one. Now, Node can work with TypeScript too, but the experience is still very different, and the Deno team explains how here. Andy Jiang and Ryan Dahl |
ThePrimeagen’s Dev Setup Is Better Than Yours — See why simpler dev tooling is better by hand-crafting an environment with bash scripts. You’ll learn common Unix tools for managing libraries, interacting with the OS, window management, and more in this course. Frontend Masters |
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📄 “Everything I Was Lied to About Node.js Came True with Elixir” – Sometimes we like to check in with people who decided Node wasn’t for them and let’s just say.. Dylan wasn’t a fan. Dylan Moore 📄 How to Troubleshoot Node.js Images in OpenShift Francisco De Melo Junior (Red Hat) 📄 Seven Best Practices of File Uploads with JavaScript StorageBowl |
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🛠 Code & Tools |
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PGlite: Run Postgres in WebAssembly — PGlite packages a WASM build of Postgres into a TypeScript library that can be run directly from Node.js (or Bun, Deno, and even the browser) and it’s only a few megabytes in size. ElectricSQL / Neon |
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📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript |
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A quick roundup of some of other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them:
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