Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend 1 ▲ David Bushell 1 hour ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments It’s finally time I go crawling back to Node!I’ve been using Node heavily this month on a SvelteKit client project. When did Node get so good‽ Deno has been my go-to runtime for so long I forgot how to Node. Now I’m back, I find all the ECMAScript† sugar is supported and the old annoying APIs have been replaced or modernised. Most importantly, I never have to see require().† Doesn’t seem like that Oracle trademark dispute will see a positive end :(Package managementThe official Node docs recommend piping an internet script straight to bash (we never learn) to install NVM to manage Node & NPM. My (ancient) experience with NVM and NPM hasn’t been stellar. I heard Fast Node Manager (FNM) was better to switch Node versions. Obviously I roll bleeding-edge but I have client projects that demand stability.I opted for PNPM too to avoid getting immediately pwned. (The “M” in NPM stands for “malware.”) Some scripts I use have hard-coded binary names, so I added two aliases:alias npm=pnpm alias… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.