Hunt

• Neo Financial, Head of DEX and OSS
• twitter @iansu (Private)
• flags
  • -l1 or -l -1 Short options
  • --color Long options
• subcommands
  • the status in git status
• "CLI is serious 80s vibes"
• Node has a small core which is why there are lots of dependencies installed with npm for a given project like isNumber.
• Bundling isn't the best because it can still result in a large bundle size.
• type: module to package.json to use import and ESMM or us .mjs (as opposed to .cjs).
• import Node.js internals with node:
  • eg, import fs from 'node:fs'
• There are many different ways to set arguments in a cli
• parseArgs: process.argv -> Tedious so use yargs of commander.
  • NOT TEDIOUS ANYMORE! parseArgs from 'node:util' uses process.argsv
    • declare the options (kind of like commander)
  • has polyfill, will be "backboarded" to v16
• fetch: now available in node@18
  • Built on top of Undici (HTTP/1.1)
• see iansu/git-blast on github to run git blast and see people's twitter handle's if supplied on githu
• node@18 now has a basic test runner.
  • don't necessarily need jest anymore.
  • node --test
• recursive mkdir function with {recursive: true}
• recursive rm operation {recursive: true, force: true}
• recursive cp (same as mkdir) **experimental
• readdir **open pr, not merged
• Speculation of what's next
  • glob patterns
  • self contained executables
  • native typescript (aka deno)

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