[fswd]

node.js nowadays is a total disaster. I've been able to hold down the fort with turbo repo, but even then it's been a touchy strategy. I want to switch to Deno, and I'm interested in articles like this. Either that, or, because of the state of nodejs/NPM modules, and it's ever-increasing surface area of doom and resume driven development node modules, either somehow switch to deno or go back to just HTML and vanilla js. I just can't get any work done. I'm saying this as a developer with 27 years experience and who has written my own server side spidermonkey solution pre-nodejs.

[thr0wawayf00]

> I just can't get any work done.

Yep, I'm feeling this right now. I was recently tasked with updating an internal node app that hadn't been touched in about 4 years and it's seriously one of the least fun things I've had to do in my nearly 10 year career. After hacking away at for it a couple weeks, I told my boss that it needs a ground-up rewrite.

The bazaar approach of Node and NPM has created an absolute hellscape to develop in.

[HatchedLake721]

Care to elaborate why you can’t get any work done, and how Deno will solve that?

I’ve been using Node.js pretty much daily in production for almost a decade now, and it’s never been a total disaster, not even close.

[craftoman]

Node.js is a mature framework and never had problems with it. I also write my own code and avoid installing useless packages. Truth is everyone likes fresh projects like Deno but their ecosystem is doomed. I mean all I need is Redis and it doesn't work the way supposed to.

[sdesalas]

> resume driven development node modules

Hahahah!!! So true!! ;D .. i think i've written a couple of those!