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by vasergen 934 days ago
> The experience of using Node.JS with TypeScript, ts-node, and ESM is horrible.

So true, I really wandering if there was a better alternative, they essentially broke a lot of packages and I don't know how many dev hours will be put now to fix all of this, because so many tools are broken now. Additionally to that, they did some other not backwards compatible changes, like removing __direname in ESM, which is IMHO not the best decisions, why not for example just keep it as it is, but deprecate it and have a warning message.
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khalidx 934 days ago
I agree that the migration experience has been subpar! I dropped ESM migration of my packages 2-3 times before finally picking it up again and wrapping it up in a simple guide. Hopefully with the config I shared you’ll find that you can use all those out-of-reach ESM packages now! Also, I provided examples for getting __dirname and __filename -like behavior.
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azangru 934 days ago
> a better alternative

Deno?

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