[moltar]

Node has native top level await. However, figuring out how to make it work is an exercise in frustration for many.

[chromakode]

Yep! It requires ESM, which had other knock on effects in my codebase, IIRC with Lexical. I needed to hack around this a bit for Deno's module system as well (using esm.sh to preprocess Lexical) but it was a much nicer DX.

[tehbeard]

Is it much the same as trying to use esm in node while having legacy CJS code? Several options that end up with weird tradeoffs and bugs?

[throwaway11460]

npm install -g tsx

Name your files .ts and run with tsx ./file.ts

All done, good to go

[FractalHQ]

I just use npx vite-node or bun to run TS directly