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by TheFuzzball 845 days ago
I think you'd have to write a facade package with a consistent API that mapped to the node/deno/bun equivalents, since they're each quite different.

Best bet is to use the Node fs package and rely on the deno/bun compatibility layer.

More generally, Deno pushes for Web Platform APIs, and as more are proposed and implemented the runtime-specific APIs will become fewer and fewer.
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apitman 845 days ago
Yeah this is basically what I'm trying to do (see response to sibling). Unfortunately I consider Node's APIs the worst of the 3. No shade on them it's just an older design. I really like Deno's approach since my code also needs to work in the browser. Writing HTTP handlers that take Request[0] and return Response[1] is a beautiful bit of symmetry with frontend code and feels like cheating.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response

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ascorbic 844 days ago
If you use Node 20+ then there's a lot more compatibility with web platform APIs, so it is possible to write code that works on Node, browser and WinterCG-compatible runtimes like Deno. Obviously you'll need to avoid using Node builtins.
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