[jpsimons]

I just spent a couple hours migrating my knife sharpening website backend from Bun to Node. Feels good to avoid that lock-in. I was initially gung-ho for Bun but increasingly unsure about it. Things I'll miss for sure:

- Querying sqlite with tagged template literals

- Bun.password.verify being argon2 is a better default

- HTML imports

- JSX transpilation

- Auto loading .env file

https://burlyburr.com, which hits https://backend.burlyburr.com

[tkel]

Node supports Querying sqlite with tagged template literals.

https://nodejs.org/api/sqlite.html#databasecreatetagstoremax...

[zarzavat]

Why not just write a small helper library to add back the features you miss? Node includes SQLite and Argon2 at least, if the issue is the interface then that is easily fixed.

[jpsimons]

Claude did write me a simple wrapper so I can keep using tagged template literals in the same way with Node.

[AbuAssar]

Node supports auto loading .env and also supports sqlite

[jpsimons]

Sure, but at least on Node 22 I think I have to pass `--env-file=.env` option to make it pick up .env.

[afavour]

Certainly true but there’s a line between “better DX” and… well, kinda laziness

[traderj0e]

Yeah I don't want it to silently read magic config files

[AbuAssar]

There is also 1 line to load .env in node without passing an argument