[pier25]

Many runtimes/languages rely on third party deps for that. Also plenty of devs think the stdlib should be as lean as possible.

Personally, I think there should be a balance. The direct consequence of a barebones stdlib is NPM and having to download hundreds of dependencies for a hello world.

[wky]

Golang has the golang.org/x packages, which avoids too much stdlib bloat while still providing the niceties of “pre-vetted” packages that don’t pull in a massive dependency tree.

[tanin]

Yeah, I try to avoid 3rd party libraries unless it comes from credible sources/companies or vetted by famous frameworks e.g. Rails uses it.

Not just for NPM but for Intellij plugin, VSCode extension, and etc.

If Node has officially pre-vetted libraries, that would be really awesome.

[pier25]

yeah I wish Node had something like that

[slopinthebag]

It does! (well Deno does but you can use them in Node)

https://jsr.io/@std

[pier25]

support is not uniform though

eg: https://jsr.io/@std/dotenv