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It's been a really eventful month for Node. First they added node:sqlite in v22.5.0, and now TypeScript support is landing. I love the direction Node is heading in.

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It is Bun influence / competition I guess. Good for everyone.

I believe the competition started with Deno. But yes, Bun is part of the competition now, too.

Deno was doing its own thing though.

Bun came out swinging with strong Node.JS compatibility promises. I have simply replaced node with bun for most of my own work without much effort. The mental effort required is to use `bun` instead of `node` in command line for most of the trivial things.

The recently-added test runner is very cool too!

YES. It was such a joy to be able to ditch Jest completely and run tests natively.

i tried that but had to revert to vitest, the native test runner feels incomplete atm.

What is missing for your use case or workflow?

Probably a bunch of assertion types and general DX. Node:test is just a feature, Vitest is a whole product. The former might be enough for small packages but nowhere near useful for anything non-trivial.

Fair enough. We still use Jest at work for exactly those reasons. In my personal projects, I prefer to minimise dependencies rather than get every DX benefit I can.

for instance exiting the runner on the first error. and the diffs with node:assert are not as nice either compared to vitest.

i'm building a framework with minimal dependencies at https://www.plainweb.dev so i'm super excited about everything that node builds in (sqlite, typescript).

but there is a difference between supporting the bare minimum and actually making it nice to use day to day.

I tested it a few months ago. However, the output isn't very human friendly.

I just started using it the other day and it’s a dream. I look forward to the eventual stability of their snapshot testing.

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