The JavaScript and Node.js ecosystem has a large package ecosystem. You’re typically installing dependencies using a package manager, like npm. Another option is to write the needed code yourself. No matter which direction you’re choosing, your application needs to load the needed files from your own project …

You can create a JSON string from anything in JavaScript using the JSON.stringify(anything) method. However, the resulting JSON string may not contain the expected values. For example, if you’re JSON serializing a JavaScript error, you’ll notice that its JSON string doesn’t contain any properties. JavaScript …

The Fs.realpath method in Node.js resolves the actual file system location of a given path. For example, you’re typically creating a symlink for nginx configuration files from the directory containing all available files to the directory having the enabled files. You can use the Node.js file …

You may notice a deprecation warning in your terminal that the fs.Stats constructor is deprecated. Node.js deprecated the public fs.Stats constructor in version 22.0.0: (node:17560) [DEP0180] DeprecationWarning: fs.Stats constructor is deprecated. (Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created) This tutorial …

Sometimes you need to detect the version running your code at runtime. You may need this to ensure that your code runs with a required version of Bun. This tutorial shows you how to detect the Bun version, that runs your code, at runtime. {{outline}} Determine the Bun Version Running …

The Bun JavaScript runtime is still in an early stage of development at the time of writing this tutorial. It’s not 100% compatible with Node.js and there are a handful of APIs missing for full interoperability. If you still want to support Bun, you may need to adjust …

Starting from Node.js 20.10.0 and 21.7.0 you can format a text using a styleText utility function. You may know terminal styling packages like Chalk already. There’s a good chance you don’t need Chalk anymore 😃 styleText is a simple tool and useful in console …

ECMAScript modules are an official standard describing a format on how to write reusable JavaScript code. Browsers used ECMAScript modules and Node.js had their own module loading implementation: CommonJS. Node.js added full ESM support starting from version 12. At the time of writing this tutorial, developers migrate their …