Node.js 20.6 added built-in support for the .env file. This is an excellent addition to the platform and gives us the ability to load environment variables from .env files directly without using third-party packages. While it is great to see first-class support, some caveats remain. Let us look at how it works. Assuming that...
npm configurations allow us to do quite a lot of nifty things. One of them is to allow the project to set the Node.js version that needs to be used in order to run the project. This also provides us with the functionality to prevent npm install for unsupported Node.js...
I was recently trying to use a later version of Node on Repl.it. I wanted to use a package that supported ES Modules, and the default version did not have support for it. So I wanted to use the latest node version in Repl.it. And found that there was no...
Using “require” statements (commonJS syntax) in your server side code while writing “import” and “export” statements (ES2015 syntax) for your front end makes writing javascript a bit weird. The reason for not having import and export statements for modules is that node parses modules a bit differently than how they...
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