Exploring competitive features in Node.js v18 and v19

• Nodemon.io

  137 25,976 7.8 JavaScript

  Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development

  Experimental support for watch mode, which replaces a tool like nodemon

• mocha

  138 22,412 7.6 JavaScript

  ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser

  

  As a solution, test runners such as Jest, Jasmine, and Mocha emerged, and have been the go-to tools for unit testing.

• SurveyJS

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• node-fetch

  91 8,635 1.7 JavaScript

  A light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js

  

  Before Node.js v18, you had to install node-fetch or Axios to request a resource from a server. With Node.js v18, you no longer need to install either package thanks to v18’s experimental Fetch API, which is available globally.

• jest

  473 43,529 9.6 TypeScript

  Delightful JavaScript Testing.

  

  As a solution, test runners such as Jest, Jasmine, and Mocha emerged, and have been the go-to tools for unit testing.

• pkg

  91 24,099 6.3 JavaScript

  Discontinued Package your Node.js project into an executable

  

  Another exciting feature is the ability to build a single-executable Node.js binary. Before Node.js v18, the only way to build a Node.js binary was to use a third-party package, like pkg.

• jasmine

  49 15,714 7.1 JavaScript

  Simple JavaScript testing framework for browsers and node.js

  

  As a solution, test runners such as Jest, Jasmine, and Mocha emerged, and have been the go-to tools for unit testing.

• nvm

  313 75,390 7.8 Shell

  Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

  

  Let's verify this. Assuming you are using nvm, you can install Node.js ≤ v18 and temporarily switch to it:

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• deno

  448 92,841 9.9 Rust

  A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

  

  Node.js has been a popular JavaScript runtime since its release in 2009. But the advent of two new runtimes, Deno and Bun, has brought a lot of hype for the new features they present in contrast to Node.

• bun

  286 70,251 10.0 Zig

  Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

  

  Node.js has been a popular JavaScript runtime since its release in 2009. But the advent of two new runtimes, Deno and Bun, has brought a lot of hype for the new features they present in contrast to Node.

• axios

  437 103,912 8.5 JavaScript

  Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

  

  Before Node.js v18, you had to install node-fetch or Axios to request a resource from a server. With Node.js v18, you no longer need to install either package thanks to v18’s experimental Fetch API, which is available globally.

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