deno for nodejs dev

[elycheikhsmail]

deno for nodejs developer

As a reminder :
nodejs does not support esm by default but deno does
nodejs does not support ts by default it needs a tool like tsc but deno supports ts of the box.
in the js ecosystem we have several options:
write the code in js or ts
write our code to be executed by deno or node (we are not talking about the browser here)
Obviously there is another option.

for this I define js-node, js-node and js-node-after-deno-build-tools as follows:

a javascript code can be written to be executed by node let's call the js-node.
in this case we only need node runtime install.

JavaScript code can be written to be executed by deno let's call it js-deno.
in this case you only need deno runtime install.

a typescrypt code can be written to be compiled by deno tools and executed by node with the possibility of accessing all the node api clet's all it js-node-after-deno-build-tools.

in this case we need both deno and node runtime

advantage:

• trick to have nodejs support esm
• trick to create nodejs project with deps without node_modules
• esm (for node) can be shared via deno registry or elsewhere
• adopt esm for the different JavaScript runtimes (node, deno, browser)
• no need to wait for deno compat to enjoy deno for node developer

remark:
I know there is dnt a tool that allows to publish an esm in npm registry but the approach I quoted above allows the same benefits but without npm or any other package entering the process of dev