Automating code updates with codemods

Upgrading TypeORM with jscodeshift — TypeORM is an ORM that supports both Data Mapper and Active Record patterns, and last year it introduced some breaking changes that left the author of this post facing a lot of updates to be made. What to do? Write a ‘codemod’ to automate the job! Even if you don’t use TypeORM, this post might give you some ideas for other places to use a code rewriting approach.

Clinton Blackburn

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Postman

Pacquet: A New, Experimental Package Manager for Node — Forget your npms, pnpms, and Yarns.. there’s a fresh face in town? Pacquet, written in Rust, is primarily a learning experiment for the author (who happens to be on Node.js core), but with package managers sharing ideas all the time, you never know..

Yagiz Nizipli

Useful Functions for a (Deno) HTTP Server — One way to think about an HTTP-based service is functionally, with requests going in, being processed, and a response heading out. The author explores Deno’s new Deno.serve function and how both it and the /x/http_fns functions can provide a more functional approach to common HTTP tasks. Possible food for thought even in Node with things like Hono picking up pace.

Jollytoad

nve 16.1: Run Things With a Specific Node.js Version — Execute a file, command, or REPL using a specific version (or multiple versions) of Node. For example, you could run npm test over multiple versions at once. v16.1 lets you specify a Node version stored in a package.json, .nvmrc, or similar file.

ehmicky