April 30, 2025

Subject: History of modules; categorizing package dependencies; universal server API

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The evolution of JavaScript modularity (from 2018)

github.com github.com/myshov

A bit older, but describes an interesting aspect of JavaScript’s history in great detail.

Using pnpm catalogs for categorizing package dependencies

antfu.me @antfu@webtoo.ls

srvx: universal server API that supports Node.js, Deno and Bun

srvx.unjs.io github.com/pi0 github.com/h3js

[Quoting the GitHub repo:] Universal Server API based on web platform standards. Works with Deno, Bun and Node.js.

  • Seamless runtime integration with identical usage (handler and instance)
  • Zero overhead Deno and Bun support
  • Node.js compatibility with ~native perf and fast response support

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