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pnpm, or Performant Node Package Manager, is one of the main JavaScript package managers, [2] developed in 2016 by Zoltan Kochan for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment. [3] It focuses on being a disk space-efficient alternative to npm .
Framework choice depends on an application’s requirements, including the team’s expertise, performance goals, and development priorities. [14] [15] [16] A newer category of web frameworks, including enhance.dev, Astro, and Fresh, leverages native web standards while minimizing abstractions and development tooling.
The Closure Compiler is available for use through command line tools: Java-based application run from the shell which compiles a list of specified JavaScript files; npm package google-closure-compiler which provides three compilers: native binary executable (via GraalVM), Java and a JavaScript-based one
Node.js provides a way to create "add-ons" via a C-based API called N-API, which can be used to produce loadable (importable) .node modules from source code written in C/C++. [60] The modules can be directly loaded into memory and executed from within JS environment as simple CommonJS modules.
Vite (French:, like "veet") is a local development server written by Evan You, [1] the creator of Vue.js, and used by default by Vue and for React project templates. It has support for TypeScript and JSX.
Bun is a JavaScript runtime, package manager, test runner and bundler built from scratch using the Zig programming language. [4] [5] It was designed by Jarred Sumner as a drop-in replacement for Node.js. Bun uses WebKit's JavaScriptCore as the JavaScript engine, [6] unlike Node.js and Deno, which both use V8.
In his talk, Dahl mentioned his regrets about the initial design decisions with Node.js, focusing on his choices of not using promises in API design, usage of the legacy build system GYP, node_modules and package.json, leaving out file extensions, magical module resolution with index.js and breaking the sandboxed environment of V8. [10]
Hermes: developed by Facebook for React Native mobile apps [13] Can also be used independent from React Native. Continuum: A self-interpreter that supports older drafts of the ECMAScript 2015 specification. [14] Uniquely, the engine is implemented in ECMAScript 3, which made it possible to run ES2015 in browsers as old as IE6. [15]