How do I do the same with Typescript You can leave tsc running in watch mode using tsc -w -p . and it will generate .js files for you in a live fashion, so you can run node foo.js like normal TS Node There is ts-node : https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node that will compile the code on the … Read more
TL;DR: sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy First of all let me clarify the situation a bit. In summer 2012 Debian maintainers decided to rename Node.js executable to prevent some kind of namespace collision with another package. It was very hard decision for Debian Technical Committee, because it breaks backward compatibility. The following is a quote from … Read more
Set the environment variable in the script command: … “scripts”: { “start”: “node app.js”, “test”: “NODE_ENV=test mocha –reporter spec” }, … Then use process.env.NODE_ENV in your app. Note: This is for Mac & Linux only. For Windows refer to the comments.
After doing some research found the solution. Run the below command. echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p For Arch Linux add this line to /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf: fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
Node.js has included experimental support for ES6 support. Read more about here: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v13.x/api/esm.html#esm_enabling. TLDR; Node.js >= v13 It’s very simple in Node.js 13 and above. You need to either: Save the file with .mjs extension, or Add { “type”: “module” } in the nearest package.json. You only need to do one of the above to … Read more
You can set the engines field in your package.json and set requirements for either node or npm versions or both: “engines” : { “npm” : “>=7.0.0”, “node” : “>=16.0.0” } To enforce this via npm you need to create an .npmrc file (and commit it to the repository) and set the engines-strict option to true, … Read more
I think you missed this step: source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh You can run this command on the bash OR you can put it in the file /.bashrc or ~/.profile or ~/.zshrc to automatically load it https://github.com/creationix/nvm
(nvm maintainer here) nvm alias default 6.11.5 if you want it pegged to that specific version. You can also do nvm alias default 16. Either way, you’ll want to upgrade to the latest version of nvm (v0.33.11 as of this writing) $ nvm alias default 16.14.2 # nvm set default node.js version 16.14.2 $ node … Read more
OK, it’s been a while and this is a popular question, so I’ve gone ahead and created a scaffolding github repository with JavaScript code and a long README about how I like to structure a medium-sized express.js application. focusaurus/express_code_structure is the repo with the latest code for this. Pull requests welcome. Here’s a snapshot of … Read more
The gist In Node.js, __dirname is always the directory in which the currently executing script resides (see this). So if you typed __dirname into /d1/d2/myscript.js, the value would be /d1/d2. By contrast, . gives you the directory from which you ran the node command in your terminal window (i.e. your working directory) when you use … Read more