philnash

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/11927506

Many times when I’ve tried to write some code in Node.js using ES modules I’ve found myself reaching for __dirname and then looking up how to replace it. Now Node.js, Deno and Bun support import.meta.dirname. Check out the article for more detail.

 

Many times when I’ve tried to write some code in Node.js using ES modules I’ve found myself reaching for __dirname and then looking up how to replace it. Now Node.js, Deno and Bun support import.meta.dirname. Check out the article for more detail.

 

Click bait title, but this post goes into depth about using tsconfig.json correctly and across different layers of your project.

 

This is a follow up to my previous article on how to get more TypeScript benefits in your JavaScript. This goes into how to add types using JSDoc or TypeScript declaration files.

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