node.js

How to prevent npm install for unsupported Node.js versions

How to prevent npm install for unsupported Node.js versions

  • March 17, 2022

npm configurations allow us to do quite a lot of nifty things. One of them is to allow the project to set the Node.js version that needs to be used in order to run the project. This also provides us with the functionality to prevent npm install for unsupported Node.js...

Specifying a node version in Repl.it

Specifying a node version in Repl.it

  • September 13, 2021

I was recently trying to use a later version of Node on Repl.it. I wanted to use a package that supported ES Modules, and the default version did not have support for it. So I wanted to use the latest node version in Repl.it. And found that there was no...

Using Babel to import/export ES2015 modules in Node.js

Using Babel to import/export ES2015 modules in Node.js

  • August 15, 2017

Using “require” statements (commonJS syntax) in your server side code while writing “import” and “export” statements (ES2015 syntax) for your front end makes writing javascript a bit weird. The reason for not having import and export statements for modules is that node parses modules a bit differently than how they...