Retired dependencies
summary
Node 25+ already makes several common dependencies unnecessary: load .env files with --env-file, replace nodemon with node --watch, use built‑in glob in fs instead of glob packages, and drop date libraries now that the Temporal API (Node 26) and Intl duration/relative formats handle parsing and formatting. LocalStorage/sessionStorage and SQLite ship in Node 25, letting 1700 tests run in 37s instead of ~1000s by switching to in‑memory SQLite. These are concrete swaps with measurable speed and footprint wins.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:05Native env variables
- 3:52Node.js file watcher
- 5:40Glob for file searches
- 8:10Node.js storage
- 11:21SQLite for testing
- 13:32INTL date formatting
- 18:14Relative time formatting
- 20:41Temporal API
- 23:12Recent Node.js features
- 25:59LLMs in learning platform
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