There are many ways to install Node.js on MacOS, such as nvm or homebrew, but I’ve always preferred a direct, manual approach. For me, this method gives you complete control, involves no extra package managers, and makes upgrades transparent and simple.
This guide will walk you through manually installing Node.js on macOS (and the same principles apply to Linux).
The GitHub CI Actions for my favorite open-source project, the bookmarking service Shaarli, started failing recently. No one was quite sure why, especially because there hadn’t been any significant updates to the tests, and they passed locally for all the developers who ran them. I had a small pull request that was failing as well, so I thought I would give fixing the actions a shot.
Episode 294 of JS Party is titled Reports of Node’s death are greatly exaggerated and features two members of the Node Technical Steering Committee: Matteo Collina and James Snell. Their perspective on the project (and software development in general) was insightful, especially some of the challenges they face.