--- title: "Is Node really 'hated'?" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 408 published_at: "2021-10-07" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/408" --- Plus Eleventy 1.0, some git shortcuts, and a library for creating byte level data structures. | #​408 — October 7, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/408) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/isn642scxby3itbmlzvo.jpg)](https://yonigoldberg.medium.com/fighting-javascript-tests-complexity-with-the-basic-principles-87b7622eac9a) [Writing Clean JavaScript Tests with the BASIC Principles](https://yonigoldberg.medium.com/fighting-javascript-tests-complexity-with-the-basic-principles-87b7622eac9a) — An introduction to applying several key principles to shorten, clean, and simplify JavaScript and Node.js-based test suites. 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