--- title: "TypeScript 4.7 supports ES modules in Node.js" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 439 published_at: "2022-05-26" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/439" --- Plus GitHub Actions gets Node 16 support, another option for serverless Node functions, and a way to make your console.log a bit more colorful. | πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #​439 β€” May 26, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/439) ![Node.js Weekly](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/v1653576619/lgfqinzbdqttwmhvljxb.png) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/q0hgdaydzeshqzlyhg6f.jpg)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-7/) [TypeScript 4.7 Released](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-7/) β€” We wouldn’t usually make TypeScript a top feature in Node Weekly although many of you _are_ using it, but this release has a huge feature in the shape of ES module support for Node – a feature that has been infamously difficult to implement, and whose reliance on file extensions [continues to provoke debate](https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/49083). Daniel Rosenwasser [Payload, a Node-Based Headless CMS, Now Fully Open Source](https://payloadcms.com/blog/open-source) β€” [Payload](https://payloadcms.com/docs/getting-started/what-is-payload), is a full-featured [headless](https://payloadcms.com/docs/getting-started/what-is-payload#what-does-headless-mean) CMS (built on top of Express.js, MongoDB, and React) and has just moved to the MIT license which opens up a lot more use cases. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload). James Mikrut (Payload CMS Blog) [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7de9b0f5.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/nodeweekly) [RedisGreen: Secure, Scalable, Full-Featured Redis 7 Hosting](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/nodeweekly) β€” The latest Redis features, instrumented and scaled with the tools teams need as they grow. RedisGreen sponsor [DigitalOcean Releases New _Functions_ Service](https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-digitalocean-functions-serverless-computing) β€” AWS Lambda launched in November 2014 essentially popularizing a paradigm you now see everywhere: functions as a service. DigitalOcean now joins the party with _Functions_ and, as with Lambda, Node.js gets first class support. Anshu Agarwal **Quick bytes:** - You can now [run GitHub Actions in a Node 16 runtime](https://github.blog/changelog/2022-05-20-actions-can-now-run-in-a-node-js-16-runtime/). - AWS has announced [the end of support for Node.js 12.x](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-the-end-of-support-for-node-js-12-x-in-the-aws-sdk-for-javascript-v3/) in the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3). As Node.js 12 reached its general 'end of life' last month, this is no big surprise, and you should be upgrading ASAP. - For that matter, [Node.js 17 goes end of life next week](https://twitter.com/trott/status/1529593378190393344) as well. Node 16 or 18 are your places to head to next. - [npm 8.11.0](https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.11.0) has been released. - Google Cloud is certainly excited about its updated [Cloud Logging Library for Node.js](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/get-more-insights-with-the-new-version-of-the-nodejs-library). [Avoiding Puppeteer Antipatterns](https://serpapi.com/blog/puppeteer-antipatterns/) β€” [Puppeteer](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer) remains a fantastic way to control a headless browser from code but I, personally, find it hard to develop best practices around using it. Greg, thankfully, has a bunch of things here _not_ to do in future. Greg Gorlen [See How Many Hours Engineers Really Spend Coding in the State of Engineering Time Report](https://retool.com/reports/state-of-engineering-time-2022/) Retool: State of Engineering Time Report sponsor [Making a Podcast Transcription Server in Node](https://medium.com/picovoice/making-a-podcast-transcription-server-with-express-js-e73861f10660) β€” The author likes listening to podcasts but wants to be able to search back for things that were _said_ in them. He brought it together using the [Leopard speech-to-text engine](https://github.com/Picovoice/leopard) and some Node.js glue code – [source here](https://github.com/Picovoice/leopard/tree/master/demo/expressjs). Ian Lavery πŸ›  Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/j8drnuetnvclrjkhhm6c.jpg)](https://github.com/Olian04/better-logging) [better-logging: A Drop-In Replacement for Node's Default Logging Methods](https://github.com/Olian04/better-logging) β€” Extends `console.debug`, `console.log` and friends with the time and a colorful tag. Simple and sweet. Oliver Anteros [Keyv: Simple Key-Value Storage with Support for Multiple Backends](https://github.com/jaredwray/keyv) β€” A Promise-based abstraction you can use with a memory based store (by default) or, if you need persistence, Redis, SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, etcd and Mongo. Jared Wray [CSV Parse: Convert CSV Formatted Text into Arrays of Objects](https://csv.js.org/parse/) β€” Extends the native Node.js transform stream API so you can get up and running quickly – see [some example code.](https://csv.js.org/project/examples/) Part of [a suite of CSV libraries](https://csv.js.org/) that can also generate and transform CSV. Adaltas [Debug Node.js Apps Without Stopping Them in Prod. Try Rookout Free Today](https://www.rookout.com/lp-nodejs/?utm_campaign=node&utm_source=nl&utm_medium=cooper) Rookout sponsor [Electron 19.0.0 Released](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-19-0) β€” The popular cross platform app building framework upgrades to Chromium 102, V8 10.2, and Node 16.14.2. Electron Team [Got 12.1: A Powerful HTTP Request Library for Node](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got) β€” A popular HTTP request library. [v12.1](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got/releases/tag/v12.1.0) adds a way to _manually_ check that a response was successful that’s useful if you otherwise set Got to not throw errors as it usually does. Sindre Sorhus [Fontkit: An Advanced Font Engine for Node and Browser](https://github.com/foliojs/fontkit) β€” Works with TrueType, OpenType, WOFF, and other formats - supports mapping characters to glyphs, substitutions, reading metrics, laying out glyphs, font subsetting, and more. Used as part of the [PDFKit](https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit) PDF generation library. foliojs [postgres-pool 6.0: Connection Pool Implementation for `pg`](https://github.com/postgres-pool/postgres-pool) James Geurts [env-schema 5.0: Validate Environment Variables with Ajv and Dotenv](https://github.com/fastify/env-schema) Fastify [mock-os: Testing Module for the `os` Built-in Module](https://github.com/lfortin/node-mock-os) Laurent Fortin πŸ’» Jobs [Software Engineer at Blueground (Remote)](https://www.theblueground.com/careers?department=Engineering) β€” Help us build the world’s leading next-gen platform for home rentals and shape the future of living. Blueground [Web Academic Lead - US (Remote)](https://www.comeet.com/jobs/masterschool/57.005/web-academic-lead---usa/D9.D21) β€” Mentor aspiring developers seeking to build inspiring careers. Create and lead the online sessions, being the role model for our students. 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