--- title: "Now npm fans can walk the Deno-saur" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 463 published_at: "2022-11-17" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/463" --- Plus Node.js in GitHub Codespaces, a Node code generator for gRPC proto files, and TypeScript 4.9's faster file watching. | #​463 — November 17, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/463) Together with [![Datadog\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_700,h_190/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:10/vuhqm1wlyvxuddx1zxr8.png)](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/node-troubleshooting/?utm_source=advertisement&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dg-cooperpress-applications-ww-node-p-troubleshooting) ![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,q_auto/zvh6lmbicdzh323w9bxr.jpg)](https://deno.com/blog/v1.28) [Deno 1.28 Released (Now with 1.3 Million New Modules..?)](https://deno.com/blog/v1.28) — Yes, we know [Deno](https://deno.land/) isn’t Node (it _is_ an anagram of it, though 😏) but given its shared provenance and now that Deno now officially supports using npm modules in a ‘stable’ way, this is newsworthy. 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