--- title: "Shell-free scripting from Node" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 478 published_at: "2023-03-16" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/478" --- Plus a Node version to avoid (19.8.0) and a neat way to print tables on the terminal. | Together with [![Frontend Masters logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_300,h_70/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:5/nk0tfdvalivacz8rw7rt.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-auth-apis/?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=authapis) #​478 — March 16, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/478) ![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/iqngb7wqoz0mhz2d23yi.jpg)](https://itnext.io/shell-free-scripts-with-execa-7-885fb3b42f83) [Shell-Free Scripts with Execa 7.1](https://itnext.io/shell-free-scripts-with-execa-7-885fb3b42f83) — [Execa](https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa) is a popular process execution library for Node and the [latest version](https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/releases/tag/v7.1.0) includes an interesting `$` method feature for writing [zx](https://github.com/google/zx)-style scripts with it, making it even more useful for shell scripting style usecases. ehmicky [Turbowatch: File Change Detector and Task Orchestrator](https://github.com/gajus/turbowatch) — Not just that but it claims to be _extremely fast_ and _“if you ever wanted something like Nodemon but more capable, then you are at the right place.”_ This looks very promising and the README is full of examples. 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Frontend Masters sponsor [Node v19.8 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v19.8.0) — Mostly a minor collection of changes, right down to commits adding trailing commas! `Buffer` gains a new `copyBytesFrom` method, `fs.openAsBlob` is introduced to support File-backed blobs, and a wide variety of dependencies get updates too (e.g. `npm` to 9.5.1), but there’s little of significant note in 19.8.0. ⚠️ **[Node v19.8.1](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v19.8.1) quickly followed to fix [a regression that was causing apps to crash](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/47096) so be sure to install 19.8.1 and not 19.8.0.** Node.js Project **IN BRIEF:** - 🎂 The [Electron project is celebrating its 10th birthday.](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/10-years-of-electron) We'll be focusing more on this in tomorrow's [JavaScript Weekly](https://javascriptweekly.com/) but it's fun to think of a time before Electron – it's in everything. - GitHub's dependency graph and Dependabot [now support](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-10-dependency-graph-and-dependabot-support-npm-v9/) npm v9 generated `package-lock.json` files. - Silvestar Bistrović shares [his favorite npm packages.](https://www.silvestar.codes/articles/my-favorite-npm-packages/) There are a couple I hadn't heard of before. 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