Npm 2023 retrospective; Prettier 3.2; Rspack 0.5; Bun v1.0.23; library for immutable updaes; Bun

“It’s a new year! So let’s look back at how npm, the most popular package manager in the world, fared in 2023. We will look at some of the major trends in the ecosystem and investigate what the data reveal about how npm grew over the past year.”

“We’ll also take a deeper dive into some of the malware and spam issues npm faced over the course of the year, and answer questions you didn’t knew you wanted to know the answers to (such as which package has the longest name or is biggest in size).”

• CLI performance improvements (as figured out by Fabio Spampinato) are slated for version 4.0.
• Support for `.jsonc` files (JSON with comments and optional trailing commas)
• Angular: Support formatting for Angular ICU expression
• JavaScript:
  • Avoid introducing linebreaks in template interpolations
  • Preserve empty lines in multi-line method chains
  • Fix inconsistencies for optional chaining
  • Fix comments in if
• TypeScript: Improve conditional type alias layout
• Ember/Handlebars: Preserve path literal segments
• GraphQL: Improve GraphQL union types formatting

• Importing SQLite databases:

  
  import db from './my.db' with {type: "sqlite"};
  
  const {id} = db
    .query("SELECT id FROM users LIMIT 1")
    .get();
  
  console.log(id); // 1
  

  You can also embed such a database in a single-file executable built by Bun.
• Support for resource management (a stage 3 ECMAScript proposal)
• Support for import.meta.dirname and import.meta.filename

import { $ } from "bun";

// to stdout:
await $`ls *.js`;

// to string:
const text = await $`ls *.js`.text();