If you want to learn more about the topic, check out this article

nodevibe.substack.com/p/using-typ...

Meaning, you'll have to explicitly declare file extensions. Use the `type` keyword for type imports, use assertions for JSON imports, etc.

It might require a mindset shift if you're coming from the bundlers' world, where everything is handled for you

The last on the list is the native support that was introduced pretty recently. It has two modes:

1. types stripping
2. types transformation

One important thing to keep in mind is that you have to write ESM-compliant code to be able to use it.

Next, we have tsx, the rising star. At the moment it has only 13,000,000 weekly downloads but it's growing fast.

Just a few cool things about the tool:

- Written on top of `node`
- Respects `paths` and some other config options
- Uses esbuild under the hood

First, we have ts-node, which hasn't seen any new commits in 2 years.

Despite that, it has 31,000,000 weekly downloads. Just to put it into perspective, the TypeScript package itself has 93,000,000 weekly downloads

Roughly speaking, every 3rd TypeScript project uses ts-node

If you want to learn about the second reason and understand how UDP works in Node.js even deeper, you can check out my latest post on that matter here:

nodevibe.substack.com/p/udp-in-no...

You can see it on this diagram.

From start to finish, there could be up to 4 copies of the same data, which obviously affects the speed of request processing

The first one is the absence of zero-copy operations.

When data comes from a network, it comes through the layers of abstractions to finally be available in the application.

This path is different in different languages and platforms, but for Node.js, it is pretty long

Things that are really required in job listings are:

- Serverless Node.js apps on AWS lambdas
- Design of complex database relations and queries using libraries like Prisma or Drizzle
- Building a testing pipeline with disposable databases
- CI/CD pipelines for Node.js app
- Etc.