Node.js Tooling Group Meeting 2020-01-24

Present

Extracted from tooling-agenda labelled issues and pull requests from the nodejs org prior to the meeting.

execvp
- Wes asking about process replacements; talks about Netflix use case
- Wants to see Bryan’s PoC if one exists
- Import maps
- There is contention (someone paste url to issue)

tracking "hot module reloading" for ESM in core #51
- Action item: @boneskull follow up with @bengl

A better way to detect a process is exiting #42
- corey should do ref impl but he is not present
Source Map V3 Support in Node.js #40
- we have it but community doesn’t know
- we need to promote it
- need an example: https://github.com/bcoe/express-ts-errors
- ben wants to write an “official” article about it, introducing to community, to get feedback, etc.
- Example of blog post: https://github.com/nodejs/package-maintenance/pull/260
argument parsing #19
- Ben willing to do a hacking session with Ruy on it
- This is “rad”
Support for hooking spawn / spawnSync without patching #48
- Ben: I have sticky env var in place for coverage (was part of PR) to allow for coverage on child processes
- Need to make this available for userland
- https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/child_process.js#L515
some bugs found with mkdir recursive:
- https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/31481

Ruy is working on npm “workspaces”
- Sourcing ideas
- In design phase
- This is like from yarn, some stuff from lerna

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