Node.js Tooling Group Meeting 2020-03-06

Links

• Recording: https://youtu.be/NSowmWnKuyE
• GitHub Issue: https://github.com/nodejs/tooling/issues/62
• Minutes Google Doc: https://hackmd.io/@nodejs-tooling/2020-03-06-meeting

Present

• Tooling team: @nodejs/tooling
• Christopher Hiller: @boneskull
• Ruy Adorno: @ruyadorno
• Corey Farrell @coreyfarrell
• Ian Sutherland: @iansu
• Ben Coe @BenjaminCoe
• Darcy Clarke: @darcyclarke
• Bryan English: @bengl

Agenda

Announcements

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

nodejs/tooling

• fs hooks #63:
  • proposing a shim layer for fs, to make it easier to write tools that hook in to the file-system.
  • Corey: re ESM loader hooks; there's an experimental flag. use babel-plugin-istanbul to get coverage of natively-loaded ESM
  • Wes: tink/pnp is top-of-mind, but this sort of thing will serve many more purposes than just this
  • Corey: if you need real security look to the operating system; we need to be careful about overselling what this sort of thing can lock down
  • there's a feeling we want to wait for import maps / loader hooks?
• chmod -R #59
  • Ben: maybe a good place to get involved for someone who wants to start contributing to the node project
• tracking "hot module reloading" for ESM in core #51
  • Ben: we should talk to TSC about many overlapping concerns regarding filesystems
• Support for hooking spawn / spawnSync without patching. #48
  • Corey: remove agenda tag for now
  • Ben: let's keep this and #42 tagged
• A better way to detect a process is exiting #42
• Source Map V3 Support in Node.js #40:
  • I wrote a blog post: Source Maps in Node.js
    • Chris: syndicate this content!!! to dev.to
  • Next steps for the API?
  • Adding source maps? for Jest
• argument parsing #19
  • we kicked a few things out
  • points of contention:
    • single-dash flags, what does -abc do
    • we should do some usability tests: ask people who haven't built command-line tools (yet) if the API makes sense and what they expect it to do? ideally someone with CLI experience.
    • Corey: will want to see a proof-of-concept implementation

Q&A, Other

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