Node.js Tooling Group Meeting 2020-07-10

Links

• Recording: https://youtu.be/ndCLeX40g6Q
• GitHub Issue: https://github.com/nodejs/tooling/issues/77
• Minutes Google Doc: https://hackmd.io/@nodejs-tooling/2020-07-10-meeting

Present

• Christopher Hiller (@boneskull)
• Bryan English (@bengl)
• Ian Sutherland (@iansu)
• Ruy Adorno (@ruyadorno)
• Corey Farrell (@coreyfarrell)
• Darcy Clarke (@darcyclarke)
• Benjamin Coe (@bcoe)

Agenda

• recursive filesystem operations api #78
  • Action item: Open PR/issue to address rmdir recursive removing a file instead of directory
  • Action item: unflag rmdir (@iansu)
  • Action item: get counts of rmdir recursive usage to see what impact breaking the API would be (@bcoe)
  • Note that we won’t find private projects!

• DEEP DIVE meeting proposals #73

  • ESM reloading: talk to module team
  • What are the hacks to reload ESM modules currently, and how can we do better
  • Action item: Chris should usurp a future meeting time for these two. First, recursive, then ESM (@boneskull)

• Recommendation for tooling config file location/format #71

  • This looks fun and let’s do something
  • Research. What are people other than node/js using?
  • New issue which is smaller in scope
  • Ian is going to tweet something. Go ian!!! (@iansu)

Q&A, Other

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