Node.js

Migrate is a very useful migration framework for Node. Unfortunately, its documentation is lacking in places. Here are a couple of handy options not covered by the README.

TypeScript's strict type checking can cause problems when working with numeric environment variables. Here's a solution.

By default, a Node.js stream expects to operate on a Buffer or a Uint8Array. We can override this by telling the stream to use "object mode".

The default "recurse depth" of console.dir is 2. This is rarely what I want.

The Node CLI supports a "require" flag, which allows you to preload a module when running Node.

Node isn't managed by npm. As such, there's no guarantee that running npm install -D @types/node will install the correct type definitions for your version of Node.