Node got so good I'm crawling back from Deno

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

After years of using Deno, a developer returns to Node for a SvelteKit client project and discovers a dramatically improved runtime: native ECMAScript support, no more require(), and a surprisingly smooth migration. Converting a static site generator from Deno to Node v26.10.0 required only swapping file system APIs and an HTTP adapter, yet delivered 15% faster builds. The post also details package management choices like PNPM and FNM, TypeScript limitations, and the reasons Deno fell out of favor.