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Dependency footprint

How many third-party packages a project takes on, and the audit, upgrade and supply-chain work each added dependency brings with it.

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A bare test() in node --test cancels the subtest you did not await

Node's built-in runner now covers mocking, fake timers and TypeScript execution, so a backend library can skip the framework install. Adopting it means learning where test() and describe() disagree, and living with three experimental flags.

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