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15 RECENT NODE.JS FEATURES THAT REPLACE POPULAR NPM PACKAGES

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Node.js has evolved to include many features that previously required third-party npm packages, reducing dependency bloat. This post covers fifteen recent Node.js features that replace popular packages, including the global fetch() API (replacing node-fetch), built-in test runner (replacing mocha/jest), native WebSocket support, file system utilities like fs.glob() and recursive operations, and various other utilities for styling text, generating UUIDs, and handling URLs.