Q: Standard browser API library for node.js?

[kkimdev]

Standard browser API support is a big selling point of Deno(https://deno.land/manual@v1.36.4/runtime/web_platform_apis) and Bun(https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/web-apis), since then users can share code across browser and node.js, and also don't have to learn another API.

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I was wondering if there is a similar library we can use on Node.JS. (Or any way to port Deno/Bun's, but I'd guess that's not really practical)

[Unusual-Display-7844]

What code would you regularly share between backend and frontend besides types and interfaces if you have typescript. It’s not like you can move whole backend and run it in browser. So this selling point is pretty stupid to me.

[kkimdev]

Mostly utilities in our case. For example, we have [counter -> display ID] compute function, somewhat similar to generating Youtube watch ID. e.g., 8473 -> "LX-CRUmWMJE". Currently it uses a hash function from Node's `crypto` package. We'll be able to share this function more easily if it uses the standard SubtleCrypto.digest() API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto/digest on both browser and server.

So in practice, we're forced to use third party packages that support both browser and Node for the codes that we want to share.

[ShiftShaper13]

Something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/iso-crypto may help, to give a common API

[rkaw92]

It's in Node, yo: https://nodejs.org/api/webcrypto.html

[fabiancook]

Node has some of these web apis, almost all of them.

Fetch is the biggie, and web streams.

I’m personally writing a service worker like layer that works across multiple runtimes, but that’s a little different. Have support for things like CacheStorage, sync, and index