Brad and Amy discuss some of their favorite new features in Node.js and how you can get the most out of them.

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Show Notes

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Crazy Remix News
05:00 Intro to Node.js
07:09 Node Versions
09:45 Support for ES Modules
13:30 Important Assertions
15:03 Sponsor: DatoCMS
15:56 Running an HTTP Server
17:03 Read and Write Files
18:28 UUID
19:41 Fetch API
22:00 CLI
23:31 Test Runner
24:15 Watch Mode
25:19 Sponsor: ZEAL
26:11 Performance Profiling
27:07 Other Scripts We've Written
35:09 Sponsor: Vercell
36:15 Picks and Plugs