Boris Cherny

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Boris Cherny’s blog. Software engineer at Anthropic, creator of Claude Code, and author of O’Reilly’s Programming TypeScript. Writing about software, TypeScript, and whatever else is on my mind.

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NPM and NodeJS should do more to make ES Modules easy to use

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Coming back to JavaScript and TypeScript after a few years neck deep in Python and Hack, I kept hitting a number of new, cryptic errors when running NodeJS code in my dev environment: