> ...pretty much any functionality provided to deno is available for node as well.

Unfortunately Node still can't do something like this out of the box (AFAIK at least):

    import { Bla } from "npm:bla@^5";

Deno also has a builtin TS type checker, linter, formatter, test runner with coverage support, package manager, language server etc etc... In node these are all separate (and often 3rd-party) tools.

This doesn't seem like a big deal. Don't you just npm install whatever you need and then change the import names?

FWIW, almost this exact syntax for imports (without the `npm:` prefix) is supported for standalone scripts with Bun.

this one is actually a bad pattern to avoid.