
Jacob Smith
Hailing from Vancouver, Canada, now living in Holland, Jacob is an avid API designer. He is a core collaborator of Node.js (loaders/modules, test runner, and userland migrations teams), TC39 and WinterTC / TC55 delegate, and author of several npm packages. Outside of engineering, he's known for cats, wine, and brunch.
Node.js Core Collaborator. TC39 & WinterTC / TC55 Delegate, NetherlandsJakobJingleheimerjakob.jingleheimer.dev
Node Just Run
Node Congress 2026
Mar 26, 15:40
Node Just Run

Run your project without drowning in configuration. For common scenarios, you can do, config-free via simple extensions using node's Customization API (you don't need to know what that is). It can be about as simple as telling node you want to use css modules and tsx: module.register('@nodejs-loaders/css-module').