Translates the seven-subcommand engine to Node ESM, one module per former Go
file, invoked as `node scripts/newsletter <command>` from the repo root. The Go
implementation stays in place for now so parity can be measured against it.
Hand-rolled HTML and XML regexes give way to cheerio, which removes the manual
string surgery in caption extraction and covers RSS and sitemap XML through
xmlMode without a second parser. fetch-via-defuddle gains a local extraction
stage ahead of the defuddle.md proxy; the proxy stays, because fetching from a
third IP is the whole point when this machine's IP is the blocked one. Both
stages now emit the same YAML frontmatter plus body, and an extraction that
looks like a bot challenge counts as a local failure so the proxy still runs.
Behaviour is preserved where it is load-bearing rather than where it is merely
idiomatic: query strings are rebuilt by string surgery so surviving parameters
keep their original order and encoding, duplicate detection stays an index loop
with byte-offset boundary checks so a prefix of a stored URL is not a false
match, empty optional fields are omitted rather than emitted as "", a deep-crawl
miss reports cutoff as null rather than dropping the key, bullet filtering counts
code points, tag counts keep their six-column alignment, and a malformed percent
sequence falls back to the raw substring.
The printer lives in its own module so a command module never imports the
dispatcher: index.js runs main() at module scope, so that cycle would execute
the CLI as a side effect of any import. Missing dependencies report one
actionable line instead of a module-resolution stack trace, and a reader that
closes early exits quietly instead of raising EPIPE.
The root package.json already declares "type": "module", so a .js file here is
ESM and the .mjs suffix only restates what the manifest states. Renames the three
GitHub Actions scripts and follows every reference, including the six JSDoc
import("...") type annotations that would otherwise degrade to any without
throwing.
Replace hand-rolled REST paging, GraphQL cursor loops and header plumbing with
octokit, which also brings request retry and rate-limit backoff. Introduces the
repo's first package.json, lockfile and ESLint flat config; the Hugo site build
itself still needs no Node step.
Output verified against the previous implementation: identical counts and rows
apart from live star drift on four upstream repos.
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