This is one of the purposes I think Deno should have been built for: Use JavaScript for oneliners in the command line. We had

    ... | deno xeval '...stdin processing code using special var $'

which was close to xargs in terms of conciseness. Unfortunately, it was removed as being considered "too niche" [1].

[1] https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/3230