Testing UDP on ESP8266 - problems with newest 1.94+. Using UDP broadcast for Alexa integration

It looks like dgramSocket.send only works after running dgramSocket.bind.

I need to run the following first:

const dgram = require('dgram');
const socket = dgram.createSocket('udp4');
socket.bind(port, res => {});

Then I'm able to do something like:
socket.send('hi',3333,'192.168.1.1');

Interestingly enough, running send() FIRST seems to queue up the request. Upon running bind() later, the UDP packet gets sent.

I imagine that bind() must be running some sort of UDP initialization. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not but could explain why it seems difficult to send a UDP packet initially from Espruino.

For now, I'm okay with this workaround. I can just wrap a dummy bind() call in a initializeUdp() function.

Btw, I'm in 1v96 using a D1 mini pro.