#​529 — April 23, 2024 Read on the Web ▶  A Node.js Streams Masterclass — What a treat! Join the creator of Fastify, as well as Node.js TSC member, on an hour long odyssey into the world of streams, a topic in which he specializes. He starts off quite poetically .. a stream is like an array over time .. before quickly getting on to some live coding and demos. This is one in a series of events put on by Platformatic. (75 minutes.) Matteo Collina The Perf Gains of Adding a Task Runner to Node.js — Instead of running npm run test, how does n ..read more

#​528 — April 16, 2024 Read on the Web A Trip Report from the Latest Node.js Collaboration Summit — Twice a year, Node's collaborators and community members meet at collaboration summits to share knowledge, discuss problems, and flesh out new ideas. The last one took place in London earlier this month and featured discussion on Node’s HTTP stack, a new node --run feature, ES modules support, package management, and more. A good update! Joyee Cheung Profiling Node Performance with Chrome's Performance Panel — Learn how to profile Node.js performance with ..read more

#​527 — April 9, 2024 Read on the Web zx v8.0: Google's Way to Write Shell Scripts with Node — A long-standing way to make scripting a more pleasant experience. zx provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults. v8.0 somehow makes zx 20x smaller, faster, makes it easier to kill processes, pass input to commands, and more. A substantial release. Google Build a RAG Chatbot App with MongoDB and Node.js — Embark on the RAG to Riches Developer Quest — a month of innovation, learning, and exclusive rewards awaits ..read more

#​525 — March 19, 2024 Read on the Web Bringing require(esm) to Node — Joyee writes about landing experimental support for require()-ing synchronous ES modules in Node, a feature that has been a long time coming, due to both technical and cultural factors. Joyee Cheung Building a Node App with TypeScript — Learn how to set up TypeScript to bundle a Node app using pnpm, Node, TypeScript, and ES modules for a seamless development experience, all from someone who knows a thing or two about TypeScript! Matt Pocock Memetria: Secure, Scalable Redis ..read more

#​524 — March 12, 2024 Read on the Web Shiki 1.0: A Powerful Syntax Highlighter — A few months ago, we linked to Shikiji, a fork of Shiki that was created to push the project forward. Happily, the creators of both libraries decided to join forces and Shiki 1.0 was born. It’s a syntax highlighter based on TextMate grammar and themes, the same engine as used by VS Code. The docs are good. Pine Wu, Anthony Fu Node v21.7.0 (Current) Released — Sometimes minor Node versions have little beyond bug fixes, but other times you get some new features, and 21.7 doe ..read more

#​523 — March 5, 2024 Read on the Web Deno Introduces JSR: A New JavaScript Registry — The JavaScript Registry (a.k.a. JSR) is a new TypeScript-first, ESM-only module registry designed for the entire JavaScript ecosystem (not just Deno). This post digs into what it’s all about. I find it rather cute that npm’s own flexibility makes JSR easy to use from Node too, via npx jsr! Dahl, Casonato, and Whinnery Express.js 4.18.3: A Small Step for a Framework.. — .. but a giant leap for Express-kind? ? The first new release of Express.js in over sixteen months h ..read more

#​521 — February 20, 2024 Read on the Web Apologies if you noticed there was no Node Weekly last week. This was intentional, but I forgot to mention it in advance. It's the usual weekly service now until Easter, at least.. :-) __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Node Community Debates Enabling Corepack by Default — Node developers are wrestling with the decision to enable Corepack (a tool for managing package managers) by default, which has sparked a debate about the possibility of even removing npm from the Node.js binary. (Unlikely IMO, but hey.) Sarah ..read more

#​520 — February 6, 2024 Read on the Web Wasp: A Rails-Like Framework for React, Node and Prisma — A common complaint I’ve seen about the Node ecosystem on social media is the lack of a ‘big framework’. This seems unfair with Sails and AdonisJS providing at least two options, but Wasp is another compelling option that even refers to itself as Rails-like. There’s a lot to like, particularly with the release of the ‘Open SaaS’ SaaS starter app that can take you several steps down the road to building an app in minutes. Wasp, Inc. Learn Advanced JavaScript ..read more

#​519 — January 30, 2024 Read on the Web AdonisJS v6: The Complete Web Framework — If you want a TypeScript-first backend Web framework with amazing docs and packed with features out the box, Adonis is worth a look. v6 takes a huge step forward by using ESM by default, offering significantly more type safety overall (including for routes and middleware references), a new validation library, and more. Harminder Virk Memetria: Secure, Scalable Redis Hosting — High performance Redis hosting with large key tracking, detailed metrics, and a superior uptime&n ..read more

#​518 — January 23, 2024 Read on the Web Microsoft TypeSpec: A TypeScript-Inspired Way to Define APIs — A language for concisely describing cloud service APIs and generating other API description languages (e.g. OpenAPI), client and service code, docs, and more. Formerly known as CADL. – GitHub repo. Microsoft Cryptography Fundamentals with the crypto Module — An introduction to some concepts of modern cryptography, and how to work with them in practical terms in Node using methods from the crypto module (which has rather intimidating-looking docum ..read more