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Announcing Deno 2: Node Done Right, Again(?) — What if the inventor of Node got to do it all over again? Deno! v2.0 refines the recipe with a focus on backwards compatibility with Node, an area surely impeding adoption till now. We love the ▶️ epic ‘Announcing Deno 2’ video recorded by Ryan and the team – it’s a mix of entertainment and a ‘keynote-style’ tour of everything modern Deno has to offer, if you’ve not yet been convinced.
How Bun Supports V8 APIs Without Using V8 — Bun uses the JavaScriptCore engine, not V8, yet it can support Node addons that rely upon V8’s APIs. Here’s how it works under the hood.
Ben Grant (Bun)
Announcing TypeScript 5.7 Beta — The newest TypeScript is on the way. As always, there’s a laundry list of enhancements and features, but the path rewriting for relative paths is a particularly welcome addition for those building server-side apps, enabling easy rewrites of
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Microsoft
Node vs Bun: No Backend Performance Difference? — You can always trust a benchmark to ruffle some feathers, often over the methodology rather than the result. This is no exception, but interesting nonetheless.
Node Version Manager Desktop 4.0 — A Tauri-powered desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux to manage multiple installed versions of Node on your system.
but with many extra options for tree-ifying, coloring, sorting, choosing what to display, etc.
Effectful Technologies Inc
🤖KaibanJS: A Framework for Building Multi-Agent Systems — Why let Python have all the AI and LLM fun? KaibanJS promises to ‘fill the void’ by offering a JS-first framework specifically for building LLM-powered AI agents.
Files from JavaScript — The code to lay out documents is verbose but there’s a lot of functionality baked in and there aren’t many other options for this task. Here’s a CodePen-based example to give you an idea. GitHub repo.
#550 — October 1, 2024 Read on the Web µExpress / Ultimate Express: Like Express, But Faster? — It’s not Express, but a reimplementation of Express’s functionality with API compatibility. Based on µWebSockets, and with Read more…
#549 — September 24, 2024 Read on the Web The Nine Node Pillars: Principles for Doing Node Right in the Enterprise — An interesting resource from a group of prolific and productive Node.js contributors. It’s Read more…
#548 — September 17, 2024 Read on the Web nano-spawn: Tiny Execa-Inspired Process Execution — If you’re familiar with Sindre’s powerful Execa for running commands from a Node app in a robust manner, 1nano-spawn offers Read more…
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