A TypeScript release targeted at Node developers

#​565 — February 4, 2025

Read on the Web

Announcing TypeScript 5.8 Beta: A Big One for Node Developers — It’s unusual for a TypeScript beta to be exciting for Node developers in particular, but while TypeScript 5.8 is low on features generally, it’s really Node focused with support for

mode, a stable

, and most notably a

option for ensuring the use of TypeScript that Node 22.6+’s type-stripping features can deal with.

Daniel Rosenwasser

Introducing Mentoss: The

Mocker — A new approach to mocking global

calls (in both browsers and server-side runtimes) inspired by previous attempts like Nock and MSW.

Nicholas C. Zakas

Memetria K/V: Efficient Redis & Valkey Hosting — Memetria K/V hosts Redis OSS and Valkey for Node.js apps, featuring large key tracking and detailed analytics to manage and optimize application data effectively.

Memetria sponsor

Standard Schema: A Common Interface to Schema / Validation Libraries — From the creators of Zod, Valibot and ArkType comes a fantastic bit of collaboration to define a common interface to use JavaScript and TypeScript schema libraries.

McDonnell, Hiller, and Blass

IN BRIEF:

• Node.js v23.7.0 (Current) has been released with many bug fixes and tweaks. You can now use glob patterns in the

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  exclude

  option of glob functions and there’s a new error to let TypeScript users know unsupported TypeScript features are present in their code.

• Josh Goldberg explains the differences between ESLint and TypeScript, beyond the obvious.

• Publican is a promising, new, Node.js-powered static site generator.

• Harmony, from Bit, describes itself as a ‘minimalistic stitching layer for composable architectures’ – think a cross between monoliths and microservices without the downsides of each.

The Modern Way to Write JavaScript Servers? — The irony is that while Node popularized JavaScript on the server (if we ignore Netscape’s attempts in the 90s) this modern, standardized cross-runtime approach doesn’t quite work on bare Node (yet – though you can polyfill it.)

Marvin Hagemeister

Start Selling to Enterprise Faster with WorkOS — Add SSO, SCIM, and RBAC to your B2B SaaS app in minutes—not months.

WorkOS sponsor

📄 How We Share Secrets at a Fully-Remote Startup – And, curiously, it involves using Node. Dmitry Sagalovskiy

📄 Keep Your Node Apps Secure with

Trevor I. Lasn

📄 How to Use Node’s

in the Browser for Custom Playgrounds Ivan Chebykin

📄 Distributed Tracing in Node.js with OpenTelemetry Ayooluwa Isaiah

🛠 Code & Tools

parse-duration 2.0: Convert a Human Readable Duration to Milliseconds — You might wonder why a library that converts

into

needs a version 2. Well, it now supports more units (

,

,

, and

), has moved to ESM, and supports locales.

Jake Rosoman

Node File Trace (NFT): Node Dependency Tracing Utility — A tool to determine exactly which files are necessary for an app to run. Finally, a type of NFT I can actually comprehend!

Vercel

Feluda: A Tool to Analyze the Licences of Dependencies — It’s a Rust-powered project but one which can be used to process the dependencies of Node, Go, or Rust projects and return a report (or show a TUI interface) on potentially restrictive licenses that apply.

Kumar Anirudha

📄 docxtemplater: Generate

Documents from Templates — Generate Word and PowerPoint files dynamically by merging against template documents (e.g. invoices, contracts, certificates) It’s open source (MIT/GPLv3) but the creator offers commercial extensions (such as for supporting Excel). GitHub repo and feature demos.

Edgar Hipp

http-status: Another Way to Work with HTTP Status Codes — For example:

returns

and

returns 

.

Adaltas

• get-value 4.0 – Use property paths (

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  a.b.c

  ) get a nested value from an object.

• 🤖 OpenAI Node 4.82 – The official Node library for OpenAI’s API adds support for their new

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  o3-mini

   model.

• sqs-consumer 11.5 – The BBC’s solution to building AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) apps sans boilerplate.

• exiftool-vendored 29.1 – Cross-platform access to ExifTool for managing metadata in multimedia files.

• Wasp 0.16 – Wasp is a Rails-like framework using Node, React & Prisma.

• 🤖 node-llama-cpp 3.5 – Run LLMs locally with bindings to 

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  llama.cpp

  .

• Neutralinojs 5.6 – Lightweight cross-platform desktop app approach.

• MongoDB Node.js Driver 6.13 – The latest official MongoDB driver.

• pnpm 10.2 – The alternative, efficient package manager.

• Prisma 6.3 – Popular ORM for Node.js and TypeScript.

• pino-http 10.4 – High-speed HTTP logger for Node.

📢  Elsewhere in JavaScript

A quick roundup of some of other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them:

• 🤣 The Deno vs Oracle JavaScript™ trademark case rolls on with Oracle just barely meeting a deadline to file a motion to dismiss the case. Oracle asserts that “relevant consumers do not perceive JAVASCRIPT as a generic term” and implies JavaScript is quite clearly theirs in the eyes of the public thanks to the popularity of their Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET).

• The JSR open source registry, created by the Deno team, now has an independent governing board of directors with a policy of ‘open governance’ in order to provide value to the entire JavaScript community.

• 📊 Vercel has acquired the team behind Tremor, a popular suite of React components for building charts and dashboards. The plan is to enhance v0 with Tremor’s work and to open-source more components.

• The creator of SolidJS says that Angular and Vue are the frameworks to watch in 2025, while reflecting on JS framework progress generally.

• Bun 1.2.2 has been released with big drops in idle memory usage.