App Frameworks
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio Get started building Node.js apps in Visual Studio using built-in project templates. Alternatively, use the command-line scaffolding tools you are already familiar with to generate your project, and import it into Visual Studio with just...
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NodeJS Official
Should Node.js support Web Workers?
#444 — June 30, 2022 Read on the Web Working with the File System from Node.js — Dr. Axel seems to be on a bit of a Node kick lately and comes back this week with a particularly deep dive Read more…
NodeJS Official
9 Deno runtime projects to watch
Deno is championed as a more-secure alternative to the popular Node.js JavaScript runtime. The 1.0 version of the Deno runtime, which leverages the V8 JavaScript engine and was built using Rust, arrived in May 2020. Node.js founder Ryan Dahl even Read more…
Vulnerability
July 5th 2022 Security Releases
Summary The Node.js project will release new versions of the 14.x, 16.x, and 18.x releases lines on or shortly after Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 in order to address: Three medium severity issues. Two high severity issues. Impact The 18.x release Read more…
NodeJS Official
Node.js in the stream.
#443 — June 23, 2022 Read on the Web Using Web Streams in Node.js — Streams provide a handy abstraction for cleanly working with streaming data but Web Streams (a.k.a. WHATWG Streams) are a different, more broadly supported beast to Read more…
Vulnerability
OpenSSL update assessment, and Node.js project plans
Summary The vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL Security releases of Jun 21 2022 do not affect any active Node.js release lines. Analysis Our assessment of the security advisory is: The 1c_rehash script allows command injection (CVE-2022-2068) Node.js doesn’t use or ship Read more…
News Releases
Node v18.4.0 (Current)
Notable Changes crypto: remove Node.js-specific webcrypto extensions (Filip Skokan) #43310 add CFRG curves to Web Crypto API (Filip Skokan) #42507 dns: accept 1’IPv4′ and 1’IPv6′ for 1family (Antoine du Hamel) #43054 report: add more heap infos in process report (theanarkh) Read more…
NodeJS Official
Node 16 to duck out early in September 2023
#442 — June 16, 2022 Read on the Web zx v7.0: Better Script Writing with Node.js — No, not movie scripts, but shell scripts and the like. If writing JavaScript instead of wrestling with bash, Perl or Python sounds better Read more…
NodeJS Official
A big week for Fastify
#441 — June 9, 2022 Read on the Web Fastify 4.0 Released — The first major release of a popular, high performance Node.js Web framework in two years warrants some celebration. A focus has been placed on stabilization, modernization, and Read more…
NodeJS Official
Deno Deploy moves toward GA, adds paid plan
Deno Deploy, a serverless service for running JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly applications at the edge, has moved closer to general availability with the release of Beta 4, which includes a paid service plan. General availability of Deno Deploy is eyed Read more…
NodeJS Official
util.parseArgs arrives in Node 18.3
#440 — June 2, 2022 Read on the Web Node v18.3.0 (Current) Released — It’s not a huge release but there are some solid dependency updates (npm 8.11.0, V8 10.2, Undici 5.4), Windows 32 binary releases are back, and one Read more…
