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#​567 — February 25, 2025 Read on the Web 👋 Just in case you missed the message, we took last week off but we’re back now until Easter, so you didn’t miss anything. 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor. Subverting Control with Weak References — Node supports 1WeakMap and 1WeakRef for working with Read more…

#​566 — February 11, 2025 Read on the Web 🏖️ We’re taking next week off, so the next issue will be on Tuesday, February 25. Feel free to hit reply and send in any submissions!__Peter Cooper, your editor. How to Publish ESM-Based npm Packages with TypeScript — Now that you Read more…

#​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 1require() Read more…

#​564 — January 28, 2025 Read on the Web A Failed Attempt to Shrink All npm Packages by 5% — What if you could shrink all npm package sizes by 5%.. wouldn’t that benefit all of us? Here’s how one developer did just that using Zopfli compression and then made Read more…