#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…
#563 — January 21, 2025 Read on the Web NodeBB v4.0.0 Released: Node.js Powered Forums — Now almost 12 years old, NodeBB continues to offer a classic forum experience in a modern Node.js-shaped guise. The big update for v4 is support for federation between NodeBB instances and the wider fediverse Read more…
#562 — January 14, 2025 Read on the Web A New Chapter for Express.js — 2024 saw the still-extremely-popular Express project awaken from a slumber, of sorts, with work being made to update things to modern standards, a security audit, and the release of Express v5. Here, the team explains Read more…
#561 — January 7, 2025 Read on the Web Happy New Year! We’re now back every week all the way till mid February, so if you’ve got anything you want to submit for inclusion in a future issue, now’s a great time to hit Reply and let me know 🙂__Peter Cooper Read more…
#560 — December 17, 2024 Read on the Web 🎄 This week we cover a few news items but quickly get into a 2024 roundup of Node news and the most clicked items of the year. Then we’re taking a Christmas break for two weeks and will be back on Read more…
#559 — December 10, 2024 Read on the Web 🎄 The Node world is experiencing a post-Thanksgiving interfestal lull, so this issue includes a few items we overlooked earlier this year. Next week brings our usual annual roundup, though, so keep your eyes peeled for that before the festive break 🙂__Peter Read more…
#558 — December 3, 2024 Read on the Web Skia Canvas 2.0: A Browserless Canvas Environment for Node — Based on Google’s Skia graphics engine and offers end results similar to Chrome’s own canvas system. It’s GPU accelerated and can render images, paths, fonts, shapes, and (almost) everything you’d expect. Read more…
#557 — November 26, 2024 Read on the Web Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did you know Oracle formally owns the ‘JavaScript’ trademark? There have been a few efforts to change this over the years (most recently via this open letter) but Oracle isn’t listening. The Deno Read more…
#556 — November 19, 2024 Read on the Web AWS Lambda Turns Ten: Looking Back and Looking Ahead — AWS Lambda, Amazon’s cloud function service, essentially launched the term ‘serverless’ and had a big impact on the use of Node.js in the cloud with Node v0.10 being the first and Read more…
#555 — November 12, 2024 Read on the Web Node v23.2.0 (Current) Released — On paper, a relatively minor release that updates the root certificates, adding five new ones, but development of TypeScript support has now moved into active development (as opposed to ‘early development’) and there’s a new 1module.stripTypeScriptTypes Read more…
