#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…
#554 — November 5, 2024 Read on the Web Why Code Security Matters – Even in Hardened Environments — A nicely diagrammed deep dive (and it really is deep) into a technique that allows malicious parties to turn a file write vulnerability in a Node app into a remote code Read more…
#553 — October 29, 2024 Read on the Web Transformers.js v3: Now You Can Run Transformers in Node.js — A JavaScript port of Hugging Face’s 1transformers Python library that makes it possible to run natural language, vision, and audio machine learning models. v3 adds WebGPU support and now supports Node Read more…
#552 — October 22, 2024 Read on the Web Node v23.0.0 (Current) Released — Say hello to the newest release line of Node.js that gets all the cutting edge features first (Node 22 will soon become the active LTS release). v23 notably enables support for loading ES modules with 1require() Read more…
#551 — October 15, 2024 Read on the Web 😅 If you didn’t get Node Weekly last week, don’t panic – no one did! We were taking a scheduled week off, but unfortunately forgot to notify you in the previous issue. We’re now back every Tuesday till December 17 and Read more…
