#541 — July 23, 2024 Read on the Web Node.js v22.5.0 (Current) Released – But Don’t Install It! — A notable release for three reasons: first, the WebSocket feature in 1node:http is now exposed. Second, remember how Node is embedding SQLite? 1node:sqlite is now included and ready to play with. Third, however, Read more…
#540 — July 16, 2024 Read on the Web A Guide to Reading and Writing Node.js Streams — A post from the creator of Fastify (and a Node.js TSC member) is always a treat. Matteo reminds us of the benefits of using Node’s powerful streaming data features, where they make Read more…
#539 — July 9, 2024 Read on the Web Node to Get SQLite Built-In? — Deno has its own built in key/value store powered by SQLite – perhaps Node could gain similar powers by this initial effort to bake SQLite into the Node distribution. It’s early days, but interesting to Read more…
#538 — July 2, 2024 Read on the Web How We Tamed Node.js Event Loop Lag: A Deepdive — Node famously uses very few threads yet can handle a large number of clients performantly, as long as the work associated with each client is ‘small.’ When you get nested loops, Read more…
#537 — June 25, 2024 Read on the Web ✈️ I’ve produced this issue a day early due to being en-route to the AI Engineer World’s Fair, so any last minute news may be missed. If you’re there, do come and say hi, but you can also watch from afar Read more…
#536 — June 18, 2024 Read on the Web Node v22.3.0 (Current) Released — One of those releases where lots of tiny things have occurred, but little of broad significance, except… for snapshot testing! Snapshot tests serialize arbitrary values into string values to be compared against a set of pre-built Read more…
#535 — June 11, 2024 Read on the Web Node is Leaking Memory? 1setTimeout Could Be The Reason — The folks at Sentry were running into problems with how Node handles timeouts created with 1setTimeout or, more specifically, problems caused by hanging on to the 1Timeout objects 1setTimeout returns.. Armin Read more…
#534 — June 4, 2024 Read on the Web 🫣 Node Weekly took a break last week, but we forgot to notify you in advance – sorry! You didn’t miss anything, and we’re catching up with the past two weeks today 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper 10 Modern Node.js Runtime Features to Read more…
Deno Land has released Deno 1.44, the latest version of the JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime rivaling Node.js. The upgrade adds support for private NPM registries, letting developers use internal packages with Deno by configuring an .npmrc file. Performance of the Deno runtime also has been improved. To read this Read more…
#533 — May 21, 2024 Read on the Web Node v22.2.0 (Current) Released — A less significant release, feature-wise, than 22.0 or 22.1, but lots of little bug fixes, tweaks around core dev experience, getting Node’s built-in ESLint rules ready for ESLint v9, and the 1–inspect-wait flag to make the Read more…
