#459 — October 20, 2022 Read on the Web Together with Node.js 19 Released As an odd-numbered release, Node 19 will never become an ‘active LTS’ version, but sits as the ‘current’ release that gets all the tastiest new features until early 2023. It then reaches ‘end of life’ on Read more…
Node.js 19 has arrived. The latest update to the popular JavaScript runtime enables HTTP Keep-Alive by default, a change that should deliver better web throughput. Accessible from nodejs.org, Node.js 19 was released October 18. Beginning with this release, Node.js sets 1keepAlive to true by default. Thus any outgoing HTTP(S) connection Read more…
#458 — October 13, 2022 Read on the Web Together with njt: Quick Navigation to npm Package Resources — Provides a rapid way to jump to various destinations related to npm packages (such as a project’s homepage, repo, issues, or even a package cost estimation). You can install it for Read more…
#457 — October 6, 2022 Read on the Web Together with An Active Typosquatting Campaign Targeting npm Users — Security supply chain company Phylum detected a campaign to ‘typosquat’ against a variety of high profile packages. The idea behind typosquatting is that you claim package names similar to others, such Read more…
MongoDB 6 introduced the capability to query encrypted data in the database. Data is encrypted for the entire round trip: at insert, storage, and query. This amounts to a new level of security for data, which remains secure even as it is used within the database. Only the client application Read more…
Move over, Node.js and Deno. A potential competitor is emerging in the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime space, called Bun. Now in a beta stage of development, Bun is billed as a modern JavaScript runtime akin to Deno or Node, built to start fast, offer new levels of performance, and be a complete Read more…
Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for web servers. Keeping the latency low and the throughput high while scaling up and out is not easy. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that achieves low latency and high throughput by taking a “non-blocking” approach to serving requests. In other Read more…
Deno 1.26, the latest version of the TypeScript/JavaScript runtime that strives to improve on Node.js, emphasizes Node.js compatibility, among other improvements. Deno 1.26 was unveiled September 29. The update includes implementations for several previously unsupported APIs in the Node.js compatibility layer, according to release notes. In addition, the compatibility layer’s Read more…
#456 — September 29, 2022 Read on the Web “Don’t Worry, Nobody is Replacing Node.js” — A bold assertion. Fernando reflects on the growing interest in alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun, but notes none really replace Node.js wholesale in the near future. And even if they did, most of Read more…
#455 — September 22, 2022 Read on the Web 📗 Shell Scripting with Node.js — Axel is too humble to call this an ‘Ultimate Guide’ or the like, but it is. After months digging into the guts of Node, npm, and the technicalities of shell scripting, he’s released a complete Read more…
