Deno Deploy, a serverless service for running JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly applications at the edge, has moved closer to general availability with the release of Beta 4, which includes a paid service plan. General availability of Deno Deploy is eyed for the third quarter of this year. Announced May 24, Read more…
#440 — June 2, 2022 Read on the Web Node v18.3.0 (Current) Released — It’s not a huge release but there are some solid dependency updates (npm 8.11.0, V8 10.2, Undici 5.4), Windows 32 binary releases are back, and one notable new (experimental) feature: the 1util.parseArgs function for bringing an Read more…
🇺🇦 #439 — May 26, 2022 Read on the Web TypeScript 4.7 Released — We wouldn’t usually make TypeScript a top feature in Node Weekly although many of you are using it, but this release has a huge feature in the shape of ES module support for Node – a feature Read more…
🇺🇦 #438 — May 19, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Web Scraping via JS Runtime Heap Snapshots — When official APIs don’t offer all of the access users require (or don’t exist at all) scraping can become a less than ideal necessity. Puppeteer or Playwright make controlling a Read more…
🇺🇦 #437 — May 12, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly An Enhanced 2FA Experience for Your 1npm Account — Over the past six months, GitHub has been keen to tighten up security around the publishing of 1npm packages with two-factor authentication at the heart of the effort. Now Read more…
Developers of the Deno JavaScript and TypeScript runtime are exploring the possibility of JavaScript containers—and the JavaScript sandbox itself—as a higher-level alternative to Linux containers. In a blog post this week, Ryan Dahl, who spearheaded development of both the Deno and Node.js JavaScript runtimes, cited JavaScript as the “universal scripting Read more…
#436 — May 5, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v18.1.0 (Current) Released — There’s an initial version of a CLI based test runner (which you start with 1node –test – see docs here) and there have also been further developments on implementing the WebAssembly Web API. Michaël Zasso The Read more…
Deno 1.21 has been released. This latest upgrade to the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime features improvements to the REPL (read-evaluate-print loop) and a move away from default type-checking. The Deno REPL is a tool for prototyping and trying out new things. With Deno 1.21, an 1-–eval-file flag can be used with the Read more…
🇺🇦 #435 — April 28, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node 18’s ‘Prefix-Only’ Core Modules — A look at a new type of core module that can’t be imported quite like the others, e.g. 1import test from ‘node:test’ – what is this unusual package name notation about? Colin Read more…
🇺🇦 #434 — April 21, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node.js 18 (Current) Released — Almost exactly one year after Node 16 and two after Node 14 comes the newest version of Node. It’s a ‘current’ branch release for now, but will become an LTS (Long-Term Support) release Read more…
