A proposal to make npm safer?

#​413 — November 11, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node-RED in Industrial IoT: A Growing Standard — Node-RED is a very long standing Node.js-based ‘low code’ environment where you wire components together. As explained here, it’s heavily used in IoT scenarios and is even taking on established commercial systems. Read more…

Node v16 goes LTS

#​411 — October 28, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Supercharging Node with Rust — As fast as the V8 team have made JavaScript, it’s still a dynamic language at the end of the day, and there are faster options such as Rust, C or C++ if you need Read more…

Node v17 released

#​410 — October 21, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v17 (Current) Released — Being sixteen flew by in a flash for me at least, but so too has it for Node 16 remaining the cutting edge ‘release’ line. v17 now takes over that role with Node 16 Read more…

Node.js 17 arrives with more promise-based APIs

Node.js 17 has been released. The latest version of the popular JavaScript runtime brings more “promisified” APIs and support for OpenSSL 3.0. Downloadable from the Node.js website, Node.js 17 follows a strategic initiative to provide promise-based core APIs. This version adds promise-based APIs for the Readline module, which offers an Read more…

TypeScript adds ESM support for Node.js

TypeScript 4.5, a planned upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed language based on JavaScript, is set to support ECMAScript modules in Node.js. TypeScript 4.5 became available as a beta release on October 1. Node.js, which can work with TypeScript, has been working to support ECMAScript modules (ESM), which enable packaging of Read more…

Three new security related Node releases

#​409 — October 14, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly The GitHub Advisory Database Now Powers 1npm audit — 1npm audit is a command you can run to scan your project’s dependencies for known security vulnerabilities. Edward Thomson (GitHub) Node 16.11.1, 14.18.1, and 12.22.7 Released — Billed as the ‘October Read more…

Is Node really ‘hated’?

#​408 — October 7, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Writing Clean JavaScript Tests with the BASIC Principles — An introduction to applying several key principles to shorten, clean, and simplify JavaScript and Node.js-based test suites. Yoni Goldberg Eleventy 1.0 Beta 1 Released — Eleventy (a.k.a. 11ty) is a very Read more…