#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…
#532 — May 14, 2024 Read on the Web Execa 9.0: The Better 1child_process Gets Even Better — Less shell-oriented than zx, 1execa focuses on making executing external commands secure, cross-platform, and easy to debug. v9 lets you make commands iterable so you can process their output on the fly, Read more…
With newly introduced Deno 1.43, the developers of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime have enhanced its language server, speeding up auto-completion performance and improving memory consumption. Introduced May 1, Deno 1.43 can be accessed via running the 1deno upgrade command in a terminal. Deno Land developers have reworked many aspects of the Read more…
#531 — May 7, 2024 Read on the Web Five Node Version Managers Compared — In an ideal world, the latest version of Node would slot well into every project, but in reality we often need to switch versions, and a variety of tools are available to make it simple. Read more…
#530 — April 30, 2024 Read on the Web Node.js 22.0 (Current) Released — The latest major version of Node is here. Note that it’s a ‘Current’ release for now, so gets all the newest features first, but is due to become Node’s main active LTS release this October. As Read more…
Node.js 22, the latest version of the popular JavaScript runtime, has arrived, featuring 1require() support for ECMAScript modules, an improved WebSocket client, and an updated version of the Google V8 JavaScript engine. Announced April 24, version 22 of the event-driven, asynchronous runtime can be downloaded from Nodejs.org. The release adds 1require() Read more…
