Say hi to Rocket Turtle

#​522 — February 27, 2024 Read on the Web 🚀🐢  𝕏 Meet Node’s New Mascot? — Over on Twitter/X, the official Node account unveiled the result of the Node.js mascot design contest that ran recently, and Node’s new mascot is… Rocket Turtle (as seen above) by Angela Angelini. The folks over Read more…

Deno shrinks deno compile binaries

The developers of the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime have reduced the size of 1deno compile binaries and introduced an official Linux ARM64 build with the newly released Deno 1.41 version. This latest release of the Node.js rival was unveiled February 22. Users can upgrade their Deno installation by running the following Read more…

To npm, or not to (include) npm?

#​521 — February 20, 2024 Read on the Web Apologies if you noticed there was no Node Weekly last week. This was intentional, but I forgot to mention it in advance. It’s the usual weekly service now until Easter, at least.. 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper Node Community Debates Enabling Corepack by Read more…

An open SaaS boilerplate app

#​520 — February 6, 2024 Read on the Web Wasp: A Rails-Like Framework for React, Node and Prisma — A common complaint I’ve seen about the Node ecosystem on social media is the lack of a ‘big framework’. This seems unfair with Sails and AdonisJS providing at least two options, Read more…

Adonis v6

#​519 — January 30, 2024 Read on the Web AdonisJS v6: The Complete Web Framework — If you want a TypeScript-first backend Web framework with amazing docs and packed with features out the box, Adonis is worth a look. v6 takes a huge step forward by using ESM by default, Read more…

Neural network chess

#​518 — January 23, 2024 Read on the Web Microsoft TypeSpec: A TypeScript-Inspired Way to Define APIs — A language for concisely describing cloud service APIs and generating other API description languages (e.g. OpenAPI), client and service code, docs, and more. Formerly known as CADL. – GitHub repo. Microsoft Cryptography Fundamentals with Read more…

npm by the numbers

#​517 — January 16, 2024 Read on the Web npm in Review: A Retrospective in Numbers — From Socket comes a look at the past year from the perspective of the npm registry, focused largely on statistics (2.5 million live packages!), including download numbers, popular packages, as well as some Read more…

The latest npm registry shenanigans

#​516 — January 9, 2024 Read on the Web When ‘Everything’ Becomes Too Much: Fresh npm Package Chaos — While many of us were taking a break, some folks published an ‘ 1everything ‘ package that depended upon all public npm packages, resulting in millions of transitive dependencies. This caused.. some Read more…