#427 — March 3, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Running Commands with 1execa in Node — We’ve linked to Sindre Sorhus’ popular execa process execution library many times over the years, but here’s a thorough tutorial which also shows off the value 1execa brings over the vanilla 1child_process Read more…
#426 — February 24, 2022 Read on the Web 😔 It’s a difficult day for the world, and as such our thoughts are with everyone affected by events currently taking place in Europe. __Peter Cooper — Editor Node Weekly Node v17.6.0 (Current) Released — Adds experimental support for importing ES Read more…
#425 — February 17, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Express.js 5.0 Now in Beta — Considering that the first alpha of 5.0 was over seven years ago, this is a big step for the still wildly popular Web app library. There’s also thorough docs of the 5.x API here. Read more…
Node.js trademarks have been transferred to the OpenJS Foundation from Joyent, the company that originally led the development of the popular JavaScript runtime. With the move, announced February 14, the OpenJS Foundation will be responsible for ongoing management of the trademarks. A project of the Linux Foundation, OpenJS has hosted Read more…
#424 — February 10, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Pintora: An Extensible Text-to-Diagram Rendering Library — A similar idea to the well established Mermaid.js, but with a different attitude to extensibility as well as no requirement for a headless browser server-side. The introduction docs have both visual and Read more…
#423 — February 3, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly The Fetch API Comes to Node Core (and Why You Should Care) — Support for the Fetch API (as commonly used browser-side for fetching resources) has been merged into Node.js and will be available behind a 1‑‑experimental‑fetch flag until, Read more…
With Deno 1.18, an upgrade to the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime positioned as a Node.js alternative, the Deno project’s developers have completed the Web Cryptography API. Deno’s Web Crypto API was finalized after a six-month effort. Deno now passes 98.1% of the web platform test suite for the API, according to release Read more…
#422 — January 27, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Trilium Notes: A Knowledge Base App Build with Node — A hierarchical note taking app. Built as an Express app but is most commonly used on the desktop via an Electron packaged version. It’s been around a few years Read more…
#421 — January 20, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly Remix vs Next.js — While this is a comparison written by the Remix team, it seems open about its methodology and tries to be fair in its comparison. The comparison (and sometimes implicit criticism) of Jamstack has been a Read more…
#420 — January 13, 2022 Read on the Web Node Weekly JavaScript Developer Breaks Two Popular npm Packages — The creator of Faker.js and colors.js, two packages we’ve mentioned quite often, made some unorthodox commits to his projects recently that caused them to either disappear or break in interesting ways Read more…
