Deno 1.16, the latest version of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, features support for a new JSX transform and WebAssembly reference types. The newly supported JSX transform, which is featured in the React 17 JavaScript UI library, both improves the JSX transform API and allows automatic importing of the JSX runtime library. Read more…
#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…
#412 — November 4, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly A Comprehensive Guide to Error Handling in Node — Node offers up more than enough ways for errors to crop up and exceptions to be thrown – this blog post skims through some of the main areas to consider. Ayooluwa Read more…
TypeScript 4.5, a planned upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed language based on JavaScript, will not include support for ECMAScript modules in Node.js 12 after all. This capability was planned for TypeScript 4.5 when the beta was revealed on October 1, but has been deferred to a future release. Meanwhile, it Read more…
#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…
#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…
Deno 1.15, the latest release of the JavaScript runtime positioned as a secure alternative to Node.js, features a new flag that makes it easier to run Node.js programs in Deno. Deno 1.15 was published October 12. When the 1–compat flag is present, Deno will automatically set up Node global variables, Read more…
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 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…
#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…
