#381 — March 25, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Piscina: A Fast Worker Thread Pool Implementation — Node now offers worker threads which bring true multithreading to Node apps and Piscina is a pool for tracking and controlling the number of such threads (including being able to cancel them). Read more…
#380 — March 18, 2021 Read on the Web 👋 Hi. This week we’ve got another package maintainer interview for you, this time with frontend engineer Krasimir Tsonev, the creator of a Puppeteer test runner called Miss-Piggy (you’ll find out why it’s called that too) — it’s at the very Read more…
#379 — March 11, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly The Death of a Node.js Process — Writing code to do stuff is fun, but do you ever think about what happens when your creation is either ready to terminate or gets cut off in its prime? Thomas looks Read more…
#378 — March 4, 2021 Read on the Web 👋 To help with the ‘no big news in the Node world this week’ problem we’re encountering sometimes, we’re interviewing maintainers of different Node projects so you can get a look behind the scenes of their work. This week we have Read more…
Deno 1.8, released on March 2, offers preliminary support for an API to bring enhanced machine learning to the secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime. Experimental backing for the WebGPU API, for performing operations such as rendering and computation on a GPU, provides a path toward out-of-the-box GPU accelerated machine learning in Deno, Read more…
#377 — February 25, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Tauri: A New(ish) Framework for Building Desktop Apps with a Web Frontend — Electron is the big cheese in the ‘build desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS’ space but other contenders are now coming along including this Rust-based one. Read more…
#376 — February 18, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Avoiding npm Substitution Attacks — Recently there have been some high profile examples of supply chain attacks on popular source code repositories, such as where fake or eponymous packages are published, but you can reduce your attack surface by Read more…
#375 — February 11, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly How to Generate Thumbnails using AWS Lambda from Videos Uploaded to S3 — A perfect pairing of serverless and Node. This thorough walkthrough covers using Node to tie together processing new videos uploaded to an S3 bucket, running FFmpeg Read more…
Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for web servers. Keeping the latency low and the throughput high while scaling up and out is not easy. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that achieves low latency and high throughput by taking a “non-blocking” approach to serving requests. In other Read more…
Deno, a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime promising stronger security and a superior developer experience to Node.js, reached its 1.0 release status on May 13, 2020. Created by Ryan Dahl, who also created Node.js, Deno was designed to address a number of Node’s shortcomings, particularly security. (Deno is an anagram of Node.) The project became Read more…
