Google’s Squoosh comes to Node

#​392 — June 10, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Introducing libSquoosh: Experimental Image Optimization from Node — Squoosh is an image optimization web app originally built by a team at Google in 2018 and since then it has been updated and offered in CLI form. Now, Surma has unveiled Read more…

How to CRUD with Node.js and MongoDB

MongoDB was one of the first NoSQL data stores, and it is the most popular NoSQL data store today. The Node.js JavaScript runtime continues to hold a dominate place in back-end development. Together they make a highly flexible and dynamic technology stack. As you’ll see, Node.js and MongoDB allow you Read more…

N-API becomes Node-API

#​389 — May 20, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Adonis v5 Now Out of Preview plus a New Site and Docs — Adonis is a full featured Node web framework which compares itself to Rails, Laravel and Django in terms of scope. v5 brings easier social authentication support and Read more…

RIP Node.js 10

#​387 — May 6, 2021 Read on the Web 🖋 Just a note to say we’re experimenting a little bit with the format of the newsletter over the coming weeks, so if you have any feedback, hit reply and let us know. We’re also always keen for submissions so let Read more…

What’s next for Node.js?

#​386 — April 29, 2021 Read on the Web 🖋 Just in case you missed last week’s issue, it was a big one as Node 16 was released so it’s worth a catch up 🙂 This week is somewhat quieter but a few neat things have been coming in..__Peter Cooper, your Read more…

Prisma ORM for Node.js is ready for production

Prisma, an open source object-relational mapping (ORM) toolset for Node.js and TypeScript, is now available as a production release. Intended to address the bottleneck of working with relational databases, Prisma supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and SQL Server (in preview), with a connector for MongoDB in the works. Unveiling the platform Read more…

Node 16 released

#​385 — April 22, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node.js 16 Available Now — It’s always nice to see Node step another version number ahead (unless, perhaps, you find the upgrading process a bit nervewracking!) and 16 immediately replaces 15.x as the ‘current’ release line with 16 due Read more…