#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…
Node.js 16 was released on April 20, adding Apple Silicon binaries and additional stable APIs to the popular JavaScript runtime. The release is the first to ship with prebuilt binaries for Apple Silicon. While Node.js will provide separate tarballs for the Intel and Arm architectures, the MacOS installer will be Read more…
#384 — April 15, 2021 Read on the Web 👋 If you’ve enjoyed our previous package maintainer interviews, we’re back with a bumper sized one today in the shape of some Q&A with the creators of Middy, the AWS Lambda middleware system for Node. Enjoy it at the end of Read more…
The latest version of the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime features native HTTP/2 web server capabilities. Deno 1.9 was introduced April 13. For this release, the developers enlisted hyper, a fast HTTP implementation based on the Rust language, to build a new native HTTP/2 server API in Deno. The prior TypeScript-based HTTP Read more…
#383 — April 8, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly April 2021 Security Releases Out Now — As mentioned last week, releases were on their way to fix a variety of high severity security issues and 15.14.0 (Latest), 14.16.1 (LTS), 12.22.1 (LTS) and 10.24.1 (LTS) are now here. More Read more…
#382 — April 1, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly How to Migrate Your App from Express to Fastify — Simon Plenderleith demonstrates what makes Fastify a great alternative, and how to migrate an existing Node.js app from Express to Fastify. It must be the week for it, too, Read more…
The creators of Deno have formed the Deno Company, a business venture around the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime and rival to Node.js. In a bulletin on March 29, Deno creator Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, both of whom also led the development of Node.js, announced the formation of the company and said Read more…
#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…
