#515 — December 19, 2023 Read on the Web The Best of Node Weekly in 2023 It’s the final issue of the year, so in our usual tradition, we’re revisiting 2023’s most popular items. There’s sure to be a few that escaped your attention or you’ve since forgotten about, so enjoy! Read more…
#514 — December 12, 2023 Read on the Web ✍️ We’re prepping our annual roundup issue for next week, just before we take our Christmas break, so keep an eye out for that. We’re also considering the future. We’re exploring covering some extra server-side and non-browser topics, like Bun, Deno, serverless, Read more…
#513 — December 5, 2023 Read on the Web Node v21.3.0 and v21.4.0 (Current) Released — We’ve mentioned it in passing, but Node has gained a new 1–disable-warning option to disable specific warnings (as opposed to all warnings). There’s also a perf boost for 1fs.writeFileSync to work up to 2.5x Read more…
Deno Land, the developers of the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, have introduced Deno Cron, a feature the company describes as an easy way to create scheduled jobs. Announced November 29 and available behind the 1–unstable flag in Deno 1.38, 1Deno.cron() is a function that takes three parameters: the name of the Read more…
#512 — November 28, 2023 Read on the Web Node.js Download Statistics — Node.js TSC member Matteo has put together a handy site that visualizes the publicly available Node.js download statistics, partly as a way to help guide you as to which versions and which architectures need the most support. Read more…
#511 — November 21, 2023 Read on the Web ‘A Node + TypeScript + ts-node + ESM Experience That Works’ — It’s just three files: 1package.json , 1tsconfig.json and a utilities file, and you’re good to go. As someone on Hacker News said: “Sometimes the most valuable guide is a Read more…
#510 — November 14, 2023 Read on the Web 36 Node CLI App Best Practices — From the creator of several Node-based CLI tools comes this helpful collection of best practices for building “successful, empathic and user-friendly” CLI tools using Node, plus an appendix rounding up popular CLI framework options. Liran Read more…
#509 — November 7, 2023 Read on the Web Awesome Node Security: A Curated List of Node Security Resources — Includes links to libraries like Helmet (which just had a new release a few hours ago), educational resources, tools, and even stories of incidents like the left-pad incident (which, somehow, was Read more…
The Deno runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly has been updated with new HTML capabilities. The latest updates enhance documentation and client-side navigation in both Deno and the Fresh web framework. Unveiled November 2, Deno 1.38 offers “significant” improvements to the 1deno doc command, highlighted by an ability to produce Read more…
#508 — October 31, 2023 Read on the Web Node v21.1 (Current) Released with ESM Detection Feature — “The new flag 1–experimental-detect-module can be used to automatically run ES modules when their syntax can be detected. … We hope to make detection enabled by default in a future version.” Michaël Zasso Read more…
