#502 — September 19, 2023 Read on the Web Does Node.js Need a Mascot? — Go has its cute gopher, Deno has a dinosaur, Bun has, well.. a bun, but what does Node have? Nothing official, as such, and Matteo Collina ponders whether we should change that. Most of the Read more…
#501 — September 12, 2023 Read on the Web MikroORM 5.8 Released — When MikroORM is mentioned anywhere, I always see folks saying it’s great and deserves more attention, so I’m doing my bit to help 😁 It’s an ORM for Node based around Data Mapper, Unit of Work (hello Read more…
Bun, an all-in-one toolkit for building, testing, debugging, and running JavaScript and TypeScript apps, has reached stable production-ready status as of September 8. Positioned as a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is a single executable intended to eliminate complexity and slowness without tossing away everything that is “great” about JavaScript, Read more…
Node.js 20.6.0, the latest version of the asynchronous, event-driven JavaScript runtime, includes built-in 1env. file support for configuring environment variables. The update, cited as the “current” version of Node.js and announced September 4, can be downloaded from the project website. With 1env. , Node.js proponents said the configuration file should follow Read more…
Hapi is a Node.js framework in the vein of Express but with a handful of distinguishing ideas, including a no-dependency, high-quality code stack; powerful configuration options; and fine-tuned extensibility that covers many use cases. JavaScript creator Brendan Eich said of Hapi that it “provides the right set of core APIs and Read more…
#500 — September 5, 2023 Read on the Web Node v20.6.0 (Current) Released — As we teased last week, the latest Node release includes all-new built-in support for setting environment variables via 1.env files, so you may no longer have a need for dotenv, depending on your use case. You Read more…
#499 — August 29, 2023 Read on the Web 👋 We’re back! Well, sort of.. If you didn’t get an issue of Node Weekly in the past few weeks, don’t worry, I was on vacation. I’m technically on vacation for a couple more days but didn’t want too many issues Read more…
#498 — August 8, 2023 Read on the Web ☀️ We’re taking two weeks off and will be back on Tuesday, August 29. Yes, it’s true, we’re taking a rare vacation and will be back in a couple of weeks, so if you don’t see us for a while, it’s Read more…
#497 — August 1, 2023 Read on the Web PythonMonkey: JavaScript/WASM Interop for Python — The alpha release of a new way to bring Python and JavaScript together, by way of embedding Mozilla SpiderMonkey into the Python VM. This post introduces the concept with some examples, an idea of where Read more…
#496 — July 25, 2023 Read on the Web The Node.js Best Practices List: 2023 Edition — A valuable, long standing resource has been “modernized to 2023 standards” (complete with recommendations of more modern libraries) with lots of work by creator Yoni and an ever growing team of contributors. The Read more…
