#516 — January 9, 2024 Read on the Web When ‘Everything’ Becomes Too Much: Fresh npm Package Chaos — While many of us were taking a break, some folks published an ‘ 1everything ‘ package that depended upon all public npm packages, resulting in millions of transitive dependencies. This caused.. some Read more…
#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…
