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#​491 — June 20, 2023 Read on the Web ▶  Recreating a JS Runtime to Understand Node’s Magic — Popular speaker, educator, Microsoft MVP and Node.js core team member Erick gives a very enthusiastic talk on the latest ‘hello world’ in the JavaScript world: building a runtime 😏 Somehow, Erick manages Read more…

#​490 — June 13, 2023 Read on the Web An Introduction to Debugging Tools and Approaches for Node — An informative primer on debugging, from simple things like using IDE extensions to highlight potential problems or, yes, console logging, through to using the V8 inspector and debugging via Chrome. Craig Buckler Read more…

#​489 — June 6, 2023 Read on the Web qnm: A CLI Tool to Look Into 1node_modules — If you’ve been into a 1node_modules folder and been overwhelmed, this tool (supporting both npm and Yarn) lets you dig around with extra guidance as to what is what. You can use Read more…

#​488 — May 30, 2023 Read on the Web ▶  ‘I Tried 8 Different Postgres ORMs’ — A modern, fast-paced, and slightly irreverent meme-heavy look at the various ways in which you can interact with Postgres (provided serverless by Neon, in this case) from a backend JavaScript app. It’s pretty neat Read more…

Deno 1.34, the latest release of the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime positioned as an alternative to Node.js, improves compatibility with NPM and Node.js and enhances the developer experience, according to proponents. With Deno 1.34, unveiled on May 25, 1deno compile supports NPM packages. Since Deno 1.6, introduced in December 2020, Read more…

#​487 — May 23, 2023 Read on the Web The State of Node.js Performance in 2023 — Nearform’s Rafael Gonzaga reflects on the recent release of Node 20 and puts it through its paces against v18.16 and v16.20 with a few different benchmark suites running on a pretty typical EC2 Read more…