Adonis v6

#​519 — January 30, 2024 Read on the Web AdonisJS v6: The Complete Web Framework — If you want a TypeScript-first backend Web framework with amazing docs and packed with features out the box, Adonis is worth a look. v6 takes a huge step forward by using ESM by default, Read more…

Neural network chess

#​518 — January 23, 2024 Read on the Web Microsoft TypeSpec: A TypeScript-Inspired Way to Define APIs — A language for concisely describing cloud service APIs and generating other API description languages (e.g. OpenAPI), client and service code, docs, and more. Formerly known as CADL. – GitHub repo. Microsoft Cryptography Fundamentals with Read more…

npm by the numbers

#​517 — January 16, 2024 Read on the Web npm in Review: A Retrospective in Numbers — From Socket comes a look at the past year from the perspective of the npm registry, focused largely on statistics (2.5 million live packages!), including download numbers, popular packages, as well as some Read more…

The latest npm registry shenanigans

#​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…