Notable Changes [ 106916490af ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) async_hooks: expose async_wrap providers (Rafael Gonzaga) #40760 [ 1371ee64c92 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: update V8 to 9.6.180.14 (Michaël Zasso) #40488 [ 1675c210b04 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add reason to AbortSignal (James M Snell) #40807 [ 10de2850680 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add x509.fingerprint512 to Read more…
Notable changes This release contains a c-ares update to fix a regression introduced in Node.js 14.17.5 resolving CNAME records containing underscores #39780. Also included are commits to allow Node.js 14 to continue to build and pass tests on our Jenkins CI, including adding Python 3.10 to the list of allowable Read more…
#415 — November 25, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Getting Started with Validation in Node — You’ve got a webapp and you want to validate the data it’s sent, but there are lots of options. Here Simon breaks down one approach using JSON schemas along with Ajv. Simon Read more…
In light of two recent security incidents impacting the popular NPM registry for JavaScript packages, GitHub will require 2FA (two-factor authentication) for maintainers and admins of popular packages on NPM. The 2FA policy, intended to protect against account takeovers, will be put in place starting with a cohort of top Read more…
TypeScript 4.5, the latest upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed language based on JavaScript, is now generally available. The release features a new utility type, the 1Awaited type, for modeling operations such as 1await in 1async functions or the 1.then() method on 1Promise objects. However, another capability originally planned for TypeScript Read more…
#414 — November 18, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly GitHub on npm Ecosystem Security (and a Major Bug They’ve Fixed) — GitHub became the custodians of the main npm registry in 2020 when it acquired npm Inc. and in this post they share details on how they’re improving its Read more…
Deno 1.16, the latest version of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, features support for a new JSX transform and WebAssembly reference types. The newly supported JSX transform, which is featured in the React 17 JavaScript UI library, both improves the JSX transform API and allows automatic importing of the JSX runtime library. Read more…
#413 — November 11, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node-RED in Industrial IoT: A Growing Standard — Node-RED is a very long standing Node.js-based ‘low code’ environment where you wire components together. As explained here, it’s heavily used in IoT scenarios and is even taking on established commercial systems. Read more…
Notable Changes [ 189b34ecffb ] – doc: add VoltrexMaster to collaborators (voltrexmaster) #40566 [ 195e4d29eb4 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) esm: add support for JSON import assertion (Antoine du Hamel) #40250 [ 11ddbae2d76 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: add unsubscribe method to non-active DC channels (simon-id) #40433 [ 1aa61551b49 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: Read more…
#412 — November 4, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly A Comprehensive Guide to Error Handling in Node — Node offers up more than enough ways for errors to crop up and exceptions to be thrown – this blog post skims through some of the main areas to consider. Ayooluwa Read more…
