N-API becomes Node-API

#​389 — May 20, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Adonis v5 Now Out of Preview plus a New Site and Docs — Adonis is a full featured Node web framework which compares itself to Rails, Laravel and Django in terms of scope. v5 brings easier social authentication support and Read more…

Node v16.2.0 (Current)

Notable Changes [ 136b948560c ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) async_hooks: use new v8::Context PromiseHook API (Stephen Belanger) #36394 [ 1c0deeeacb2 ] – lib: support setting process.env.TZ on windows (James M Snell) #38642 [ 14c4902748c ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) module: add support for 1URL to 1import.meta.resolve (Antoine du Hamel) #38587 [ 1c182198c44 ] – Read more…

Node v14.17.0 (LTS)

Notable Changes Diagnostics channel (experimental module) 1diagnostics_channel is a new experimental module that provides an API to create named channels to report arbitrary message data for diagnostics purposes. The module was initially introduced in Node.js v15.1.0 and is backported to v14.17.0 to enable testing it at a larger scale. With Read more…

RIP Node.js 10

#​387 — May 6, 2021 Read on the Web 🖋 Just a note to say we’re experimenting a little bit with the format of the newsletter over the coming weeks, so if you have any feedback, hit reply and let us know. We’re also always keen for submissions so let Read more…

Node v16.1.0 (Current)

Notable Changes [ 18a90f55a05 ] – (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: allow no-params fsPromises fileHandle read (Nitzan Uziely) #38287 Commits [ 128e16488cf ] – async_hooks,doc: replace process.stdout.fd with 1 (Darshan Sen) #38382 [ 1cbab7ec6e5 ] – benchmark: avoid using 1console.log() (Antoine du Hamel) #38370 [ 1ba15b20062 ] – benchmark: use 1process.hrtime.bigint() (Antoine du Read more…

What’s next for Node.js?

#​386 — April 29, 2021 Read on the Web 🖋 Just in case you missed last week’s issue, it was a big one as Node 16 was released so it’s worth a catch up 🙂 This week is somewhat quieter but a few neat things have been coming in..__Peter Cooper, your Read more…

Prisma ORM for Node.js is ready for production

Prisma, an open source object-relational mapping (ORM) toolset for Node.js and TypeScript, is now available as a production release. Intended to address the bottleneck of working with relational databases, Prisma supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and SQL Server (in preview), with a connector for MongoDB in the works. Unveiling the platform Read more…

Node 16 released

#​385 — April 22, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node.js 16 Available Now — It’s always nice to see Node step another version number ahead (unless, perhaps, you find the upgrading process a bit nervewracking!) and 16 immediately replaces 15.x as the ‘current’ release line with 16 due Read more…