Five Node Version Managers Compared — In an ideal world, the latest version of Node would slot well into every project, but in reality we often need to switch versions, and a variety of tools are available to make it simple. NVM is perhaps the best known, but maybe N, FNM, Volta, or even pnpm could suit you better?
Pavel Romanov
Node v22.1.0 (Current) Released — Fewer than two weeks on from Node 22.0 comes Node 22.1 with an optional on-disk code caching feature that can speed up compilation by leaning on V8’s caching. A cool potential performance improvement, but one you’ll want to experiment with to see its effects. More details here.
▶ Exploring What’s New in Node 22 — With Matteo Collina of the Node TSC, no less! It’s a movie-length effort, but he walks through everything significant about Node 22 (and 22.1) including improvements introduced by V8, the
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Poor Express Authentication Patterns and How to Avoid Them — Node security guru Liran has been bothered by a lot of poor authentication patterns doing the rounds in various tutorials and lays out some things to consider if you’re ‘rolling your own.’
DerbyJS 4.0: The Mature MVC Web Framework — It’s never been the most popular of the frameworks, but Derby has lived through most of Node’s history and remains a viable option for building realtime, collaborative apps in particular. GitHub repo.
Nate Smith et al.
Pechkin: Asynchronous Node File Upload Handling — Based around Busboy and retaining access to its lower level functions, Pechkin boasts flexibility, strong error handling, and the use of full async/await/iterator syntax when processing files.
#541 — July 23, 2024 Read on the Web Node.js v22.5.0 (Current) Released – But Don’t Install It! — A notable release for three reasons: first, the WebSocket feature in 1node:http is now exposed. Second, remember how Read more…
#540 — July 16, 2024 Read on the Web A Guide to Reading and Writing Node.js Streams — A post from the creator of Fastify (and a Node.js TSC member) is always a treat. Matteo Read more…
#539 — July 9, 2024 Read on the Web Node to Get SQLite Built-In? — Deno has its own built in key/value store powered by SQLite – perhaps Node could gain similar powers by this Read more…
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