Node.js 18 released

🇺🇦 #​434 — April 21, 2022

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Node.js 18 (Current) Released — Almost exactly one year after Node 16 and two after Node 14 comes the newest version of Node. It’s a ‘current’ branch release for now, but will become an LTS (Long-Term Support) release in October, and you can expect it to be supported till 2025. What’s new?

• As the new ‘current’ release, Node 18 will get all the fancy new features first, until October 2022.
• The Fetch API, backed by Undici is now available globally by default. Say hello to (and be aware of)

  1

  fetch

  ,

  1

  Request

  ,

  1

  Response

  and other new globals.

• The Web Streams API is now exposed on the global scope, as are

  1

  Blob

  and

  1	BroadcastChannel

  .

• The

  1

  node:test

  test runner module.

• If you like laundry lists, the official release post by Beth Griggs is well worth working through too.

The Node.js Team

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The Most Popular Node.js Frameworks in 2022 — OK, it’s a listicle, and the data comes from surveys, GitHub stars, and gut feelings, but it’s a reasonably well put together summarized list of frameworks (back-end, full stack, CMSes, and more) as of right now.

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Four Reasons to Avoid using

—

can be used to symlink a local package as a dependency during development, but the author has created the

package (which you can use via

) as a safer and ‘more predictable’ alternative. All is explained within.

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Quick bytes:

• The OpenJS Foundation has a more business-focused post about the Node.js 18 release, if you like/need such things.

• The latest episode of JS Party has ▶️ an interview with Postgres.js creator, Rasmus Porsager.

▶  Writing a Node App with ClojureScript and

— If you think of Node as a runtime rather than something that must absolutely be JavaScript-based, the title makes sense. The guys in the video use nbb, a Node-based scripting environment for ClojureScript. As an aside, it’s quite cool to see two developers working together within the same screencast.

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How to Go from 1x Deploy a Week → 1x a Day → Many Times a Day.

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How to Debug Node.js Code Using Multiple Tools — A handy, if reasonably high level, tour of some debugging approaches.

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chalk-animation: Colorful Animations in Terminal Output — Provides a variety of different effects for your text, including a rainbow effect, pulsing, and glitchiness.

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WebDAV 4.9: A WebDAV Client Written in TypeScript — WebDAV is a long standing (if slightly legacy nowadays) extension to HTTP for writing, moving, and otherwise changing files on a server.

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Gladys Assistant: A Privacy-First, Open-Source Home Assistant — It runs on any Linux machine (including a Raspberry Pi) and uses Node under the hood.

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node-sqlite3 5.0.4: Async SQLite3 Bindings for Node — A point release, but prebuilt musl and arm64 binaries for Linux have been added.

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zx 6.1: A Tool for Writing Better Shell Scripts

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Google Auth Library for Node.js v8.0

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Mineflayer 4.3: A High Level API for Creating Minecraft Bots

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Gaxios 5.0: An Axios-Style Interface, But Over

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