Using Web Streams in Node.js — Streams provide a handy abstraction for cleanly working with streaming data but Web Streams (a.k.a. WHATWG Streams) are a different, more broadly supported beast to classic Node.js streams. Dr. Axel starts from the basics but goes into a lot of depth here – a handy resource.
Puppeteer 15.0: Control Headless Chrome from Node — Playwright has taken a lot of the browser remote control attention in recent years, but Puppeteer, which focuses on Chrome, is still a great option. It now uses Chromium 103 and supports Node 18.
for coming in last. I’d love to see some stats on just how many of these packages are total nonsense.
Node 18.4.0 is out, but it’s a relatively minor release.
The folks over at Deno have raised $21m in series A funding to push ahead with their V8 isolates based Deno Deploy cloud functions service.
We’ve mentioned it before, but as it’s still new to many folks, here’s a quick, practical look at the built-in command line arguments parser in Node 18.3+.
BRIEF RELEASES:
npm 8.13 Pino 8.1 – Fast JSON-powered logging. Fastify 4.1 – Fast and low overhead web framework. stripe-node 9.9 – Node library for the Stripe API. Faker 7.3 – Generate fake data fast. jsdom 20.0 – WHATWG DOM and HTML standards for Node. zx 7.0.2 – Better shell scripting with Node. Sequelize 6.21 – Promise-based multi SQL dialect ORM. Opossum 6.4 – Circuit breaker for async functions. pg-boss 7.4 – Postgres + Node job queueing system.
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Moon: A New Build System for the JavaScript Ecosystem — Built in Rust for performance, Moon appears to be focused on features for larger projects with lots of dependencies, developers, and processes. It’ll be interesting to see this one develop further.
#558 — December 3, 2024 Read on the Web Skia Canvas 2.0: A Browserless Canvas Environment for Node — Based on Google’s Skia graphics engine and offers end results similar to Chrome’s own canvas system. Read more…
#557 — November 26, 2024 Read on the Web Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did you know Oracle formally owns the ‘JavaScript’ trademark? There have been a few efforts to change this Read more…
#556 — November 19, 2024 Read on the Web AWS Lambda Turns Ten: Looking Back and Looking Ahead — AWS Lambda, Amazon’s cloud function service, essentially launched the term ‘serverless’ and had a big impact Read more…
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