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Why is Spawning a New Process in Node So Slow? — The developers of the Val Town platform noticed that Node couldn’t spawn more than 40 external processes per second, whereas Deno and Bun could do a lot more. Are there ways to significantly improve this? Actually, yes!
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A Practical Guide to Not Blocking the Event Loop — A look at the core principles of synchronous and asynchronous work in a single-threaded environment, stressing the importance of non-blocking code for efficient event loop utilization.
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Using pnpm on Heroku — If you’re using the Heroku platform, their Node.js buildpack now supports the pnpm package manager which offers significant disk space and installation time improvements.
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MikroORM 6.3: Schema First? — If you’ve not had the pleasure of giving MikroORM, a TypeScript ORM for Node, a try, it’s well worth checking out. v6.3 brings even more polish to proceedings and introduces the option to use it in a ‘schema first’ style where entity definitions are created from the database.
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#564 — January 28, 2025 Read on the Web A Failed Attempt to Shrink All npm Packages by 5% — What if you could shrink all npm package sizes by 5%.. wouldn’t that benefit all Read more…
#563 — January 21, 2025 Read on the Web NodeBB v4.0.0 Released: Node.js Powered Forums — Now almost 12 years old, NodeBB continues to offer a classic forum experience in a modern Node.js-shaped guise. The Read more…
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