The Thing About Fastify — Express isn’t the only game in town but sometimes it feels like it, so Jonas has written a love letter, of sorts, to Fastify, an alternative Node.js Web framework that ticks his boxes and which you, too, should consider, if you haven’t already.
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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer makes the point (picked up from Guy Bedford) that now Node.js 12 is at its ‘end of life’, we wave goodbye to the final version of Node that didn’t have ES module support from the start.
On the topic of ES modules in Node, however, James M Snell also notes that it has thrown ‘a giant monkey wrench into the ecosystem’ and there are“going to be large chunks of npm that you just can’t use because it’s just not going to be a good experience.”
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JSPyBridge 1.0: A Bridge Between Node and Python — A work in progress but offers the ability to go either way – run Python from Node, or run Node from Python ‘with a native feel.’ “Unlike other bridges, you may notice you’re not just writing Python code in JavaScript, or vice-versa. You can operate on objects on the other side of the bridge as if the objects existed on your side.”
Deno Land, the developers of the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, have introduced Deno Cron, a feature the company describes as an easy way to create scheduled jobs. Announced November 29 and available behind the 1--unstable flag Read more…
#512 — November 28, 2023 Read on the Web Node.js Download Statistics — Node.js TSC member Matteo has put together a handy site that visualizes the publicly available Node.js download statistics, partly as a way Read more…
#511 — November 21, 2023 Read on the Web ‘A Node + TypeScript + ts-node + ESM Experience That Works’ — It’s just three files: 1package.json , 1tsconfig.json and a utilities file, and you’re good Read more…
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