#445 — July 7, 2022 Read on the Web Executing Shell Commands from Node.js — Dr. Axel’s journey through the backrooms of Node.js continues with another in-depth guide – this time tackling running other programs from our Node apps. The Read more…
#444 — June 30, 2022 Read on the Web Working with the File System from Node.js — Dr. Axel seems to be on a bit of a Node kick lately and comes back this week with a particularly deep dive Read more…
Deno is championed as a more-secure alternative to the popular Node.js JavaScript runtime. The 1.0 version of the Deno runtime, which leverages the V8 JavaScript engine and was built using Rust, arrived in May 2020. Node.js founder Ryan Dahl even Read more…
Summary The Node.js project will release new versions of the 14.x, 16.x, and 18.x releases lines on or shortly after Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 in order to address: Three medium severity issues. Two high severity issues. Impact The 18.x release Read more…
#443 — June 23, 2022 Read on the Web 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 Read more…
Summary The vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL Security releases of Jun 21 2022 do not affect any active Node.js release lines. Analysis Our assessment of the security advisory is: The 1c_rehash script allows command injection (CVE-2022-2068) Node.js doesn’t use or ship Read more…
Notable Changes crypto: remove Node.js-specific webcrypto extensions (Filip Skokan) #43310 add CFRG curves to Web Crypto API (Filip Skokan) #42507 dns: accept 1’IPv4′ and 1’IPv6′ for 1family (Antoine du Hamel) #43054 report: add more heap infos in process report (theanarkh) Read more…
#442 — June 16, 2022 Read on the Web zx v7.0: Better Script Writing with Node.js — No, not movie scripts, but shell scripts and the like. If writing JavaScript instead of wrestling with bash, Perl or Python sounds better Read more…
#441 — June 9, 2022 Read on the Web Fastify 4.0 Released — The first major release of a popular, high performance Node.js Web framework in two years warrants some celebration. A focus has been placed on stabilization, modernization, and Read more…
Deno Deploy, a serverless service for running JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly applications at the edge, has moved closer to general availability with the release of Beta 4, which includes a paid service plan. General availability of Deno Deploy is eyed Read more…
