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 on all things related to working with text files from Node, from simple reading and writing operations to streams, buffers, and directory manipulation.
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Should Node.js Directly Support Web Workers? — Web Workers provide a way for JavaScript in the browser to run on background threads, taking the heat off the main thread. Browsers support them, Deno supports them, and while Node has Worker Threads, Sindre argues Node should align with the broader standard.
Highlights from OpenJS World 2022 — OpenJS World took place a few weeks ago in Austin, Texas and in this post Marian covers some of the talking points, top talks, and what made the event special. There’s a YouTube playlist of over 50 talks from the event, with some highlights here (note the audio is very quiet on some of them):
Node.js has some security releases on the horizon (around July 5) for the 14.x, 16.x, and 18.x release lines to tackle three medium severity issues and two high severity ones. We’ll bring you up to speed in next week’s issue.
Node developers on Reddit tackled the question of whether MongoDB is as popular in industry as it is in tutorials and the responses were.. interesting 😏
From the folks behind the State of JavaScript and State of CSS surveys comes State of GraphQL.
is used to communicate over the ‘meter bus’ protocol used by various utility (gas, electricity, etc.) meters. I have no idea how it works, but a homemade Node-powered smart meter would be pretty cool.
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#541 — July 23, 2024 Read on the Web Node.js v22.5.0 (Current) Released – But Don’t Install It! — A notable release for three reasons: first, the WebSocket feature in 1node:http is now exposed. Second, remember how Read more…
#540 — July 16, 2024 Read on the Web A Guide to Reading and Writing Node.js Streams — A post from the creator of Fastify (and a Node.js TSC member) is always a treat. Matteo Read more…
#539 — July 9, 2024 Read on the Web Node to Get SQLite Built-In? — Deno has its own built in key/value store powered by SQLite – perhaps Node could gain similar powers by this Read more…
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