Account — Over the past six months, GitHub has been keen to tighten up security around the publishing of
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packages with two-factor authentication at the heart of the effort. Now an array of improved 2FA features are in public beta for you to try out, but all maintainers of the top 500 npm packages will be enrolled in a mandatory fashion on May 31.
Ryan Dahl on JavaScript Containers — Ryan, originally known for Node and now Deno, thinks about JavaScript as being a universal scripting language and how the JS sandbox acts as a sort of high level version of the traditional Linux container and will only become more important in the next few years.
A common reason for new Node releases is the discovery of vulnerabilities in key dependencies like OpenSSL or (rarely) V8. OpenSSL has a new low severity one explained in this post by Rafael Gonzaga but it’s not significant enough to trigger new Node releases at this time.
GraphQL Yoga 2.0: A Light But Fully-Featured GraphQL Server — Bills itself as the ‘easiest way to run a GraphQL server’. Yoga follows the GraphQL over HTTP spec, supports file uploaded, subscriptions over HTTP Server Sent Events, and more – plus it’ll work on Node, Deno, or even serverlessly. GitHub repo.
Kafka.js 2.0: A Modern Apache Kafka Client — Production ready and supports Kafka 0.10+. (Kafka is a popular open source system for working with stream-processing at scale.) As the first major release in 4 years, there’s a migration guide for existing users.
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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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