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 to help guide you as to which versions and which architectures need the most support. Notably, Node 18 has only just begun to pass Node 16 in popularity..
Node v20.10.0 (LTS) Released — Node 20 only recently became an LTS release (codenamed ‘Iron’) but has already landed a significant update that backports a variety of useful features, including a --experimental-default-type option to flip the default module system, --experimental-detect-module for automatically running ES modules (when detected), an experimental WebSocket client, and a flush option for certain file system functions. This is pretty neat as you get to use several new features but without going all in with the less stable Node 21 release line.
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aws-lite: A New Node-Powered AWS Client — Amazon Web Services does a pretty good job with its APIs and associated tooling, but sometimes they can be a little bit heavyweight. aws-lite provides a simpler and faster option. “You can think of it as a community-driven alternative to AWS’s JavaScript SDK.”
sqs-consumer 8.0 – The BBC’s solution to building AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) apps sans boilerplate – instead, you define an async function that handles the message processing.
jsdom 23.0 – JS implementation of various web standards for use with Node.
