Express 5.x enters the limelight
April 1, 2025 |
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π¬ I was amused by some discussion about the release on Reddit, where maintainer Wes Todd said: “We tried to kill [Express] over and over and it keeps on getting up and converting more people into zombies for the zombie mob. So we did the best we could to research a way to bring it back from zombie status.” |
ThePrimeagen’s Dev Setup Is Better Than Yours β See why simpler dev tooling is better by hand-crafting an environment with bash scripts. You’ll learn common Unix tools for managing libraries, interacting with the OS, window management, and more in this course. Frontend Masters |
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Land Ahoy: Leaving the Sea of Nodes β A deeply technical post from a core member of the V8 JavaScript engine team that explains the limitations of Turbofan, one of V8βs optimizing compilers. If you donβt care for the internals of how your JavaScript is compiled and run, just be assured the V8 team is working to make it run even faster! Darius Mercadier (V8) |
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IN BRIEF:
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π Malware Found on npm Infecting Local Package with Reverse Shell β βFor the first time, RL researchers discover malicious locally-installed npm packages infecting other legitimate packages.β Lucija ValentiΔ (ReversingLabs) π 5 GitHub Actions Every Maintainer Needs to Know Finley and Davis (GitHub) π How to Set Up TypeScript with Node.js and Express Aman Mittal |
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NΕdo: A Way to Call Node.js from Ruby β A mechanism for letting Ruby scripts make calls to Node.js-based functions via a Unix socket-based IPC approach. (We also learn that βγγΌγβ means βnodeβ in Japanese.) Matthias Grosser |
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Playwright MCP: Connect LLMs to Browsers with Playwright β MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers enable certain LLM-based agents (such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and Cursor) to perform actions on systems outside of their usual sandbox. This new project from Microsoft enables such LLMs to interact with Web pages via Playwright. Microsoft |
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π’ Elsewhere in JavaScript |
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A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them:
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