A TypeScript release targeted at Node developers

February 4, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js Weekly

Introducing Mentoss: The fetch Mocker — A new approach to mocking global fetch() calls (in both browsers and server-side runtimes) inspired by previous attempts like Nock and MSW.

Nicholas C. Zakas

The Modern Way to Write JavaScript Servers? — The irony is that while Node popularized JavaScript on the server (if we ignore Netscape’s attempts in the 90s) this modern, standardized cross-runtime approach doesn’t quite work on bare Node (yet – though you can polyfill it.)

Marvin Hagemeister

🛠 Code & Tools

Feluda: A Tool to Analyze the Licences of Dependencies — It’s a Rust-powered project but one which can be used to process the dependencies of Node, Go, or Rust projects and return a report (or show a TUI interface) on potentially restrictive licenses that apply.

Kumar Anirudha

📢  Elsewhere in JavaScript

A quick roundup of some of other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them: