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New URLPattern API Brings Improved Pattern Matching to Node — The Cloudflare Workers team has implemented the URLPattern API in the Ada URL parser, used by both Node.js and Cloudflare Workers. The API lets you take patterns like /blog/:year/:month/:slug and test whether URLs match against…
Node v23.10.0 (Current) Released — Node gains a new –experimental-config-file option for writing a JSON-based config file that contains options that would otherwise litter your command line flags – ideal for configuring the test runner, say. Antoine du Hamel Node v20.19.0 (LTS) Released with require(esm)…
🔎 Node Modules Inspector — A tool that runs pnpm inside your browser, “installs” a package, then analyzes its dependencies. This can be useful for analyzing packages you already use, but also for simplifying your own projects, as 11ty’s Zach Leatherman did here. Anthony Fu Node Added…
Turbocharging V8 with Mutable Heap Numbers — The V8 team uses the JetStream2 benchmark suite to investigate performance issues and has implemented a new optimization yielding not just a 2.5x improvement in the async-fs benchmark but in other areas too. A demonstration that not only does…
👋 Just in case you missed the message, we took last week off but we’re back now until Easter, so you didn’t miss anything. 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor. Subverting Control with Weak References — Node supports WeakMap and WeakRef for working with weak references and James…