Category: node js

A 2024 JavaScript retrospective

December 19, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🎄 We’ve made it to the end of 2024! In this issue, we’re being reflective, leading with a few news items but then looking at what made 2024 special in the world of JavaScript, and covering some of the biggest things we linked to this…

A look back at Node’s 2024

December 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

🎄 This week we cover a few news items but quickly get into a 2024 roundup of Node news and the most clicked items of the year. Then we’re taking a Christmas break for two weeks and will be back on January 7, 2025. We…

Benchmarking Node’s recent performance enhancements

December 12, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Boa v0.20: An Alternative JavaScript Compiler — Under development for several years, Boa has a few missions: be a Rust ECMAScript implementation, be easy to embed in Rust projects, and be a fast, safe JS engine overall. v0.20 sees a bump up to 89.92% compliance…

require(esm) makes it to LTS

December 10, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

🎄 The Node world is experiencing a post-Thanksgiving interfestal lull, so this issue includes a few items we overlooked earlier this year. Next week brings our usual annual roundup, though, so keep your eyes peeled for that before the festive break 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor Memetria…

Oracle engages its lawyers and JavaScript turns 29

December 5, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🗓️ If you missed last week’s issue, don’t worry, it didn’t exist – we took a week off for Thanksgiving! We’re now back all the way through to the Christmas break 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did you…

A full-fledged canvas for Node.js apps

December 3, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

❤️ Postgres — You need a database provider that loves Postgres as much as you do. We’ll take care of all the hassle – monitoring, backups, HA, disaster recovery so you don’t have to. Want amazing support? We’ll be there when you have questions. Crunchy Bridge…

Taking the JavaScript trademark fight to the USPTO

November 26, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did you know Oracle formally owns the ‘JavaScript’ trademark? There have been a few efforts to change this over the years (most recently via this open letter) but Oracle isn’t listening. The Deno team has now formally…

Exploring JavaScript symbols

November 21, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🦃 We’re taking next week off for Thanksgiving. We don’t celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a break. We’ll be back on Thursday December 5.__Your editor, Peter Cooper Angular v19 Released — The…

Using Node to get ChatGPT on the phone

November 19, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

AWS Lambda Turns Ten: Looking Back and Looking Ahead — AWS Lambda, Amazon’s cloud function service, essentially launched the term ‘serverless’ and had a big impact on the use of Node.js in the cloud with Node v0.10 being the first and only runtime supported (till…

Will we care about frameworks in an AI world?

November 14, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Component Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries — A long-standing comparison of many different frameworks (like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Qwik, Solid.js, etc.) by way of simple code snippets to perform various tasks. Now including Svelte 5 and Angular 17/Renaissance. Mathieu Schimmerling Will We Care About…