Category: node js

Comparing Node.js job schedulers

January 12, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Node v18.13.0 (LTS) Released — Node’s LTS release gains File, part of the File API web specification, support for function mocking in the built-in node:test test runner module, support for externally shared dependencies based around JavaScript code (or WASM) as preferred by certain distributions, the…

Looking at both 2022 and 2023

January 6, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

We’re back for 2023 😀 As is our tradition, we’re taking a quick look back at the past year – this time led by a few choice retrospectives, then followed by the most popular articles and tools included in JavaScript Weekly in 2022. There’s sure…

Music to our ears

January 5, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Gluon: Framework for Creating Desktop Apps from Sites — A new approach for building desktop apps from Web sites using Node and already installed browsers. Notably, Gluon supports both Chromium and Firefox. Deno can also be used in place of Node. Windows and Linux are…

A new jQuery release for Xmas

December 16, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

🎄 This is the final issue of the year – we’ll be back on January 6, 2023. We hope you have a fantastic holiday season, whether or not you are celebrating, and we’ll see you for a look back at 2022 in the first week…

The best of Node Weekly in 2022

December 15, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

The Best of Node Weekly in 2022 This is the final issue of the year (we’re back on January 5, 2023) so today we’re revisiting the most popular links (and releases) of 2022. There’ll be a few useful resources that escaped your attention or that you’ve…

Vite 4.0 released

December 9, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Vite 4.0 Released — From the same creator as Vue.js, Vite is an exciting piece of frontend tooling offering lots of goodies out of the box: fast hot module replacement, instant server starts, optimized builds with Rollup, TypeScript and JSX support (more on why to…

The official npm site gets a code explorer

December 8, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

💡 I think the code explorer will be pretty handy, if only to take a quick look inside weirdly named junk packages to see what’s going on! 😆 Is Prisma Better Than Your ‘Traditional’ ORM? — Prisma has become a very popular Node project in…

Splitting up sentences with Intl.Segmenter

December 2, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Speeding Up the JS Ecosystem, One Library at a Time — JavaScript projects are often so reliant upon dependencies that there are many opportunities to speed up swathes of the ecosystem by fixing small performance issues. Here, one of Preact’s developers shares how he’s been…

Lots of Electron news

December 1, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

The Advent of Code 2022: 25 Days of Code Challenges — If you have a little time each day to do some programming puzzles, the Advent of Code is always fantastic and now in its eighth year. There’s a sub-Reddit where people share and discuss…

JavaScript Vocoder Puccini

November 25, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The State of JavaScript 2022 Survey is Open — JavaScript’s most popular annual survey is open once again. The results (2021’s, for example) are always fascinating to see, so go share your knowledge so we can see where JavaScript is headed. There’s a ‘guest’ mode…