Category: node js

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…

Node v23.2 released

November 12, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

💡 Erick Wendel ▶️ recorded this helpful 18-minute video showing off Node’s new TypeScript-specific functionality and even caught up with Node.js TSC member Marco Ippolito who’s leading the type-stripping initiative. Introducing the vlt Package Manager — Made up of an incredibly experienced team, including npm’s creator Isaac…

JSConf is back

November 7, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

💡 He also took a similar look at the pipeline operator |>, but this feature is still only in draft as a proposal. 🇺🇸 JSConf is Back; Here’s the Details — Two months ago, the OpenJS Foundation announced that the popular JSConf brand was joining the foundation…

Running WebAssembly apps inside Node.js

November 5, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Why Code Security Matters – Even in Hardened Environments — A nicely diagrammed deep dive (and it really is deep) into a technique that allows malicious parties to turn a file write vulnerability in a Node app into a remote code execution exploit even when…

Diving Deeper into Projen: Exploring Advanced Features

November 3, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

We will be highlighting Projen’s powerful features that cater to various aspects of project management and development. We’ll examine how Projen enhances polyglot programming within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Development Kit constructs. We’ll also touch on its built-in support for common development tools and…

Cutting JavaScript into two: trick or treat?

October 31, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Python Jumps to #1 on GitHub Over JavaScript, But… — GitHub Universe took place this week, flooding us with data about how folks are using the platform. Of interest to those on social media was that Python has taken JavaScript’s #1 language crown, though many…

Node 22 is now in LTS

October 29, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node v22.11.0 ‘Jod’ Released; Becomes Active LTS Release — With this release, Node 22 flips from being the ‘Current’ cutting edge release to being a dependable release with the all-important LTS (Long Term Support) designation. It is, however, broadly the same as Node v22.10. Richard Lau…

A huge week for both Svelte and Next.js

October 24, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Svelte 5 is Alive — The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the project’s history”, while remaining largely backwards compatible. A big addition is runes for explicitly declaring reactive state, but there’s much…