Home » node js » Page 4

Category: node js

Node v23, and a proper hello to Express v5

October 22, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node v23.0.0 (Current) Released — Say hello to the newest release line of Node.js that gets all the cutting edge features first (Node 22 will soon become the active LTS release). v23 notably enables support for loading ES modules with require() by default, drops 32-bit…

JS0 + JSSugar not so sweet?

October 17, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

The Story of Web Framework Hono, By Its Creator — Hono is a neat, lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that has been picking up steam in the past year. You can create a simple app reminiscent of Express.js, say, but run…

Jod only knows what Node v22 LTS will be called

October 15, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

😅 If you didn’t get Node Weekly last week, don’t panic – no one did! We were taking a scheduled week off, but unfortunately forgot to notify you in the previous issue. We’re now back every Tuesday till December 17 and the Xmas break 🙂__Peter Cooper,…

A huge week for ECMAScript proposals

October 10, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🦖 Announcing Deno 2 — A huge release for the “what if I reinvented Node again from scratch?” runtime. Backwards compatibility with Node is a headline feature, but there’s a lot more baked in. Best, though, is the ▶️ epic ‘Announcing Deno 2’ video. After a slightly…

Evan You’s next big adventure

October 3, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

VoidZero: A Next-Generation Toolchain for JavaScript — Not content to have merely created Vue.js and Vite, JavaScript powerhouse Evan You has unveiled his latest adventure: a $4.6m funded company building an open-source unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. With his track record, this is…

All aboard the (high speed) Express train

October 1, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Jiti 2.0: Runtime TypeScript and ESM Support for Node.js — Long before Node got round to natively adding ES modules support or type stripping, Jiti brought the ability to quickly run TypeScript with native ESM support to Node, and it’s still going. v2.0 adds JSX/TSX…

Deno gets even better

September 26, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Deno 2.0 Release Candidate — Deno started life as a manifestation of ideas that Node’s original creator, Ryan Dahl, had after his experiences with Node. Deno 2 is the next step: how the Deno team thinks Deno should ultimately be. Many changes await: window is…

Principles for doing Node right at scale

September 24, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node v22.9.0 (Current) Released — The latest cutting edge Node has a new API for retrieving the stack trace of the current execution. It also disables V8’s Maglev optimizing JIT due to upstream reliability problems and the necessity for Node v22 to stick with V8…

Hey, how many C’s are there in JavaScript?

September 19, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

‘Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript.’ — It’s long been a bone of contention that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a call two years ago) but this marks the first serious effort to try and change that, including petitioning the USPTO,…

Tough cookies

September 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

💡 But if you prefer the ‘full fat’ experience of Execa, v9.4.0 was released yesterday. ▶  From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began — A brief nine minute documentary exploring the origins of Deno with Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder. A good, quick way to get…