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Node v22.8.0 (Current) Released — This landed just before we hit ‘send’! 🙂 The enhancements are minor, but there are a few, including a new API for enabling on-disk code caching of modules (rather than using the NODE_COMPILE_CACHE env var) and a way to set…
How to Create an NPM Package in 2024 — Sounds simple, but there are a lot of steps involved if you want to follow best practices, introduce useful tools, and get things just right. Matt Pocock walks through the process here, and there’s a 14-minute…
🏖️ If you missed last week’s issue, don’t worry – you didn’t. I took a week off a summer break, but now we’re back 😉 Thanks to everyone who sent in links for us to check out.__Peter Cooper, your editor Node v22.6.0 (Current) Released — v22.6…
🏖️ Hi! We’re taking next week off for a brief summer break. We’ll be back with our next issue on August 20. We’ve also noticed in testing that Gmail isn’t entirely sure about this issue, so if you could mark it as safe, show images,…
Node.js Adds Experimental Support for TypeScript — In this pull request, Node merged an experimental ability to transpile TypeScript into JavaScript, ultimately letting Node directly ‘run TypeScript’. However, no type checking is performed and, as Matt Pocock explains, experimental and TypeScript-only features are a no-no.…