Node v16 goes LTS
October 28, 2021 
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Supercharging Node with Rust — As fast as the V8 team have made JavaScript, it’s still a dynamic language at the end of the day, and there are faster options such as Rust, C or C++ if you need absolute max performance or to integrate with certain other systems. Can you integrate Node code with things written in Rust? Yes, and this is a very basic introduction to the concepts involved. In a related Hacker News discussion, the maintainer of the Neon tools used in this article said a 1.0 release is coming very soon. Dmitry Kudryavtsev |
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Node v16.13.0 (LTS) Released — While Node 17 came out last week and effectively bumped Node 16 into being a long term ‘LTS’ release, the transition only officially happens with this new v16 release. Node 16 (now codenamed ‘Gallium’) is now an active LTS release until October 2022. Richard Lau and the Node.js Team |
Complete Node.js Learning Path 🚢 — Learn Node.js from foundations up to building APIs and web applications! Get hands-on creating and deploying REST and GraphQL APIs and power your web apps in this complete learning path on Node.js. Frontend Masters |
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Next.js 12 Released — The popular Node.js + React development framework takes its biggest step forward yet with an array of improvements including beta support for middleware, React 18 support, native ES module support, a Rust-powered compiler for 5x faster builds, and more. The Vercel Team |
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▶ How to Do TypeScript without TypeScript — Static types confer numerous benefits when developing, but is it necessary to use TypeScript fully in order to get many of the benefits? Simone investigates the pros and cons and shows off an alternative approach. Simone Sanfratello |
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Desktop Automation with RobotJS — Kayode has discovered RobotJS, a ‘desktop automation library’ for Node that lets you control the pointer, keyboard, and read things off the screen on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but Kayode has had some success in getting it to make his computer appear as if it’s in active use. Kayode Oluwasegun |
🛠 Code & Tools
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memoize-one 6.0: A Memoization Library with a Simple Approach — A memoization library that takes the curious approach of only remembering the last invocation and arguments, returning the cached value if the next call matches. This saves on complex caching arrangements while speeding up many scenarios. Alex Reardon |
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