Tag: node js

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…

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…

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…

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…

An npm package naming pitfall

November 24, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

💡 While we like to support new, promising projects, it’s not as if it hasn’t been done before though. AdonisJS and Sails are good options in this space. Node.js Architecture Pitfalls to Avoid — Beware: opinions ahead. It’s a little scattershot but the author, who…

Now npm fans can walk the Deno-saur

November 17, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Deno 1.28 Released (Now with 1.3 Million New Modules..?) — Yes, we know Deno isn’t Node (it is an anagram of it, though 😏) but given its shared provenance and now that Deno now officially supports using npm modules in a ‘stable’ way, this is…

It’s all about security

November 10, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js Security Best Practices — A new official document from the Node.js team providing guidelines on securing your Node apps by looking at what the main threats are and how to mitigate them. Node.js Project And.. Node Security Releases: 19.0.1, 18.12.1, 16.18.1 and 14.21.1 — Three security…

Getting Rusty with Node, but in a good way

November 3, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  Node Security Releases Expected.. Today? — Releases of Node 14.x, 16.x, 18.x and 19.x are expected imminently to address three security vulnerabilities. The good news is when they do appear, they’ll update the post we’re linking to, so by the time you see…

Node 18 goes LTS

October 27, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  Node 18 Becomes Active LTS with v18.12.0 — Formerly a ‘current’ release getting all the newest features, version 18 is now the active ‘Long Term Support’ release and will remain so until October 2023. Its codename is Hydrogen – quite fitting as the…

Node 19 released

October 20, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  Node.js 19 Released As an odd-numbered release, Node 19 will never become an ‘active LTS’ version, but sits as the ‘current’ release that gets all the tastiest new features until early 2023. It then reaches ‘end of life’ on June 1, 2023. “If…