Yarn 4.0 Released — Yarn began life as an npm alternative that resolved several major pain points with npm at the time, particularly around performance. It remains a popular option and v4 introduces a new ‘hardened mode’ to protect you from certain security issues and boasts an improved constraints engine and performance almost on par with pnpm.
Maël Nison
Monitor Your Node.js and Remix Application with AppSignal — With insights into the performance of Remix components like loaders and routing, AppSignal helps you refine your Remix application. This blog post will show you how to start monitoring your Remix application using AppSignal.
AppSignal
LTS vs Current:A Reminder about Node’s Different Release Lines — The big news last week was the release of Node v21 which becomes the new ‘current’ release line. On Mastodon, Emilia reminded me that the current release line is considered unstable, so v21 is not necessarily something every developer should rush to ‘upgrade’ to. She’s right, so I wanted to link to Node’s official Releases page which gives a more visual representation of how the releases relate.
Node.js Project
IN BRIEF:
The latest ▶️ Node.js Technical Steering Committee meeting is an eye opener if you’re reliant on Node.js on Windows. Skip to around 35 minutes in to hear about the problems the project could face if Node faced a sudden, significant vulnerability on Windows: “I don’t think the project will be able to fix it.”
You can now sponsor Yagiz Nizipli, creator of the Ada URL parser now used in Node, and support his Node.js performance work, among other things, on GitHub Sponsors.
Hashnode is a popular blogging platform for developers and it now has a headless mode so you can use Hashnode’s platform for writing your posts but then render them out wherever and however you like.
It’s early days, but Backroad is an interesting attempt to create something like Python’s Streamlit, but for Node. The basic idea is you focus on building the backend of your app with the frontend mostly taken care of by the framework. GitHub repo.
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