The latest npm registry shenanigans

The State of Benchmarking in Node.js — While Node has always been fast (thanks largely to its V8 underpinnings), there’s a renewed focus on performance in the face of benchmarks and claims from alternatives like Deno and Bun. Lars looks at the ecosystem of benchmarking options in the space.

Lars Kappert

New TypeScript Courses: Take the Learning Path — Join Mike North (Tech Lead at Stripe) for this series of brand new TypeScript courses. You’ll get hands-on practice covering both the fundamentals and advanced features like utility types and advanced generics. Learn best practices to configure and evolve your TS codebase!

Frontend Masters

MikroORM 6: The Polished, Flexible ORM — After over a year in development, MikroORM 6 is stable. It’s a TypeScript-based ORM, based around Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns, with support for MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite. v6 adds strict partial loading, cursor-based pagination, reworked support for raw SQL fragments, an all-new Getting Started guide, plus many other DX-focused improvements.

Martin Adámek

Node Boilerplate 2.0: A Skeleton for Express Microservices — There’s a few projects like this, but Santosh has clearly put effort into maintaining this one, which provides a quick, opinionated starting point for building Web services with Node, Express, TypeScript, along with some initial tests too.

Santosh Shinde

Oxlint: A New High Performance JS Linter — Designed to catch erroneous or useless code in zero-config fashion, Oxlint pitches itself against ESLint in terms of performance (claiming to be ’50-100 times faster’) while conceding it’s not a full replacement.

Boshen