TypeScript gets on board with Node’s type stripping

Turbocharging V8 with Mutable Heap Numbers — The V8 team uses the JetStream2 benchmark suite to investigate performance issues and has implemented a new optimization yielding not just a 2.5x improvement in the async-fs benchmark but in other areas too. A demonstration that not only does the Node team make Node faster, the V8 team does too.

Victor Gomes (V8)

Web Scraping with Playwright — I’d be surprised if you got away with scraping YouTube like this for long (let’s say Google aren’t big fans of the approach) but the techniques demonstrated are useful more generally too.

Marcin Wanago

Malibu: Framework-Agnostic CSRF Middleware — ESM only, zero-dependency, and TypeScript types are included. It’s compatible with Express, Tinyhttp, and most modern frameworks based around the core HTTP package.

Reinaldy Rafli

wacat 1.4: Tests Your Webapp Against ‘Cat Chaos’ — Uses a virtual ‘cat walking across your keyboard’ approach to tormenting apps with random clicks and form submissions, now with a stronger focus on using AI to generate both valid and invalid inputs.

Mika Tapanainen