Category: node js

Using Rust to build Node modules

July 28, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Introducing Even More Security Enhancements to npm — GitHub continues to up npm’s security game with enhancements that affect most of us in some way or another. There’s a streamlined login and publishing experience with the npm CLI, you can connect your GitHub and Twitter…

Common JavaScript issues developers face

July 22, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

RedwoodJS vs. Blitz.js: The Future of Fullstack Meta-Frameworks — Quite a lengthy review of both frameworks. Redwood is an opinionated React-based framework oriented heavily round the idea of a GraphQL server as the ‘one API’ at the heart of an app. Blitz, on the other…

cd /home/nodejs/news

July 21, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Working with File System Paths — Dr. Axel puts on his scuba gear and resumes his deep dive into Node with a look at ways to manipulate file system paths using core packages, including taking into account differences between Windows and POSIX systems. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer…

Vite 3, or in French: quick, quick, quick.

July 15, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

CKEditor 5 Is Here to Make Collaborative Writing Easy — A customizable rich text editor that allows you to build collaboration within your application in hours. Ready-to-use features like comments, track changes, real-time collaboration, version history and many more. Start your free trial to implement it now.…

Node 18.6 and custom ESM loaders

July 14, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Custom ESM Loaders: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How? — That’s a lot of questions! Custom loaders aren’t necessarily something you’ll use directly a lot, but are useful behind the scenes for controlling how modules are loaded – this post shows off some examples. Node…

An all-in-Bun JavaScript runtime.

July 8, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Bun: An Exciting, Speedy New JavaScript Runtime — Tired of Node? Tired of Deno? Never. But a new challenger has appeared. Bun is aimed at ‘outside of browser’ use cases and is built around WebKit’s JavaScriptCore, rather than V8. Some notable features: Includes its own…

All’s shell that ends shell.

July 7, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Executing Shell Commands from Node.js — Dr. Axel’s journey through the backrooms of Node.js continues with another in-depth guide – this time tackling running other programs from our Node apps. The focus is on the built-in child_process module here, but you might also want to…

Celebrating Svelte

July 1, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

🤯 Things looked quiet at first, but this has turned out to be a pretty strong week in terms of releases and things – we’ve even had to push a new Vue release and a new Deno webapp framework to the bottom of the issue!…

Should Node.js support Web Workers?

June 30, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Working with the File System from Node.js — Dr. Axel seems to be on a bit of a Node kick lately and comes back this week with a particularly deep dive on all things related to working with text files from Node, from simple reading…

What’s new in ECMAScript 2022?

June 24, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

❓ If you’re unfamiliar with ECMAScript as a term, it’s the name of the generic, standardized language behind JavaScript implementations, as JavaScript is technically a trademark of the Oracle Corporation. Longer explanation. New Course on Web Components — “Web Components are one of the most…