Ada 1.0: Node’s Forthcoming New URL Parser — Node.js is moving to a new, faster URL parser called Ada (ironically written in C++ and notAda). It passes the full WHATWG and Node test suites, though we’d be surprised if there aren’t a few teething issues after the switchover.
Ada Authors
IN BRIEF:
❤️ Get ready for a Valentine’s Day gift from the Node.js core team in the shape of anticipated security releases across all maintained release lines.
Lambda Cold Starts is a neat page giving a live demonstration of how quickly different AWS Lambda serverless runtimes take to start. Given Node’s mature status on Lambda, it does surprisingly poorly?
▶ TypeScript Speedrun: A Crash Course for Beginners — If you want to pick up TypeScript and would find a video guide useful, this is for you. Matt has become well known recently for his educational TypeScript tweets and videos, and this is another good one that flies through the basics. (23 minutes.)
Matt Pocock
🛠 Code & Tools
depngn: Find Out if Dependencies Support a Given Node Version — A CLI tool that establishes whether or not the dependencies in your package.json will work against a specified version of Node. Could be helpful during your upgrades or even to look back at older versions when you get bug reports.
OmbuLabs
Electron 23.0 Released — The popular cross platform JavaScript, HTML + CSS desktop app framework gets bumped up to Node 18.12.1, Chromium 110, and V8 11.0. Windows 7/8/8.1 support has also been dropped, so we might start to see those versions of Windows lose the support of a lot of Electron based apps soon.
Electron Core Team
Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) — Help us build the future of work. We’re a friendly team working on hard problems. Node, Hapi, Postgres, Elastic, Redis, AI/LLM. 🚀 Qatalog
Software Engineer (Backend) — Join our “kick ass” team. Our software team operates from 17 countries and we’re always looking for more exceptional engineers. Sticker Mule
Find Tech Jobs with Hired — Hired makes job hunting easy-instead of chasing recruiters, companies approach you with salary details up front. Create a free profile now. Hired
Want more? The official Node.js Twitter account also had a 🐦 thread about Node jobs with various opportunities posted in the replies.
