Node v17 released

Node v17 (Current) Released — Being sixteen flew by in a flash for me at least, but so too has it for Node 16 remaining the cutting edge ‘release’ line. v17 now takes over that role with Node 16 becoming an Active LTS version (as of next week, technically) to be maintained through to 2024. But what’s new in Node 17?

• Includes OpenSSL 3.0 which reintroduces FIPS support.
• Uses the V8 9.5 engine which introduces the Intl.DisplayNames v2 API.
• The readline module now has a way to read data from Readable streams.
• npm upgraded to v8.1.0.
• Node v17.0.1 already dropped to fix a bug relating to building native addons.

Bethany Nicolle Griggs and the Node.js Team

Secure Redis Hosting for Your Team — RedisGreen includes all the latest features to help you build, along with the security, scaling and performance that teams need as they grow.

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How to ‘Cancel’ an HTTP Request — The so-called Abort API allows you to cancel asynchronous tasks such as in-flight HTTP requests and here’s how to use it in the latest Node.js version. Simon has also given a 30 minute talk about AbortController generally if you want to learn more.

Simon Plenderleith

JavaScript Obfuscator: A Way to Scramble Your JS Code — Transforms your code into a functionally equivalent representation that’s harder to understand or modify. A lot of folks find this sort of fiddling to be of little value given it can be reversed to some extent anyway, but there’s a Web interface if you want to give it a try.

Timofey Kachalov, Tiago Serafim, et al.