Say hi to Rocket Turtle

February 27, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js Weekly

🚀🐢  𝕏 Meet Node’s New Mascot? — Over on Twitter/X, the official Node account unveiled the result of the Node.js mascot design contest that ran recently, and Node’s new mascot is… Rocket Turtle (as seen above) by Angela Angelini. The folks over on Reddit aren’t huge fans, it seems?

The Node.js Project

Instant GraphQL Backends for Node.js — Whether you’re a GraphQL enthusiast, a Node.js developer, or someone striving for optimal API performance, this guide will equip you enough to accelerate your API creation journey and focus on meaningful backend work.

Hasura

Node’s 2023, Summarized in An Article — Rafael, of the Node.js TSC and Fastify core team, shares a useful update on the evolution of Node.js over the past year, how the team ensures Node is well tested and reliable, changes to Node’s vendor dependencies (of which it gained three in 2023), as well as enhancements to Node’s security and Web presence.

Rafael Gonzaga

IN BRIEF:

  • 📅 Last week, we mentioned a forthcoming Honeypot documentary about Node.js (you can ▶️ watch the trailer here) but got the release date wrong: it’s due on March 21 – so a few weeks to wait yet 🙂

  • Git 2.44 is the first new Git release of 2024 and Taylor Blau takes a look at the enhancements.

  • TypeScript 5.4 RC is also here. There’s nothing really Node-specific, but TypeScript users will want to take a look regardless.

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