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 and writing operations to streams, buffers, and directory manipulation.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

QUICK BYTES:

🛠 Code & Tools

node-mbus: Node Bindings to libmbus — A curious use case here. libmbus is used to communicate over the ‘meter bus’ protocol used by various utility (gas, electricity, etc.) meters. I have no idea how it works, but a homemade Node-powered smart meter would be pretty cool.

Ingo Fischer

⚡️ BRIEF RELEASES:

Fastify 4.2 – Fast, low overhead web framework.
Kafka.js 2.1 – Modern Apache Kafka client for Node.
pnpm 7.4 – Fast, space efficient package manager.
ioredis 5.1 – Performance-focused Redis client library.
Bree 9.1 – Powerful job scheduler.
qs 6.11 – Query string parser with nesting support.
cron-parser 4.5 – Library for parsing crontab directives.
zx 7.0.4 – Google’s tool for better JS shell scripting.
Instauto 9.1.9 – Instagram bot / automation library.

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Should Node.js support Web Workers?

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