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🥳 Talking of which, TypeScript 5.3 has been released. It supports the latest updates to the import attributes proposal, has enhanced type narrowing in numerous contexts, provides interactive inlay hints for types in the editor, and more. Node.js 20.x (LTS) Runtime Now Available in AWS Lambda…
👍 Note: There’s a ‘last update’ badge saying 2021, but it’s incorrect – there was a big update this month 😄 ▶ Talks from the Node.js Collab Summit 2023 — If you want to stay up to date with the latest discussions within the Node project, here are the…
Honey, I Shrunk the npm Package! — Compression sits under the hood of everything on the modern Web, including npm packages (distributed as gzipped tarballs). Could the standard gzip approach be showing its age in both speed and effectiveness? Jamie runs a package through a…
Does Node.js Need a Mascot? — Go has its cute gopher, Deno has a dinosaur, Bun has, well.. a bun, but what does Node have? Nothing official, as such, and Matteo Collina ponders whether we should change that. Most of the suggestions seem tongue in…
Node v20.6.0 (Current) Released — As we teased last week, the latest Node release includes all-new built-in support for setting environment variables via .env files, so you may no longer have a need for dotenv, depending on your use case. You can now also use…
A Day in the Life of an Ethical Hacker — Ethical hackers proactively identify security weaknesses before they can be exploited by malicious actors. Learn practical steps for getting started with ethical hacking, from reconnaissance and vulnerability exploitation to responsible disclosure. Snyk A Look at TypeScript…
▶ Recreating a JS Runtime to Understand Node’s Magic — Popular speaker, educator, Microsoft MVP and Node.js core team member Erick gives a very enthusiastic talk on the latest ‘hello world’ in the JavaScript world: building a runtime 😏 Somehow, Erick manages to run through the…
qnm: A CLI Tool to Look Into node_modules — If you’ve been into a node_modules folder and been overwhelmed, this tool (supporting both npm and Yarn) lets you dig around with extra guidance as to what is what. You can use fuzzy search to find…
???? That said, the fs readdir and opendir functions get a new recursive option which, a commenter notes, could replace some popular third party packages that do the same thing, such as recursive-readdir which gets over 5 million downloads a week(!) Smooth Logging for Node.js…