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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…
⛱ I’m taking two weeks off and will be back on Wednesday, September 6. So if you don’t see the newsletter turn up for a while, rest assured it’s not your fault 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor ‘My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM’ — Mark, well known…
Developers often have to work with multiple programming languages depending on the task at hand. Sometimes, this is a result of choosing the right tool for a specific problem, or it is mandated by adhering to a specific technology adopted by a team. Within a…
PythonMonkey: JavaScript/WASM Interop for Python — The alpha release of a new way to bring Python and JavaScript together, by way of embedding Mozilla SpiderMonkey into the Python VM. This post introduces the concept with some examples, an idea of where the project is headed,…
Upgrading TypeORM with jscodeshift — TypeORM is an ORM that supports both Data Mapper and Active Record patterns, and last year it introduced some breaking changes that left the author of this post facing a lot of updates to be made. What to do? Write…
▶ 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…