#571 — March 25, 2025 Read on the Web Node.js TSC Votes to Stop Distributing Corepack — Corepack was introduced as an (experimental) tool bundled with Node to help with managing versions of your package managers. Corepack will live on as a separately installable tool, but will be phased out from future Node releases following
#728 — March 21, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Rsdoctor 1.0: An Analyzer for Rspack and Webpack — A one-stop, intelligent build analyzer making it easier to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance. It’s part of the same family of tools as Rspack (a Rust-powered web bundler) but is fully webpack compatible. If you’ve
#570 — March 18, 2025 Read on the Web Node.js Gets an Official Community Space on Discord — While there have been numerous IRC channels and Discord and Slack servers where Node developers can congregate, the Nodeiflux Discord server has been promoted to being an official one – here’s the invite link if you’re a
#727 — March 14, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle — It looks deceptively simple – just 14 characters of JavaScript – but after working with JavaScript for 29 years, I got it wrong. A clue: it goes back to a browser-related quirk from 30 years ago.. Hillel Wayne TypeScript’s
#569 — March 11, 2025 Read on the Web 🔎 Node Modules Inspector — A tool that runs pnpm inside your browser, “installs” a package, then analyzes its dependencies. This can be useful for analyzing packages you already use, but also for simplifying your own projects, as 11ty’s Zach Leatherman did here. Anthony Fu Node Added TypeScript
#726 — March 7, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Report on How the Web is Really Using JavaScript — Each year, the HTTP Archive puts together the Web Almanac, a report on the ‘state of the Web’. The JavaScript section has just gone live and goes into depth on how much JS
#568 — March 4, 2025 Read on the Web Announcing TypeScript 5.8 — Four months in the making, TypeScript 5.8 lands with a strong Node focus. You can now use require() for ES modules in the nodenext module, there’s a new node18 module for developers who want to keep targeting Node 18, and most notably
#725 — February 28, 2025 Read on the Web ✏️ Whenever we include more than a few links about TypeScript, we get complaints from people who don’t like it. We get that, we love you folks, and we’re aware. TypeScript isn’t our main focus but we do cover it, including critical pieces. That in mind,
#567 — February 25, 2025 Read on the Web 👋 Just in case you missed the message, we took last week off but we’re back now until Easter, so you didn’t miss anything. 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor. Subverting Control with Weak References — Node supports WeakMap and WeakRef for working with weak references and James is
#724 — February 21, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly TC39 Advances 3 Proposals to Stage 4 — I love seeing Rob Palmer’s tweets about TC39’s progression of JavaScript proposals and this is a good roundup from this week’s meeting in Seattle. Areas covered include near-term features like Float16Array and import defer to more