#610 — February 5, 2026 Read on the Web The State of JavaScript 2025: Backend Frameworks — The results of the popular annual JavaScript survey are out, and we’re focusing on the most relevant bit to Node.js: backend frameworks. Express still leads the way, but NestJS continues to grow rapidly. Meanwhile, Hono comes top in
#771 — February 3, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Four Heavyweights Drop Updates Four stalwarts of the JavaScript ecosystem all shipped notable releases this week, and odds are you’re using at least one of them: Gatsby v5.16 proves Gatsby, once considered neck-and-neck with Next.js in the React world, is not ‘dead’. The headline
#609 — January 29, 2026 Read on the Web 🌊 Improving Single Executable Application Building in Node — First introduced two years ago, Node has a (still experimental) feature to build single executable applications that can be deployed to machines that don’t have Node installed. This week’s Node.js 25.5 release, with its –build-sea flag, moves the
#770 — January 27, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Introducing LibPDF: PDF Parsing and Generation from TypeScript — LibPDF bills itself as ‘the PDF library TypeScript deserves’ and supports parsing, modifying, signing and generating PDFs with a modern API in Node, Bun, and the browser. GitHub repo. Documenso JavaScript Frameworks – Heading into 2026
#608 — January 22, 2026 Read on the Web Node.js 25.4.0 (Current) Released — Another gradual step forward for Node with require(esm) now marked as stable, as well as the module compile cache, along with a variety of other minor tweaks. Joyee Cheung of the Node team has written a thread on Bluesky going deeper
#769 — January 20, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly jQuery 4.0 Released — 20 years on from its original release, the ever-popular (in terms of actual usage) library reaches 4.0 with a migration to ES modules (compatible with modern build tools) along with dropping support for IE 10 and older. With jQuery being
#607 — January 15, 2026 Read on the Web ⚠️ The Node.js January 13, 2026 Security Releases — Originally expected in December, these releases (of Node.js 25.3.0, 24.13.0, 22.22.0, and 20.20.0) finally landed this week, largely due to their complexity and the scope of the vulnerabilities they tackle. More on that in the next item! The Node.js
#768 — January 13, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Web Dependencies are Broken; Can We Fix Them? — Lea, who has worked at the heart of Web Standards for years, delivers a compelling (and educational) call to action about a problem every JavaScript developer has encountered: why is managing dependencies and introducing them
#606 — January 8, 2026 Read on the Web 🎉 Happy New Year! Also, a quick reminder that Node Weekly is now sent every Thursday as part of a reshuffle for many of our newsletters. __Your editor, Peter Cooper npm to Implement ‘Staged Publishing’ After Turbulent Shift Off Classic Tokens — 2025 was a tricky year
#767 — January 6, 2026 Read on the Web 🎉 Happy New Year. JavaScript Weekly is now landing in your inboxes on Tuesdays, so here we are! Let’s see what 2026 brings.__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript Weekly The 2025 JavaScript Rising Stars — At the start of each year, Michael rounds up the projects in the