#596 — October 14, 2025 Read on the Web 📂 A Modern Guide to Reading and Writing Files in Node — A comprehensive guide to various methods for working with files, from promise-based methods through to working with streams, processing files concurrently, using file handles, and memory-efficient techniques. Luciano Mammino A Way to Integrate Python ASGI with Node.js
#756 — October 10, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ▶ Vite: The Documentary — From the same creators of the fantastic ▶️ Node.js, ▶️ Angular and ▶️ React documentaries comes an up to date look at Vite, the build tool that has taken the JavaScript ecosystem by storm in recent years. Many luminaries make an appearance to
#595 — October 7, 2025 Read on the Web 15 Recent Node Features That Can Replace Popular npm Packages — Many features that once required third-party packages are now built into the runtime itself. Here’s a look at some of the most notable that you may want to experiment with, prior to reducing unnecessary dependencies. Lizz
#755 — October 3, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The State of JavaScript 2025 Survey — Each year, Devographics runs an epic survey of as many JavaScript community members as it can and turns the results into an interesting report on the state of the ecosystem – here’s the results from 2024. If
#594 — September 30, 2025 Read on the Web 🗓️ We’re back after taking a week off for my birthday. I’ve never bothered to do that before, but I figured I’d give it a go, and.. it was good 😅 We’re now back every week until Christmas!__Peter Cooper, your editor A Year of Improving Node.js
#754 — September 26, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Give Your AI Eyes: Introducing Chrome DevTools MCP — The Chrome team has released an MCP server for Chrome DevTools, enabling agents like Claude Code or OpenAI Codex to use the DevTools to debug and analyze the performance and behavior of your webapps (or
#753 — September 19, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The ‘Shai-Hulud’ npm Supply Chain Attack Rumbles On — Now named after a term for the sandworms of the Dune universe, the ongoing malicious supply chain attack affecting the npm ecosystem has grown in scale with hundreds of packages affected in an attempt to
#593 — September 16, 2025 Read on the Web 🗓️ We’re taking next week off, so we will be back in your inbox again on Tuesday, September 30.__Peter Cooper, your editor Node.js v24.8.0 (Current) Released — The big new feature is added support for inspecting HTTP/2 network calls made from Node in Chrome DevTools. There have
#752 — September 12, 2025 Read on the Web If you have any interest in music and being able to render music or generate music with JavaScript, be sure to check out the very end of this issue where we’ve dedicated an entire section to the topic 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript Weekly How to Keep
#592 — September 9, 2025 Read on the Web A Major Supply Chain Attack Hits the npm Ecosystem — In July, Socket warned us about a phishing campaign targeting npm package publishers. Sadly, a prolific package author (among others, like DuckDB, who explain how the attack worked on them) fell victim to the scam, resulting