#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
#751 — September 5, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Mediabunny: A Complete Media Toolkit for JavaScript — Supporting both browsers and Node.js, this library lets you read, write and convert popular media file formats (e.g. MP4, MP3, and more) without needing to lean on dependencies like FFmpeg. You can make thumbnails, extract metadata,
#750 — August 29, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly An Illustrated Guide to Big O and Time Complexity — A fantastic JavaScript-oriented, interactive, visual essay about Big O notation and its role in describing algorithmic complexity. This is a beautiful bit of work, even if you’re already wise to O(log n) and O(n^2).
#591 — August 26, 2025 Read on the Web How We Migrated Our Rush.js Monorepo to Node Type Stripping — Since v23.6 (and in LTS since v22.18.0), Node has supported running (most) TypeScript code by stripping the types out first. The Calm team was excited about the potential for improving productivity and DX, and set
#749 — August 22, 2025 Read on the Web ☀️ We’re back after a week off, though I’m starting to think we should have taken two weeks off as it’s been quite quiet in JavaScript-land this August! Nevertheless, we still have a full issue for you today, so let’s get on to it.. 😉__Peter Cooper, your
#590 — August 19, 2025 Read on the Web ☀️ I’m back from a week’s vacation to find that the biggest Node story on social media is something we featured two weeks ago, namely that Node.js v22.18.0 (LTS) can now run TypeScript (sort of! – it uses type stripping) without a flag 😅 Nonetheless, we