#587 — July 22, 2025 Read on the Web Laravel and Node.js: PHP in Watt Runtime — In June we featured php-node, a new way to ‘bridge the gap’ between PHP and Node.js by being able to embed PHP into Node apps. Now they’ve gone a step further by using php-node and the Watt app
#745 — July 18, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The JavaScript Date Quiz — Prepare to get irritated? JavaScript’s native date parsing features are notoriously arcane and prone to cause surprises if you step off the beaten track. So while we await the broad availability of the Temporal API, why not put your
#586 — July 15, 2025 Read on the Web Node v24.4.0 (Current) Released — You can now use –watch-kill-signal to specify which signal is sent to a process being restarted by Node’s ‘watch mode’; spawn and spawnSync now propagate permission model flags; plus the usual V8 and dependency updates. Rafael Gonzaga 💡 The Node team has
#744 — July 11, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Vercel Acquires NuxtLabs — Vercel has acquired the company that caretakes the Nuxt project and employs some of its core team – a move Vue creator Evan You is quite optimistic about. Vercel now manages, or at least supports, several key projects like Next.js,
#585 — July 8, 2025 Read on the Web jsonrepair: Repair Invalid JSON Documents — This has lots of possible use cases, including dealing with weird JSON coming back from LLMs or non-compliant JSON spat out by poorly built software. You can use it from Node, as a CLI tool, or try a basic version online.
#743 — July 4, 2025 Read on the Web 🖊️ It’s been a quiet week with heatwaves and holidays seeming to slow the usual flow, but we’ve made it.. thanks to a few items out of left field 😅 For our US readers, happy Independence Day!__Peter Cooper, your editor ☀️ JavaScript Weekly ☀️ Deno 2.4:
#584 — July 1, 2025 Read on the Web Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025 — We’ve reached the half way point for the year, so why not take a moment to reflect on the potential of Node as it stands right now? Ashwin reminds us of various aspects including the use of ES modules, built-in
#742 — June 27, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s New? — It’s that time of year again. The Ecma General Assembly has approved the ES2025 language specification, which you can read in full here if you have a gallon of coffee to hand — or you can
#583 — June 24, 2025 Read on the Web The Roadmap to AdonisJS 7 — Adonis is a popular TypeScript-first ‘batteries included’ web framework with a rich set of features, and its developers say they’re “shifting gears” and stepping up with more frequent major releases. v7 promises a lot, including Node.js diagnostic channel support, a
#741 — June 20, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 📖 Exploring JavaScript (ES2025 Edition) — Dr. Axel is back with his latest book covering all things relating to modern JavaScript at the language level (think built-in data types, modularity, how objects, classes and promises work, etc.). As with all of Axel’s books, it’s available