#542 — July 30, 2024 Read on the Web Node.js Adds Experimental Support for TypeScript — In this pull request, Node merged an experimental ability to transpile TypeScript into JavaScript, ultimately letting Node directly ‘run TypeScript’. However, no type checking is performed and, as Matt Pocock explains, experimental and TypeScript-only features are a no-no. Perhaps
#698 — July 25, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Astro 4.12: Say Hello to Server Islands — The flexible Astro framework for building modern content-based sites continues to go from strength to strength. v4.12 includes a new concept of server islands, a way to integrate static HTML and server-side generated components together. Erika and
#541 — July 23, 2024 Read on the Web Node.js v22.5.0 (Current) Released – But Don’t Install It! — A notable release for three reasons: first, the WebSocket feature in node:http is now exposed. Second, remember how Node is embedding SQLite? node:sqlite is now included and ready to play with. Third, however, v22.5.0 introduced a nasty bug,
#697 — July 18, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Exploring JS: JavaScript Books for Programmers — You’ll know Dr. Axel from his fantastic blog posts over the years, or his once tenure as JavaScript Weekly’s editor, but he also has an impressive array of no-nonsense books that you can mostly read for free
#540 — July 16, 2024 Read on the Web A Guide to Reading and Writing Node.js Streams — A post from the creator of Fastify (and a Node.js TSC member) is always a treat. Matteo reminds us of the benefits of using Node’s powerful streaming data features, where they make sense, and how to handle
#696 — July 11, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly es-toolkit: A Modern JavaScript Utility Library — Think Lodash but newer, faster, smaller, and with tree shaking and built-in TypeScript support. The reference guide shows off the supported functions so far – it’s not quite as extensive as Lodash, but it’s getting there with
#539 — July 9, 2024 Read on the Web Node to Get SQLite Built-In? — Deno has its own built in key/value store powered by SQLite – perhaps Node could gain similar powers by this initial effort to bake SQLite into the Node distribution. It’s early days, but interesting to see. More discussion here. Colin Ihrig
#695 — July 4, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly How to Annul Promises in JavaScript — You can ‘cancel’ XHR and fetch requests, but can you cancel regular promises? Currently, no, but Zachary looks into doing the next best thing: telling a promise the game’s up, and discarding/ignoring its eventual results. Zachary Lee regex
#538 — July 2, 2024 Read on the Web How We Tamed Node.js Event Loop Lag: A Deepdive — Node famously uses very few threads yet can handle a large number of clients performantly, as long as the work associated with each client is ‘small.’ When you get nested loops, as in this story, however,
#694 — June 27, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Look at JavaScript’s New Set Methods — Finding the intersection, union, and difference between sets, among other set-related tasks, is now a piece of cake. Available in Node 22+, Chrome/Edge 122+, Firefox 127+, Safari 17+, and now considered a ‘baseline’ feature. Brian Smith (MDN)