#635 — April 20, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Introducing npm Package Provenance — As stewards of the official npm registry, GitHub has been keen to improve its security. As of this week, if you build npm packages through GitHub Actions, you can publish the provenance of a package which gives users a
#482 — April 18, 2023 Read on the Web Node.js 20 Released — A quirk of fate meant this issue was delayed for a couple of hours and.. Node v20 was launched in that time. Phew! This means we haven’t had much time to digest the news, though, but the key updates include: Experimental support for
#634 — April 13, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The JavaScript Equality Table Game — Minesweeper will feel like a walk in the park after this reminder of the horrors of JavaScript’s ==. If you need to go in depth, Section 7.2.14 of the ECMAScript spec will help, but otherwise? Stick to three
#481 — April 11, 2023 Read on the Web ℹ️ I mentioned it in the last issue, but in case you missed it, Node Weekly is now sent on Tuesdays, so if you missed us, we’re back. Until we take another break in August. 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor Trying Node’s Built-In Test Runner — In
#633 — April 6, 2023 Read on the Web ❓ JavaScript Weekly on a Thursday? It’s true. As well as it being Good Friday tomorrow, we’ve decided to move to Thursday permanently going forward. We hope you have a good Easter, if you celebrate it.__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript Weekly Croner: Cron for JavaScript and TypeScript
#632 — March 31, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Import Maps Now Supported Cross-Browser — ES modules provide a modern way to include and reuse JavaScript code in web apps, and import maps provide the bridge between using module names in code and where those modules can actually be loaded from. Thomas Steiner
#480 — March 30, 2023 Read on the Web ⏱ Node Weekly is moving to Tuesdays. We’re making some changes to our schedule, and since next Tuesday isn’t far away, we’re skipping next week’s issue and we’ll be back on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. See you then!__Peter Cooper, your editor Are Half of New npm
#631 — March 24, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem: npm Scripts — The latest in what has been a fascinating series on finding ‘low hanging fruit’ when it comes to performance in the JavaScript world. The author explains it best himself: “‘npm scripts’ are executed by JavaScript developers
#479 — March 23, 2023 Read on the Web 🔒 npm Granular Access Tokens Now Generally Available — The granular access token feature on the npm registry is now generally available, allowing you to restrict token access to specific packages, set expiration dates, limit access by IP range, and more. GitHub Automatic npm Publishing with GitHub
#630 — March 17, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly 🤖 Transformers.js: Running ML Models in the Browser — Transformers are a type of machine learning model often used for natural language or visual processing and while running such models directly in the browser is in its infancy, Transformers.js opens up some ML models