#579 — May 27, 2025 Read on the Web 🖊️ I’m back from my week “off” attending Google I/O. Unfortunately there wasn’t much of relevance to Node, but it does give us two weeks of news to catch up on here 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper A Report From April’s Node.js Collaboration Summit — Twice a
#737 — May 23, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly A Brief History of JavaScript — JavaScript (originally named LiveScript) turns thirty years old this year and the Deno team has put together a fantastic timeline-based tour of how much things have progressed from its first appearance in Netscape Navigator, through offshoots like JScript,
#736 — May 16, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ‘I Think the Ergonomics of Generators is Growing on Me’ — The author notes generator functions have been widely available in JavaScript for a long time, yet “their practicality hasn’t exactly caught on.” This is a great look at what they are and where
#578 — May 13, 2025 Read on the Web 🖊️ I’m going to Google I/O next week, so Node Weekly will be taking a break and will return on May 27. If you happen to be at I/O too, say hi if you see an Englishman rambling on about newsletters!__Your editor, Peter Cooper Feedsmith: A Fresh
#735 — May 9, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly k6 1.0: Go-Powered Load Testing with JavaScript — A full-featured, configurable load generation tool that uses the Sobek Go-powered JavaScript engine to support writing test scripts in JavaScript. v1.0 promises stability, first-class TypeScript support, and better extensibility. Grafana Labs JSON-Powered White-Label Form Builder for Your
#577 — May 6, 2025 Read on the Web Node 24 (Current) Released — Node’s release lines are in flux – v18 has just gone EOL and now v23 bows out to let v24 be the ‘Current’ release for when you want all the cutting edge features. It comes with npm 11, V8 13.6 (hello
#734 — May 2, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly GSAP v3.13: JavaScript Animation Set Free — Last year the popular GSAP (a.k.a. GreenSock) animation library was acquired by Webflow and as of this new version the entire GSAP toolkit is freely available (including formerly paid addons like MorphSVG and SplitText) even for commercial use.
#576 — April 29, 2025 Read on the Web Koa 3.0: The Expressive HTTP Middleware Framework — Koa first appeared over a decade ago as a ‘next-generation’ Web framework that shared some of the lineage (and team) of Express.js, but leaning on more modern JavaScript features and ideas of the time. While Express has been
#733 — April 25, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly p5.js 2.0: The JavaScript Library for Creative Coding — A popular Processing-inspired creative coding library that makes it easy to create interactive, visual experiences (examples). v2.0 improves its font support, adds more ways to draw and manipulate text, adds a way to write shaders
#575 — April 22, 2025 Read on the Web Optimizing Node Performance with V8 GC Optimization — Matteo recently ▶️ gave a talk at dotJS about Node’s memory usage and decided to write it up into a blog post too. Matteo notes that high memory usage doesn’t necessarily mean you have a memory leak, explains how