If you request a URL that returns an application/JSON result Firefox will give you a “Download this file” dialog by default. If you rather want the JSON data to show up just as a XML, RSS or HTML page would you could download this little extension called JsonView that will do this for you. Another nice little tool to keep in your tool belt.
#757 — October 17, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Bun 1.3: The Full-Stack JavaScript Runtime — Arriving a few hours after last week’s issue (natch!) Bun 1.3 remains the big news of the past week. Bun is a performance and DX-focused JavaScriptCore-powered runtime which, with v1.3, balances being a drop-in Node.js replacement with
#596 — October 14, 2025 Read on the Web 📂 A Modern Guide to Reading and Writing Files in Node — A comprehensive guide to various methods for working with files, from promise-based methods through to working with streams, processing files concurrently, using file handles, and memory-efficient techniques. Luciano Mammino A Way to Integrate Python ASGI with Node.js
#756 — October 10, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ▶ Vite: The Documentary — From the same creators of the fantastic ▶️ Node.js, ▶️ Angular and ▶️ React documentaries comes an up to date look at Vite, the build tool that has taken the JavaScript ecosystem by storm in recent years. Many luminaries make an appearance to
#595 — October 7, 2025 Read on the Web 15 Recent Node Features That Can Replace Popular npm Packages — Many features that once required third-party packages are now built into the runtime itself. Here’s a look at some of the most notable that you may want to experiment with, prior to reducing unnecessary dependencies. Lizz
#755 — October 3, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly The State of JavaScript 2025 Survey — Each year, Devographics runs an epic survey of as many JavaScript community members as it can and turns the results into an interesting report on the state of the ecosystem – here’s the results from 2024. If
#594 — September 30, 2025 Read on the Web 🗓️ We’re back after taking a week off for my birthday. I’ve never bothered to do that before, but I figured I’d give it a go, and.. it was good 😅 We’re now back every week until Christmas!__Peter Cooper, your editor A Year of Improving Node.js
