Matteo Collina's Personal Skills for AI-Assisted Node Development — The prolific Node contributor (not to mention creator of Fastify) is using AI in his workflows, but he wanted it to write code like he does. This boiled-down suite of hard-earned knowledge and best practices could be useful for your own agents, or you could read it directly as documentation such as in his Node, Fastify, and documentation skills.

Matteo Collina

Fast APIs Deserve Fast Analytics — When your Node app needs analytics, the answer shouldn't be a second database. TimescaleDB extends Postgres: hypertables, 95% compression, continuous aggregates. Analytics on live data, no pipelines. Start for free.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

In a Scan of 250 Node Repos for Blocking I/O, 76% Had It (And Why That Matters) — An empirical study scanning real repos for blocking I/O calls, plus benchmarks quantifying the true cost of using things like execSync, existsSync and readFileSync.

Ko-Hsin Liang

ArkType 2.2: Use Your TypeScript Types as Runtime Validators — A TypeScript-first validation library where you write a type once and it becomes both the static type and the runtime validator. In v2.2, type.fn brings runtime-validated functions, checking inputs and return values automatically.

ArkType

MikroORM 7: A TypeScript ORM Built on Proven Patterns — v7 dubs itself ‘unchained’ as it’s dropped Knex for Kysely, dropped all core dependencies, and removed its hard coupling to Node. In new features, it now has a type-safe query builder, supports Common Table Expressions (CTEs), and is now a native ESM package. For existing users, there’s a v6 to v7 upgrade guide.

Martin Adámek

Build Reliable Backends with Temporal (Course) — Learn Workflows, Activities & the TS SDK to build apps that recover from failures and manage state safely.

Temporal Technologies sponsor

node-sqlite3 Goes 6.0, and Becomes Unmaintained — The popular SQLite binding bows out with a final release before going unmaintained. Now's the time to look at alternatives like better-sqlite3 or Node's node:sqlite.

Ghost

⚙️ Systeminformation: Get Info about the System and OS — If you want to query what environment your Node program is running in, this is for you. Get info about audio devices, Bluetooth devices, printers, USB, CPU, architecture, wifi, and more. It’s frequently updated and already supports the latest Macs, including the MacBook Neo.

Sebastian Hildebrandt

Emittery 2.0: A Simple, Modern Async Event Emitter — A small, async event emitter for Node and the browser.

Sindre Sorhus