Node v24.4.0 (Current) Released — You can now use --watch-kill-signal to specify which signal is sent to a process being restarted by Node’s ‘watch mode’; spawn and spawnSync now propagate permission model flags; plus the usual V8 and dependency updates.

Rafael Gonzaga

Proposal: Shift Node.js to Annual Major Releases — A discussion is currently taking place around whether Node could move to having annual major releases and then reducing the LTS duration of the even-numbered releases from the current 30 months down to 24. Community feedback is encouraged on this thread.

Rafael Gonzaga et al.

Deploy Node in Docker the Right Way — Don’t settle for surface-level tutorials. Learn how containers are built, how to run Node apps properly inside them, and how to use Docker Compose and Kubernetes with confidence.

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Announcing TypeScript 5.9 Beta — Perhaps the biggest introduction is support for import defer, but there’s also a new node20 mode which is like nodenext but targeting ES2023. We also learn that the Go-powered ‘native port’ of TypeScript will eventually be available as TypeScript 7.

Microsoft

📊 The 500x Performance Gap Between Node Version Managers (and Why You Might Not Care) — “Your choice of Node.js version manager can make your shell startup 500x slower,” starts Pavel, who shares some benchmarks, but concludes it might not matter too much unless you’re spawning a lot of new shells.

Pavel Romanov

Necord: A Framework for Creating Discord Bots — It uses Nest and Discord.js under the hood. Some example apps show how easy it is to deploy bot functions. GitHub repo.

Necord

✉️ Upyo: A Simple Cross-Runtime Email Sending Library — A cross-runtime email library that provides a unified, type-safe API for sending emails both on SMTP and HTTP-based (e.g. SendGrid or Amazon SES) providers. TIL that ‘upyo’ (우표) means ‘postage stamp’ in Korean.

Hong Minhee

Your Playwright Tests, Now on Real iOS Safari Devices — Stop missing Safari bugs. Run tests on real iOS devices with BrowserStack, capture logs, and ship with confidence.

BrowserStack sponsor

Rewire 9.0: Easier Monkey-Patching for Unit Tests — Enhances CommonJS (only) modules with special setters and getters, for injecting mocks, inspecting private variables, and overriding module internals.

Johannes Ewald

Envalid 8.1: Environment Variable Validation — Ensure your program only runs when all of its environment dependencies are met. v8.1 is a minor update, though the first in two years.

Aaron Franks

cRonstrue 3.0: Convert Cron Expressions into Natural Language — Not just English either - it supports about thirty locales. There’s also an online demo.

Brady Holt