The State of JavaScript 2025: Backend Frameworks — The results of the popular annual JavaScript survey are out, and we’re focusing on the most relevant bit to Node.js: backend frameworks. Express still leads the way, but NestJS continues to grow rapidly. Meanwhile, Hono comes top in developer satisfaction.

Devographics

Node.js 25.6.0 (Current) Released — async_hooks can now opt out of Promise tracking to cut instrumentation overhead in production. The built-in test runner supports per-run env injection (see the env option here), TextEncoder gets some SIMD-backed speedups, and the URL parser updates to Unicode 17.

Antoine du Hamel

Stop AI Agents from Generating Outdated Clerk Code — Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code are trained on old Clerk patterns. Clerk Skills is a one-command way to give your agent up-to-date knowledge to build auth flows, sync users to databases, set up organizations, and more. One command, and it knows how to build auth the right way.

Clerk sponsor

How to Migrate from Chalk to Node's styleText — Chalk is great for terminal styling, but Node's built-in styleText handles most of the same tasks with no dependency required. There's even a codemod to migrate automatically.

Richie McColl

Explicit Resource Management in JavaScript — You can use using for deterministic cleanup, calling Symbol.dispose/asyncDispose at scope exit without try/finally. A small fix for leaks and forgotten teardowns in streams, observers, locks, and similar APIs.

Matt Smith

Why JSBin Went Down for 3 Days (and How It Was Fixed) — JSBin, the long-running collaborative JavaScript pastebin, went offline for roughly three days in January after a huge traffic spike overwhelmed its tiny single-CPU server. Node.js wasn’t the root cause, but running an ancient Node 7(!) runtime amplified the failure. Remy tells the full story.

Remy Sharp

How to Tinker with Node.js Core on ARM64 Windows — Building Node on ARM64 Windows? The toolchain setup has some gotchas. Luckily, Joyee walks us past them.

Joyee Cheung

Skip the Second Database for Analytics — Analytics on live data, no second database. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so you scale without splitting. Try free.

Tiger Data sponsor

🕒 Croner 10.0: Cron-Style Triggers and Evaluation — Trigger functions on any cron schedule using cron syntax. It can also evaluate cron expressions to give you a list of upcoming times. v10.0 brings full OCPS (Open Cron Pattern Specification) 1.4 compliance and even more scheduling options.

Hexagon

🔐 OTPAuth: One-Time Password (HOTP/TOTP) Library — When you log in to a site with 2FA and you’re asked for six digits from your authentication app, that’s a Time-based One-Time Password (or TOTP). This library for Node, Deno, Bun and the browser lets you work with both TOTPs and HOTPs (HMAC-based OTPs).

Héctor Molinero Fernández

log-update 7.1: Log by Overwriting Previous Output in the Terminal — Imagine a console.log that overwrites its output on the same line. Think progress updates, animations, etc. v7.1 gains synchronized output rendering.

Sindre Sorhus

💡 Nanoclaw: A Personal Claude Assistant That Runs in macOS Containers — OpenClaw (née Clawdbot) is incredible, yet slightly scary. If you want something lighter and safer to hack on, Nanoclaw is simpler and uses macOS Tahoe's native container support to stay sandboxed.

Gavriel C

🎥 simple-ffmpegjs: A Helper for Complex FFmpeg Operations — A helper library to simplify programmatic video composition, transitions, and audio mixing without complex raw FFmpeg commands. Think crossfade transitions, text overlays with animations, and audio track mixing, etc.

Brayden Blackwell