Sidequest.js: A New Scalable Job Execution Option for Node — A modern, scalable background job processor for Node apps that includes a Web-based dashboard, the ability to support multiple backends out of the box, and TS-first ergonomics. GitHub repo. LGPL 3.0 licensed.

Merencia and Guizzo

Memetria K/V: Redis Hosting Built for Node.js — Host Redis OSS and Valkey with deep analytics, memory profiling, and large key detection—tailored for the way Node.js applications scale and behave.

Memetria sponsor

Node.js v24.6.0 (Current) Released — A relatively minor step forward. Node 24.6 lets you use your system’s trusted certificates by setting the NODE_USE_SYSTEM_CA environment variable (a la --use-system-ca), zlib adds Zstd dictionary support, and http adds a keepAliveTimeoutBuffer option for servers.

Rafael Gonzaga

Express App Support Coming to Cloudflare Workers — While there are now things like Hono for quickly building Express-like webapps across runtimes, Express nonetheless maintains its position as the most popular option for now. So it’s great to see edge platform Cloudflare Workers adding direct support for it – though it’s local dev only for now.

James Ross

🖼️==🖼️? LooksSame: A Library to Visually Compare Images — Built for visual regression purposes, LooksSame takes human color perception into account, so it’s flexible and not just a precise comparison. (Note that it’s PNG only, to avoid introducing large dependencies.)

Yandex and Contributors

zx v8.8: Write Better Shell Scripts with Node.js — A popular way to make shell scripting a more pleasant experience in Node with useful wrappers around child_process, argument escaping, and sensible defaults. v8.8 improves zx’s piping story. (Docs.)

Google

Secure Your AI Agents So That You Can Protect Your Users — Whether you have a B2B or B2C use case, Auth0 is a full IdP that provides robust security like MFA and continuous threat monitoring.

Auth0 sponsor

Pyodide: Python Compiled to WebAssembly — A port of CPython to WebAssembly that can be used both in the browser and from within Node.js. You can, for example, import Pyodide into a Node app and then run Python code within it.

Pyodide Contributors and Mozilla

QuickJS Sandbox 3.0: Execute JS/TS in a QuickJS Powered Sandbox — QuickJS is a small, embeddable JavaScript engine built by Fabrice Bellard and this extends it to make it easy to run code in an isolated sandboxed environment, along with some basic Node module support and a virtual file system. GitHub repo.

Sebastian Wessel

🤖 YIKES: An LLM-Powered Text Adventure Game Engine — It’s early days, but LLMs open up some interesting opportunities for the classic game genre.

Scott Elcomb