--- title: "#221: A Proposal for Supporting ES Modules in Node" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 221 published_at: "2018-01-18" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/221" --- #221: A Proposal for Supporting ES Modules in Node This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/221) Node WeeklyJanuary 18, 2018 #221 Luke Edwards [Polka: Minimal, High-Perf Express.js Alternative](https://github.com/lukeed/polka)A native HTTP server with added support for routing, middleware, and sub-applications that claims to be 33-50% faster than Express for simple apps. Tierney Cyren [Cover Your Apps While Still Using npm](https://nodesource.com/blog/cover-your-apps-while-still-using-npm)As an online platform, the npm registry will go down occasionally. That’s normal, but what can we do to mitigate the pains of a single point of failure? 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