--- title: "Eleventy 1.0" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 421 published_at: "2022-01-20" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/421" --- Plus a better SQLite3 driver for Node, a Discord library, and Node 17.4.0. | #​421 — January 20, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/421) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/bammidsgeedeqn4k060q.jpg)](https://remix.run/blog/remix-vs-next) [Remix vs Next.js](https://remix.run/blog/remix-vs-next) — While this is a comparison written by the Remix team, it seems open about its methodology and tries to be fair in its comparison. The comparison (and sometimes implicit criticism) of Jamstack has been a [Remix talking point](https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1483791954789818374) – not entirely unfairly either. 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