Node.js 18 (Current) Released — Almost exactly one year after Node 16 and two after Node 14 comes the newest version of Node. It’s a ‘current’ branch release for now, but will become an LTS (Long-Term Support) release in October, and you can expect it to be supported till 2025. What’s new?

• As the new 'current' release, Node 18 will get all the fancy new features first, until October 2022.
• The Fetch API, backed by Undici is now available globally by default. Say hello to (and be aware of) fetch, Request, Response and other new globals.
• The Web Streams API is now exposed on the global scope, as are Blob and BroadcastChannel.
• The node:test test runner module.
• If you like laundry lists, the official release post by Beth Griggs is well worth working through too.

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The Most Popular Node.js Frameworks in 2022 — OK, it’s a listicle, and the data comes from surveys, GitHub stars, and gut feelings, but it’s a reasonably well put together summarized list of frameworks (back-end, full stack, CMSes, and more) as of right now.

Alex Ivanovs

Four Reasons to Avoid using npm link — npm link can be used to symlink a local package as a dependency during development, but the author has created the link package (which you can use via npx) as a safer and ‘more predictable’ alternative. All is explained within.

Hiroki Osame

How to Go from 1x Deploy a Week → 1x a Day → Many Times a Day.

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How to Debug Node.js Code Using Multiple Tools — A handy, if reasonably high level, tour of some debugging approaches.

Craig Buckler

chalk-animation: Colorful Animations in Terminal Output — Provides a variety of different effects for your text, including a rainbow effect, pulsing, and glitchiness.

Boris K

WebDAV 4.9: A WebDAV Client Written in TypeScript — WebDAV is a long standing (if slightly legacy nowadays) extension to HTTP for writing, moving, and otherwise changing files on a server.

Perry Mitchell

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Gladys Assistant: A Privacy-First, Open-Source Home Assistant — It runs on any Linux machine (including a Raspberry Pi) and uses Node under the hood.

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node-sqlite3 5.0.4: Async SQLite3 Bindings for Node — A point release, but prebuilt musl and arm64 binaries for Linux have been added.

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