--- title: "Node.js in the stream." publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 443 published_at: "2022-06-23" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/443" --- Plus fire CLIs, a stack of releases, Node 18.4, and a Telegram bot framework. | #​443 — June 23, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/443) ![Node.js Weekly](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/v1653576619/lgfqinzbdqttwmhvljxb.png) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/z6whtyxuxtretaln6aro.jpg)](https://2ality.com/2022/06/web-streams-nodejs.html) [Using Web Streams in Node.js](https://2ality.com/2022/06/web-streams-nodejs.html) — Streams provide a handy abstraction for cleanly working with streaming data but _Web Streams_ (a.k.a. [WHATWG Streams](https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/)) are a different, more broadly supported beast to classic [Node.js streams.](https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html) Dr. Axel starts from the basics but goes into a _lot_ of depth here - a handy resource. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [Alternatives to Installing npm Packages Globally](https://2ality.com/2022/06/global-npm-install-alternatives.html) — A topic that often trips folks up, also covered by the venerable doctor. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0307dfec.jpg)](https://www.hellosign.com/products/api?utm_campaign=cooperpress_direct_62322&utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=programmatic&utm_content=newsletter) [Integrate eSignatures in Your App in Less Than a Week](https://www.hellosign.com/products/api?utm_campaign=cooperpress_direct_62322&utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=programmatic&utm_content=newsletter) — Enable document signing from anywhere with HelloSign's eSignature functionality. Test the API for free. HelloSign, a Dropbox Company sponsor [Puppeteer 15.0: Control Headless Chrome from Node](https://pptr.dev/) — [Playwright](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright) has taken a lot of the browser remote control attention in recent years, but Puppeteer, which focuses on Chrome, is still a great option. It now uses Chromium 103 and supports Node 18. Google [Microvium: A Tiny JavaScript Engine for Microcontrollers](https://coder-mike.com/blog/2022/06/11/microvium-is-very-small/) — How tiny? Try 8.5 kilobytes tiny and using just 34 bytes of RAM when idle. JavaScript has never been a natural fit for such constraints but projects like this (and [Elk](https://github.com/cesanta/elk) or [low.js](https://www.neonious-iot.com/lowjs/)) are doing interesting things (here’s [how Microvium works](https://coder-mike.com/behind-microvium/)) and this one has particularly good language support. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/coder-mike/microvium). Michael Hunter **QUICK BYTES:** - Would you like a paginated list of [every npm package in alphabetical order?](https://socket.dev/npm) Congratulations to `@zzzzzzzzz/switcha` for coming in last. I'd love to see some stats on just how many of these packages are total nonsense. - [Node 18.4.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.4.0/) is out, but it's a relatively minor release. - The folks over at Deno have [raised $21m in series A funding](https://deno.com/blog/series-a) to push ahead with their V8 isolates based Deno Deploy cloud functions service. - We've mentioned it before, but as it's still new to many folks, here's a quick, practical look at the [built-in command line arguments parser](https://pawelgrzybek.com/til-node-js-18-3-comes-with-command-line-arguments-parser/) in Node 18.3+. **BRIEF RELEASES:** [npm 8.13](https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.13.0) [Pino 8.1](https://github.com/pinojs/pino) – Fast JSON-powered logging. 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