Node v19.6.0 (Current) Released — Node 19 moves up to npm 9.4 (which notably implements the pnpm-like isolated mode (via --install-strategy=linked) and the still experimental loader hooks can now chain. Node 18.14.0 (LTS) is also out and features a significant upgrade to npm 9.3.

Node.js Project

Ada 1.0: Node's Forthcoming New URL Parser — Node.js is moving to a new, faster URL parser called Ada (ironically written in C++ and not Ada). It passes the full WHATWG and Node test suites, though we’d be surprised if there aren’t a few teething issues after the switchover.

Ada Authors

Dynaboard: A Visual Web App IDE Made for Developers — Build high performance public and private web apps in a collaborative — full-stack — development environment.

Dynaboard sponsor

Puppeteer in Node: Common Mistakes to Avoid — Puppeteer is a powerful library offering Chromium-flavored browser automation, but there are a variety of pitfalls that can trip you up. Find out some of the common mistakes you should avoid.

Greg Gorlen

Did You Know That You're Already a Distributed Systems Developer?

Temporal Technologies sponsor

depngn: Find Out if Dependencies Support a Given Node Version — A CLI tool that establishes whether or not the dependencies in your package.json will work against a specified version of Node. Could be helpful during your upgrades or even to look back at older versions when you get bug reports.

OmbuLabs

Electron 23.0 Released — The popular cross platform JavaScript, HTML + CSS desktop app framework gets bumped up to Node 18.12.1, Chromium 110, and V8 11.0. Windows 7/8/8.1 support has also been dropped, so we might start to see those versions of Windows lose the support of a lot of Electron based apps soon.

Electron Core Team

resvg-js 2.4: A High-Performance SVG Renderer and Toolkit — Powered by Rust’s resvg on the backend, this works in both Node and the browser (via WebAssembly – live demo) for converting SVG to PNG with a high level of SVG spec support. This release boasts “2-3x faster performance” than before.

Miscellaneous

Database Caching Without Changing a Line of Code — Increase throughput and lower query latency using PolyScale’s intelligent database cache. Implement in minutes.

PolyScale.ai sponsor