--- title: "Node gets a new URL parser" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 473 published_at: "2023-02-09" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/473" --- Plus Puppeteer mistakes to avoid, Node 19.6, and a Node-themed Valentine's Day gift? | #​473 — February 9, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/473) Together with [![Dynaboard logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_500,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/xh5y6qe2tcrjx1vxyfer.png)](https://dynaboard.com/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=visualide-q12023) ![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,q_auto/vpoqc7pfisnhqlfjs8x7.jpg)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v19.6.0/) [Node v19.6.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v19.6.0/) — Node 19 moves up to npm 9.4 (which notably implements the pnpm-like [isolated mode](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/main/accepted/0042-isolated-mode.md) (via `--install-strategy=linked`) and the still experimental [loader hooks](https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#loaders) can now chain. [Node 18.14.0 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.14.0/) is also out and features a significant upgrade to npm 9.3. Node.js Project [Ada 1.0: Node's Forthcoming New URL Parser](https://github.com/ada-url/ada/releases/tag/v1.0.0) — Node.js is moving to a new, faster URL parser called [Ada](https://ada-url.github.io/ada/) (ironically written in C++ and _not_ [Ada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_%28programming_language%29)). 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 [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d3503394.png)](https://dynaboard.com/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=visualide-q12023) [Dynaboard: A Visual Web App IDE Made for Developers](https://dynaboard.com/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=visualide-q12023) — Build high performance public and private web apps in a collaborative — full-stack — development environment. 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Matt has become well known recently for his educational TypeScript tweets and videos, and this is another good one that flies through the basics. _(23 minutes.)_ Matt Pocock [Did You Know That You're Already a Distributed Systems Developer?](https://temporal.io/blog/already-a-distributed-systems-developer) Temporal Technologies sponsor [On Using Playwright in GitHub Actions](https://radekmie.dev/blog/on-playwright-in-github-actions/) Radosław Miernik [Should You Use `char`, `varchar`, or `text` in Postgres?](https://maximorlov.com/char-varchar-text-postgresql/) Maxim Orlov 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/zr9mhlyxsw1msvnt53ri.jpg)](https://github.com/upgradejs/depngn) [depngn: Find Out if Dependencies Support a Given Node Version](https://github.com/upgradejs/depngn) — 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](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-23-0) — 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](https://github.com/yisibl/resvg-js) — Powered by Rust’s [resvg](https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg/) on the backend, this works in both Node _and_ the browser (via WebAssembly – [live demo](https://resvg-js.vercel.app/)) for converting SVG to PNG with a high level of SVG spec support. [This release](https://github.com/yisibl/resvg-js/releases/tag/v2.4.0) boasts “2-3x faster performance” than before. 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