Javet 3.0: Embed Node and V8 in Java Apps — Lets you spin up V8 interpreters or full Node.js runtimes within JVM-based apps. It’s cross platform, mature, and well maintained with support for Node 20 and V8 11. There’s a helpful slide presentation that fleshes out the idea and demonstrates how the integration works.

Sam Cao

Yarn 4.0 Released — Yarn began life as an npm alternative that resolved several major pain points with npm at the time, particularly around performance. It remains a popular option and v4 introduces a new ‘hardened mode’ to protect you from certain security issues and boasts an improved constraints engine and performance almost on par with pnpm.

Maël Nison

Monitor Your Node.js and Remix Application with AppSignal — With insights into the performance of Remix components like loaders and routing, AppSignal helps you refine your Remix application. This blog post will show you how to start monitoring your Remix application using AppSignal.

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LTS vs Current: A Reminder about Node's Different Release Lines — The big news last week was the release of Node v21 which becomes the new ‘current’ release line. On Mastodon, Emilia reminded me that the current release line is considered unstable, so v21 is not necessarily something every developer should rush to ‘upgrade’ to. She’s right, so I wanted to link to Node’s official Releases page which gives a more visual representation of how the releases relate.

Node.js Project

Adding Search to an Eleventy Site Without Client-Side JS — 11ty (a.k.a. Eleventy) is a fantastic Node-based static site generator.

Philip Renich

ES Module Imports in Node.js and the Browser — Just a quick example/handy recap of the basic setup.

Eli Bendersky

imgly/background-removal: Remove Backgrounds from Images — A system built by Imgly for removing backgrounds from images directly in Node or the browser (which means there’s a live demo) without relying on a third party service. It relies upon a trained model to do this, however, which ranges in size between 42MB and 168MB. Note: GPL licensed.

img․ly

Wireit: Extends npm/Yarn Scripts to Make Them Smarter and More Efficient — Working with npm run and not replacing it, Wireit extends your scripts with a variety of features like result caching, parallelization, watching/re-running on changes, and there’s a VS Code extension to help you write such enhanced scripts too.

Google

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npm-publish 3.0: GitHub Action to Publish to npm — Publish packages to npm automatically in GitHub Actions by updating the version number. v3.0 updates the action’s runtime to Node.js v20, now that GitHub Actions is transitioning from Node 16 to 20.

JavaScript Dev Tools

Official MongoDB Node.js Driver v6.2.0 — A small release, but BSON is now printed with color/syntax highlighting.

MongoDB, Inc.

Serverless Offline 8.5: Local Emulation of AWS Lambda and API Gateway — An interesting Serverless Framework-oriented alternative to AWS SAM Local that supports Node, Python, Go and Ruby runtimes.

David Hérault