--- title: "2025 is going to be a bold year for Express.js" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 562 published_at: "2025-01-14" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/562" --- Plus unflagged TypeScript in Node has now arrived. | #​562 — January 14, 2025 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/562) Together with [![Frontend Masters logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_300,h_70/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:5/nk0tfdvalivacz8rw7rt.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/ai-agents/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=nodeweekly&utm_content=aiagents) ![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/jz2qnjl1zcz4xi2n4ywn.jpg)](https://expressjs.com/2025/01/09/rewind-2024-triumphs-and-2025-vision.html) [A New Chapter for Express.js](https://expressjs.com/2025/01/09/rewind-2024-triumphs-and-2025-vision.html) — 2024 saw the still-extremely-popular [Express](https://expressjs.com/) project awaken from a slumber, of sorts, with work being made to update things to modern standards, [a security audit](https://expressjs.com/2024/10/22/security-audit-milestone-achievement.html), and the [release of Express v5.](https://expressjs.com/2024/10/15/v5-release.html) Here, the team explains what’s been going on behind the scenes to get Express back on the tracks, as well as a **“bold vision for 2025.”** Express Technical Committee [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/0b57f4f6.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/ai-agents/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=nodeweekly&utm_content=aiagents) [How to Create Your Own AI Agent](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/ai-agents/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=nodeweekly&utm_content=aiagents) — Join Scott Moss for this video course exploring how to build an AI agent from scratch — covering LLM options, transformers, token limits, AI memory, function calling, agent loops, prompting, and much more. Frontend Masters sponsor [Node v23.6.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v23.6.0) — In last week’s issue, we said Node 23.6 was imminent, and it came out a few hours later ;-) Along with the usual dependency updates and bug fixes, the big news is type stripping is now enabled by default, enabling that `node yourapp.ts` magic, described in more detail below.. Marco Ippolito [Node’s New Built-in Support for TypeScript Explained](https://2ality.com/2025/01/nodejs-strip-type.html) — [Node.js v23.6.0 (Current)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v23.6.0) (above) makes Node’s new type-stripping features work by default. Dr. Axel digs into how it works and what the limitations are. A handy primer. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer **IN BRIEF:** - Ecma International has a new technical committee: [TC55 - Web Interoperable Server Runtimes.](https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/collaborating-across-w3c-and-ecma-for-web-interoperable-server-runtimes-through-wintertc/) It takes over from the former WinterCG group as a forum for working on ways for server-side JS runtimes (e.g. Node, Deno, Bun) to better interoperate and align their APIs. - Popular Node.js-powered static site generator [Eleventy (11ty) takes a look back at what happened in 2024.](https://www.11ty.dev/blog/review-2024/) - [Node v22.13.0 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v22.13.0) was released with the [permission model](https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) becoming stable. - The Electron project is [moving its ecosystem over to Node 22.](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/ecosystem-node-22) [Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal? 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[Citizen: A Node.js MVC Web Application Framework](https://github.com/jaysylvester/citizen) — Comes with all the usual helpful stuff out of the box: routing, serving, caching, session management, even hot module replacement. It’s currently a lightly updated (though complete) project, but it shows a lot of promise and the author is keen for bug reports and feature requests. Jay Sylvester [PostalMime: Email Parser for Browser Environments](https://github.com/postalsys/postal-mime) — An email parsing library happy in most JS runtimes, including Node. Takes the raw source of emails and parses them into their constituent parts. Postal Systems [Simple Redis Mutex: Simple Distributed Locking using Redis](https://github.com/AmrSaber/simple-redis-mutex) Amr Saber - [Puppeteer 24.0](https://pptr.dev/) – Popular high level API to control Chrome or Firefox. - [AWS JWT Verify 5.0](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-jwt-verify) – Verify JWTs signed by Amazon Cognito and any OIDC-compatible IDP. [v5.0](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-jwt-verify/releases/tag/v5.0.0) adds support for ECDSA and EdDSA algorithms. - 🤖 [node-llama-cpp 3.4](https://github.com/withcatai/node-llama-cpp) – Run LLMs locally with bindings to`llama.cpp`. - [jsdom 26.0](https://github.com/jsdom/jsdom) – Pure JS implementation of web standards for Node. - [node-pg-migrate 7.9](https://github.com/salsita/node-pg-migrate) – Postgres migration management from Node. - [Mineflayer 4.25](https://github.com/PrismarineJS/mineflayer) – Create Minecraft bots in JavaScript. - [Octokit.js 4.1](https://github.com/octokit/octokit.js) – 'Batteries-included' GitHub SDK. - [Strapi 5.7](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releases/tag/v5.7.0) – Popular Node.js headless CMS. - [ESLint 9.18.0](https://eslint.org/blog/2025/01/eslint-v9.18.0-released/) 📰 Classifieds Protect your SaaS app with advanced device fingerprinting from [WorkOS Radar](https://workos.com/radar?utm_source=cpnode&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q12025). Stop fake signups, free tier abuse, bot attacks and brute force attempts today. --- 🚀 Start the year with fewer flakes, faster merges, and less frustration. Don’t let flaky tests disrupt CI — [▶️ watch our recorded live session here.](https://sentry.io/resources/flaky-test-workshop/?utm_medium=paid-community&utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_campaign=fy25q4-codecov-workshop&utm_content=codecov-workshop-register) 📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript A quick roundup of some of other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you've missed them: - [The 2024 JavaScript Rising Stars](https://risingstars.js.org/2024/en) – Michael Rambeau’s annual analysis of which JavaScript projects fared best on GitHub over the past year. - Last week we learnt that [Oracle isn't giving up without a fight](https://x.com/deno_land/status/1876728474666217739) in Deno's pursuit to get Oracle's trademark on 'JavaScript' withdrawn. - [TypeScript without Build Tools](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/typescript-without-build-tools/) – It's not just Node that can now work with TypeScript without a build process in the mix. Chris Coyier looks at how other projects handle it. - [Electrobun](https://electrobun.dev/) – An interesting attempt at a new Electron-style solution for building desktop apps with JavaScript, but powered by [Bun.](https://bun.sh/) It's still early days, however. **Got a link for us?** Reply and tell us. We can't include everything but we'll look at anything you send. _Thanks!_ --- **Sponsorship:** Email `[kristina@cooperpress.com](mailto:kristina@cooperpress.com)` for details. --- Published by Cooper Press Ltd. Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom [Cancel your subscription](https://nodeweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*) or [change your address](https://nodeweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*).