--- title: "Another way to package Node apps into small executables" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 574 published_at: "2025-04-15" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/574" --- Plus the high performance combination of Fastify, React and Vite. | #​574 — April 15, 2025 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/574) Together with [![Sentry logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_350,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/xdmchdxkka938lxfr86f.png)](https://sentry.io/resources/find-fix-test/?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=paid-community&utm_campaign=general-fy26q1-bidemo&utm_content=newsletter-nodedemo-seehow) ![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/icqzhvv69adcouhj9dam.jpg)](https://hire.jonasgalvez.com.br/2025/apr/9/fastify-speed/) [Fastify + React – 7x Faster than Next.js?](https://hire.jonasgalvez.com.br/2025/apr/9/fastify-speed/) — Node’s [Fastify](https://fastify.dev/) framework has a mature plugin for Vite integration ([explained in detail here](https://blog.platformatic.dev/exploring-react-ssr-with-fastify)), including [@fastify/react](https://github.com/fastify/fastify-vite/releases/tag/react-v1.0.0) which [just hit version 1.0](https://github.com/fastify/fastify-vite/releases/tag/react-v1.0.0) and makes it easy to create fast, featureful (though obviously less so than Next.js) React apps atop Fastify. 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Note, however, _"Lexe is not a drop-in replacement for Node.js. It only supports a subset of Node.js APIs."_ Ray-D-Song [Prisma ORM 6.6.0 Released](https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-orm-6-6-0-esm-support-d1-migrations-and-prisma-mcp-server) — Introduces a new `prisma-client` generator that’s more flexible and comes with ESM support, plus a preview of an MCP server to let AI agents and tools manage Postgres. Nikolas Burk [Chrono 2.8: A Natural Language Date Parser](https://github.com/wanasit/chrono) — Give it a string like “today”, “last Friday”, “2 weeks from now”, or even an entire date and time, and it’ll come up with a date object to suit. Wanasit Tanakitrungruang - 🤖 [openai-node 4.94](https://github.com/openai/openai-node) – The official Node library for OpenAI's API adds support for their newest API-only [GPT 4.1 models.](https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/) - 🕒 [Spacetime 7.9](https://github.com/spencermountain/spacetime) – Lightweight timezone library. Now supporting formatting times [in SQL ISO format.](https://github.com/spencermountain/spacetime/issues/437) - [xero-node 11.0](https://github.com/XeroAPI/xero-node) – Node SDK for the popular _Xero_ accounting system. - [Tesseract.js 6.0.1](https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js) – Pure JS OCR for 100+ languages. - [Javet 4.1.2](https://github.com/caoccao/Javet) – Embed Node.js and V8 into Java. 📰 Classifieds 📥 [The Node.js Book for Enterprise is here](https://www.platformatichq.com/reports/the-node-book): Years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies build & scale their Node apps, distilled into one book by Matteo Collina & Platformatic. --- 🤖 Tonkotsu makes you the tech lead for a team of AI agents and just started a free early access program for JS/TS developers. [Sign up today](https://www.tonkotsu.ai). 📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you've missed them: - Matt Smith showed off a [better way to apply default values using nullish coalescing with `??`](https://allthingssmitty.com/2025/04/10/mastering-default-values-in-javascript-with-the-nullish-coalescing-operator/) rather than using`||`. - 🤖 Last week, Google unveiled [Firebase Studio](https://firebase.studio/), an online agentic AI development environment somewhat akin to things you might have seen from v0, Cursor or Lovable. - ☁️ Cloudflare had a busy time with its 'Developer Week' last week: there's now an easy way to [deploy Next.js apps to Cloudflare Workers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/deploying-nextjs-apps-to-cloudflare-workers-with-the-opennext-adapter/), you can add a ['deploy to Workers' button](https://blog.cloudflare.com/deploy-workers-applications-in-seconds/) to your git repos, you can now [deploy an entire frontend, backend, and database](https://blog.cloudflare.com/full-stack-development-on-cloudflare-workers/) (supporting React Router, Astro, Vue.js, Svelte and more) in one Worker, and [a lot more.](https://blog.cloudflare.com/developer-week-2025-wrap-up/) **Got a link for us?** Reply and tell us. 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