--- title: "The productivity benefits from type stripping" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 591 published_at: "2025-08-26" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/591" --- Plus ImageJS 1.0, playing Minecraft with Node and LLMs, and a visual introduction to big O notation. | #​591 — August 26, 2025 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/591) 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/next-js-v4/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=nodeweekly&utm_content=nextjsv4) ![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/xxkigiqvxqftttmdmtce.jpg)](https://blog.calm.com/engineering/how-we-migrated-our-rushjs-monorepo-to-node-type-stripping) [How We Migrated Our Rush.js Monorepo to Node Type Stripping](https://blog.calm.com/engineering/how-we-migrated-our-rushjs-monorepo-to-node-type-stripping) — Since v23.6 (and in LTS since [v22.18.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v22.18.0)), Node has supported running (most) TypeScript code by [stripping the types out](https://nodejs.org/en/learn/typescript/run-natively) first. The Calm team was excited about the potential for improving productivity and DX, and set a migration in process. Here’s a look at the challenges encountered and what the end results were. Stuart Dotson (Calm) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/7adfde67.jpg)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/next-js-v4/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=nodeweekly&utm_content=nextjsv4) [Next.js Fundamentals for Modern Web Apps](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/next-js-v4/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=nodeweekly&utm_content=nextjsv4) — Gain hands on experience with server actions, caching, authentication, and performance. 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The `semver` library used in npm, yarn and pnpm can be made around 33x faster.”_ Marvin Hagemeister **IN BRIEF:** - Bun 1.3 is just around the corner, but [Bun v1.2.1 has just been released](https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.2.21) with highlights including `Bun.SQL`, a first-class database client supporting MySQL, SQLite and Postgres, and a [500x faster `postMessage(string)` function.](https://bun.com/blog/how-we-made-postMessage-string-500x-faster) - In ESLint v9.34.0, ESLint has [added support for multithreaded linting](https://eslint.org/blog/2025/08/multithread-linting/) which offers the potential for huge speedups on large projects. - Vercel Functions running on the Node.js runtime [now support `fetch` web handlers.](https://vercel.com/changelog/node-js-vercel-functions-now-support-fetch-web-handlers) - [Next.js 15.5 was released](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-15-5) with stable support for Node.js middleware runtime. [Eliminating JavaScript Cold Starts on AWS Lambda](https://goose.icu/lambda/) — [Porffor](https://porffor.dev/) is an _ahead-of-time_ JavaScript compiler which gives the benefit of rapid process launch times (i.e. under a millisecond). This is more a taste of the future, and something to experiment with, rather than to deploy into production ASAP. Oliver Medhurst 📄 [Understanding `Promise.any()`: When One Success is Enough](https://allthingssmitty.com/2025/08/25/understanding-promise-any-when-one-success-is-enough/) – Given multiple promises, resolve as soon as just one fulfills. Matt Smith 📄 [Unit Formatting with Intl in JavaScript](https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/08/22/unit-formatting-with-intl-in-javascript) Raymond Camden 📄 [Promises from the Ground Up](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/javascript/promises/) – Aimed at beginner-to-intermediate JS developers. 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The video in the README is cool, showing how Claude and this server can turn a photo of the White House into an in-world creation. Yuniko Software - [Repomix 1.4](https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix/releases/tag/v1.4.0) – Pack an entire repository into a single, LLM-friendly file. v1.4 adds the ability to integrate commit history. - [pg-promise 12.0](https://github.com/vitaly-t/pg-promise/releases/tag/12.0.0) – Postgres interface for Node. Support for custom promises is now gone, now it's _"ES6 Promise all the way"_. - 🌈 [yoctocolors 2.1.2](https://github.com/sindresorhus/yoctocolors) – Tiny terminal text coloring library. A smaller alternative to[Chalk](https://github.com/chalk/chalk) from the same creator. - [Faker 10.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v10.0.0) – Generate fabricated data to your heart's content. Now ESM only. - [Sidequest.js 1.6](https://sidequestjs.com/) – Modern background job processor for Node apps. - 🔒 [Secretlint 11.2](https://github.com/secretlint/secretlint/releases/tag/v11.2.0) – Tool to prevent committing credentials/secrets. - 🤖 [OpenAI Node 5.15](https://github.com/openai/openai-node/releases/tag/v5.15.0) – The official Node library for OpenAI's API. - [InversifyJS 7.9](https://github.com/inversify/InversifyJS/releases/tag/v7.9.0) – Lightweight inversion of control container. - [Node-SSH 1.17](https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2) – Pure JS SSH2 client and server modules. - [pnpm 10.15](https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/10.15) – Fast, space efficient package manager. - [Undici 7.15](https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v7.15.0) – Node's powerful HTTP client library. 📰 Classifieds ⚠️ [The Hidden Cost of Async Context in Node.js](https://blog.platformatic.dev/the-hidden-cost-of-context) — discover the hidden toll behind rebuilding the same logic across your app. --- 😁 Sub-ms latency means happier users. Redis 8.2 is 91% faster than 7.2 and is a drop-in upgrade. [Get started for free](https://redis.io/lp/get-started2/?utm_source=cooper-press&utm_medium=cpa&utm_campaign=2025-08-app_performance-node-weekly-1&utm_content=cloud_-_redis_cloud_users). 📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader landscape: [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/j1o4q0yewjedmfq6tazn.jpg)](https://samwho.dev/big-o/) - Sam Rose has put together [a fantastic illustrated introduction to Big O notation](https://samwho.dev/big-o/), along with JavaScript examples. If you've ever wondered what O(1), O(log n), etc. mean, this is a great primer. - [Minification Benchmarks](https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks) is a frequently updated benchmark of different JavaScript minifiers, with [cminify](https://codeberg.org/Jumping-Beaver/cminify) being the newest addition. - The WebKit team [introduces the CSS `random()` function](https://webkit.org/blog/17285/rolling-the-dice-with-css-random/), now in Safari Technology Preview, and coming to CSS more generally (in some form or another) later on. - If you use AWS at all, [this list of 'AWS stuff you think you know that's now wrong'](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2025-the-stuff-you-think-you-know-thats-now-wrong/) from Corey Quinn is an eye-opener. - [An illustrated guide to OAuth.](https://www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-oauth) **P.S.** We're taking next week off, so we'll be back in two weeks on September 9. **Got a link for us?** Reply and tell us. 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