Node.js v25.2.1 (Current) Released (and 25.2.0 with Type Stripping Marked 'Stable') — v25.2.0 was released hours after we hit send last week (often the way!) and marked type stripping as stable, meaning all major server-side runtimes now support TypeScript officially (at least in type-stripping form). v25.2.1, on the other hand, reverts a spec-compliance issue where localStorage access can throw an exception (which will be pushed back to v26).

Antoine du Hamel

Real-Time Redis Visibility for Node Apps — Memetria K/V turns Redis metrics into insight. Track memory growth, large keys, and latency in real time — all from a dashboard designed for Node.js developers running Redis OSS or Valkey at scale.

Memetria sponsor

Comparing Electron vs. Tauri for Building and Distributing a Desktop App — A team working on an open-source desktop app built using JavaScript and Electron took a look into the Rust-based Tauri instead, with mixed, but mostly positive, results (while still being able to write their app mostly in JavaScript).

Eric Richardson

V8's Garbage Collector Developments in Recent Years — Andy, who’s worked on both V8 and JavaScriptCore in the past, reviews the major developments in the V8 engine’s garbage collector over the past couple of years. Very technical, but a valuable slice of history.

Andy Wingo

Automated NPM Secret Rotation in GitHub Actions — If you’ve built a system to automatically publish to npm, you may have had to change things due to this month’s npm security changes. Here’s a way to keep things ticking if you’re not ready to switch to trusted publishing.

Michael Heap

Inquirer.js 13.0: A Collection of Common Interactive CLI Controls — Want to ask your users questions? Select from predefined options? Enter a password? Check boxes? Inquirer is a good way to do that. v13 is a ‘modernization’ of the codebase which is now ESM only (no CommonJS) and removes a variety of deprecations. Yoctocolors also gets dropped for Node’s own styleText.

Simon Boudrias

Build a JSON-to-PDF Workflow for Your App — Learn how to generate PDFs programmatically — ideal for quotes, receipts, or contracts. No setup headaches.

Foxit Software sponsor

Globby 16.0: User-Friendly Glob Matching — Give it an array of globs and it returns an array of matching paths. It supports negations (including negation-only patterns in v16) and can also respect .gitignore files (and, new in v16, .gitignore files in parent directories too).

Sindre Sorhus

node-libcurl 5.0: libcurl Bindings for Node — libcurl is a very powerful and established way to fetch data from URLs across numerous protocols (HTTP, IMAP, SCP, SFTP, LDAP etc.) v5.0 upgrades to libcurl 8.17.0 and pre-built binaries now have HTTP/3 support enabled across all platforms.

Jonathan Cardoso Machado

📊 Ackee 3.5: A Self-Hosted, Node-Based Web Analytics System — Last week we mentioned Umami but Ackee is another long standing option powered by Node for self-hosted Web analytics. GitHub repo.

Tobias Reich

Marked.js 17.0: A Fast Markdown Parser and Compiler — A low level Markdown compiler built for speed and available as a client-side library, server-side library, and even a CLI.

Christopher Jeffrey