Node Moves to Enable Temporal By Default — The Temporal API, designed to modernize JavaScript’s date/time handling, reached stage 4 last month. Node was waiting on V8 to make it enabled by default, which happened in V8 14.4, and the wheels are now in motion for an eventual release in Node 26.

Richard Lau

Node.js 24.15.0 (LTS) Released — The LTS release of Node gets a few goodies from v25 including require(esm) and the module compile cache being marked as stable, as well as --max-heap-size and OpenSSL 4.0 build support.

Antoine du Hamel

Stop Juggling 5 Tools to Monitor One Node App — Errors, performance, logs, uptime, host metrics — AppSignal handles all of it for your Node.js stack. Auto-instruments Express, Koa, Prisma, and BullMQ out of the box. Request-based pricing, unlimited seats. Free 30-day trial, no credit card.

AppSignal sponsor

The OWASP NPM Security Best Practices Cheat Sheet — A long-standing resource that continues to be updated and remains a useful checklist. Recent updates tackle disabling lifecycle scripts, typosquatting, trusted publishing, and dependency confusion.

OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

Uses for Nested Promises — James revisits 2013's Promises/A+ monads debate and has changed his mind, thanks to a real concurrency problem he ran into. Demanding but rewarding.

James Coglan

🦠 Pompelmi 1.0: Antivirus File Scanning from Node — A wrapper for ClamAV, originally designed for scanning for malicious uploads in Node apps. It’s standalone and no daemons are required as it spawns ClamAV as-needed. v1.0 landed a few days ago as its first stable release. GitHub repo.

pompelmi contributors

📄 officeParser: A Library to Parse Common Office-Related Formats — Covers formats like docx, pptx, xlsx, odt and others used by tools like Microsoft Office and LibreOffice. GitHub repo.

Harsh Ankur

You Already Have Postgres. Why Not Make It Handle Analytics? — TimescaleDB adds hypertables, 95% compression, and continuous aggregates. No second database, no pipeline. Try for free.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

📈 Micro-ML: A Toolkit of Forecasting and Clustering Algorithms — A ~56KB WASM-powered library with algorithms for regression and smoothing. Cluster points, classify data, or predict the next value in a series without dragging in TensorFlow.js.

Adam Perliński

🔊 Audio: High-Level Audio Manipulation in Node — Take audio, trim it, normalize loudness, add fading, detect notes/chords, perform filtering, and more. No ffmpeg needed. From the same creators as the web-audio-api project featured last week.

audiojs project

x-win: Inspect Open and Active Windows from Node — Obtain the position, size, app icon, and title of windows open on macOS, Linux, and Windows, as well as the process info and memory usage of their underlying processes.

Hocine Benkhadra