#639 — September 3, 2026 |
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NestJS 12 Released with ESM-First Packages, Rspack and Vitest — The progressive framework gets its biggest release in years, going ESM-first (CJS is still an option), replacing webpack with Rspack, adding Standard Schema support for easy interop with Zod, Valibot and friends, plus structured logging, a brand new homepage, and more. Kamil Mysliwiec |
One Slow Query Starves Your Whole Connection Pool — A heavy analytics query holds a connection while everything else waits. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so those queries return fast, freeing the pool. Hypertables, compression, continuous aggregates. One database, not two. Get $1000 credit to start. Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor |
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📊 Bun 1.4 Now Passes 80% of Node's Test Suite — Bun 1.4's headline feature is a big jump in Node.js compatibility as part of its goal of being a "drop-in replacement". This page lets you see the project's progress and where Bun is strong and weak. Bun Project |
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Rewriting a Node.js Service in Go with AI Agents — A very 2026 tale of an overnight porting run, with a focus on doing agentic engineering well. Good takeaways on building a test harness first and the rollout experience. Edvinas Janusevicius (Checkly) |
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Your Trace Shows the Slow Span. Not the Exception — OTLP carries traces and logs, not errors. Sentry's OtlpIntegration connects both in one trace waterfall. Learn more about Sentry’s OTLP. Sentry sponsor |
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📄 Detecting SQLite Full Table Scans in Node.js – Did you know SQLite counts the rows scanned by statements and you can read it after the query runs? CodeSilva 📄 Workers vs Processes in Node Ishtmeet Singh |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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Drydock: Diff Your Jovi De Croock |
💡 You can get a quick taste without installing anything: this web-based diff viewer can compare two versions of an npm package file by file. |
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srvx 1.0: One Pooya Parsa |
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NVM for Windows 2.0: Node Version Manager for Windows — A modern Node workflow for Windows users with version pinning, native integrations, auto-install of missing versions, and more. v2 is a rewrite that introduces a lighter shim-based mechanism and no longer needs admin privileges. GitHub repo. Author Software Inc |
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Got 16.0: Built-In HTTP/2 and QUERY Method Support — The popular Node HTTP client now has a built-in HTTP/2 client, its own DNS cache, fewer dependencies, and support for the newly standardized Sindre Sorhus |
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SimpleWebAuthn 14.0: Now with Post-Quantum Passkeys — The passkeys library now verifies post-quantum ML-DSA passkeys and, on Node 24.7 and up, prefers ML-DSA-44 at registration by default. Matthew Miller |
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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem |
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