Skia Canvas 4.0: A Fast Canvas Environment for Node — Based on Google's Skia graphics engine, it produces results similar to Chrome's own canvas. GPU accelerated and can render images, paths, fonts, shapes, etc. both to static images and live in a native window. v4.0 is faster, lighter, and adds native PDF loading. GitHub repo.

Christian Swinehart

Cut Your GitHub Actions Times and Costs in Half — Faster Node builds with better hardware, unlimited concurrency, no queueing delays, and no commitments. Change one line and get started with $50 in free credits using code START50.

WarpBuild sponsor

Using AWS Lambda Web Functions for Deploying Node Apps — Amazon has launched AWS Lambda Web Functions, a way to run standard HTTP apps (using Express, Hono, Fastify, etc.) on Lambda without needing to rewrite your code around an event handler.

Wood, Wendt, and Karak (Amazon)

📊 WebSocket Servers in JavaScript: Node.js vs Bun vs Deno — It's great to see a win for Node 26 with uWebSockets.js here, with its results getting close to C's low levels of latency, ahead of Bun and Deno.

Daniel Lemire

Up to 10x Faster Postgres for I/O-Heavy Workloads — Managed Postgres on local NVMe, natively integrated with ClickHouse for real-time analytics.

ClickHouse Managed Postgres sponsor

TanStack Start 1.0: A Full-Stack Framework Reaches Stability — The increasingly popular full-stack framework for React and Solid goes stable, bringing typed server functions and streaming SSR to apps deployed on Node, Bun, Cloudflare Workers and other targets. Here's how it compares to Next.js.

Tanner Linsley et al.

ImapKit: A Scriptable IMAP Server for Testing Email Clients — An embeddable IMAP server for testing mail clients, with in-memory mailboxes, extensions for numerous IMAP features, and scripted 'faults' to test robustness. Runs inside your tests or can be driven from other languages via a REST API.

Postal Systems OÜ

⭐ Express 5.3 Released — No big new features, but a large number of bug fixes and minor improvements, including to security.

Express.js Team

caniname: CLI Tool to Check Project Name Availability on Netlify and npm — It's also easy to add checks for other systems.

Bramus van Damme