--- title: "The NodeConf EU 2026 talks are online" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 644 published_at: "2026-10-15" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/644" --- Plus Deno joins Cloudflare, Node 26.12 and 24.22, and WebSocket servers benchmarked across Node, Bun and Deno. #​644 — October 15, 2026 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/644) 📝 We're taking next week off and will be back on Thursday, October 29. __ Peter Cooper, your editor Together with [![Warpbuild\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_1280,h_203/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:17/x690nt4ph483tprd4p1d.png)](https://www.warpbuild.com/start?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=h2-2026&utm_content=nodeweekly-2026-10-15) ![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/hjm5qc2crdbtnm3m0qft.jpg)](https://skia-canvas.org/) [Skia Canvas 4.0: A Fast Canvas Environment for Node](https://skia-canvas.org/) — Based on Google's Skia graphics engine, it produces results similar to Chrome's own canvas. 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WarpBuild sponsor ▶[The NodeConf EU 2026 Talks](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJJhUxJCR0c) — [NodeConf EU](https://nodeconf.eu/) took place in Italy a few weeks ago and the talks just dropped onto YouTube today, covering topics from Node's [new FFI features](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUVWkBjXGI&list=PLHJJhUxJCR0c&index=15) and [Emscripten and WebAssembly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNlqco5xd20&list=PLHJJhUxJCR0c&index=23) to [V8 heap management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYvGvWPcEYk&list=PLHJJhUxJCR0c&index=25) and [performance profiling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn78fDj2tWc&list=PLHJJhUxJCR0c&index=16). NodeConf EU / YouTube **IN BRIEF:** - [Deno is joining Cloudflare](https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare) to work on folding [celld](https://celld.dev/) into `workerd`. Deno itself will get a year of updates before, hopefully, becoming community-maintained. - [Node.js v26.12.0 (Current)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.12.0) has been released. [Configuration files](https://nodejs.org/docs/v26.12.0/api/cli.html#--config-filepath---config-file) are now stable as a way to define runtime, test, watch and permission settings. - [Node.js v24.22.0 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.22.0) has also been released and brings [`util.throttle`](https://nodejs.org/docs/v24.22.0/api/util.html#utilthrottlefn-limit-interval-options) and [`util.debounce`](https://nodejs.org/docs/v24.22.0/api/util.html#utildebouncefn-wait-options) to the LTS release. - 🔒 [Security releases of Node are expected next Wednesday, October 21](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2026-security-releases) across 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix at least one 'HIGH' severity issue. Also, Node 24 enters maintenance on October 20, and Node 26 becomes the active LTS line on October 28, the day Node 27's first alpha is expected. [Using _AWS Lambda Web Functions_ for Deploying Node Apps](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/exploring-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-building-web-applications/) — Amazon has launched [AWS Lambda Web Functions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-fast-consistent-web-app-performance-anywhere/), 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](https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/10/websocket-servers-in-javascript-node-js-bun-and-deno-in-2026/) — 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. 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Chris Arderne (Trigger.dev) 📄 [Fast Node.js is Mostly About Doing Less](https://www.thenodebook.com/blog/fast-nodejs-doing-less) Ishtmeet Singh (NodeBook) 📄 [The Disappointing Death of Deno](https://brettcodes.com/the-disappointing-death-of-deno/) Brett Chalupa 🛠 Code & Tools [TanStack Start 1.0: A Full-Stack Framework Reaches Stability](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-start-1-0) — 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](https://tanstack.com/start/latest/docs/framework/react/comparison). Tanner Linsley et al. [ImapKit: A Scriptable IMAP Server for Testing Email Clients](https://imapkit.com/) — 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](https://github.com/expressjs/express/releases/tag/v5.3.0) — 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](https://www.bram.us/2026/10/08/caniname-cli-tool-to-check-project-name-availability/) — It's also easy to add checks for other systems. Bramus van Damme - [fast-cli 6.0](https://github.com/sindresorhus/fast-cli) – Sindre Sorhus's tool to run download/upload speed tests. A neat way to quickly test speeds as you can run it with `npx -y fast-cli`. - [p-queue 10.0](https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-queue) – Promise queue with concurrency control and rate limiting. [v10 has zero dependencies](https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-queue/releases/tag/v10.0.0), becomes an `EventTarget`, and runs tasks in the caller's `AsyncLocalStorage`context. - [`actions/setup-node` 7.1](https://github.com/actions/setup-node/releases/tag/v7.1.0) – GitHub's official Action for installing Node in CI workflows. [It can now read the Node version](https://github.com/actions/setup-node/pull/1421) from a `mise.toml`file. - [Happy DOM 21.0](https://github.com/capricorn86/happy-dom) – JavaScript implementation of a browser without a GUI, popular for testing. [v21 disables external stylesheet and `iframe` loading by default](https://github.com/capricorn86/happy-dom/releases/tag/v21.0.0). - [p-map 7.1](https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-map) – Library to map over promises concurrently. [Now with `pMapSettled`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-map/releases/tag/v7.1.0), keyed variants for objects and `Map`s, and `pMapStop` to break out early. - [RandExp.js 0.6](https://github.com/fent/randexp.js) – Library to generate random strings that match a regex. - [node-oracledb 26.0](https://github.com/oracle/node-oracledb) – Oracle's official _Oracle Database_ driver. Overheard on Hacker News “Why reimplement Node? It works. Marginal performance or UX or security benefits are not enough.” ___ [Ryan Dahl](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023277) on the news that Deno is joining Cloudflare. **Got a link for us?** Reply and tell us. We can't include everything but we'll look at anything you send. _Thanks!_ --- **Sponsorship:** Email `[kristina@cooperpress.com](mailto:kristina@cooperpress.com)` for details. --- Published by Cooper Press Ltd. 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