Node.js 27 Alpha: The First Release Under Node's New Schedule — Under Node's new release model, each major release spends six months in alpha before stable release — so v27's final is due next April. Alphas are built from main with breaking changes, and are meant for library authors / testing rather than prod.

Stop Babysitting Chats. Run Your Own Software Factory — A chat per agent, each one waiting on you. CodeAF does the middle: it splits the work, runs the parts in parallel, tests what came back, merges what passed and asks only when it must. #1 of ten coding harnesses on DeepSWE, at the lowest cost per fix.

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Notable V8 Changes from Node.js 26 to 27 — Further to the Node 27 updates above, here's a fantastic roundup of what new things V8 15.6 brings to the table for Node users. It's a big update as Node 26 uses V8 14.6.

Joyee Cheung

'Nothing Installs at Our Company Until It's a Week Old' — Bruno put a proxy between his company and npm that refuses releases under seven days old. Twelve days on, he shares the numbers, the lockfiles it broke, and some practical advice if you want to do it yourself.

Bruno Jurković

Signing and Attestations Across Package Registries — A registry-by-registry survey of what npm, PyPI, RubyGems, crates.io, Go and others sign, which produce provenance attestations, and which offer trusted publishing, concluding with a handy comparison table.

Andrew Nesbitt

Parcel 3 Alpha: The Bundler Now Rewritten in Rust — Parcel's core is now a standalone Rust binary, with builds up to 100x faster on a large monorepo as a result. Plugins can be written in Rust, Go, Swift or C, or in JS/TS on a custom runtime, and there's HMR for Node targets.

Devon Govett

Wiki.js 3: A Modern Wiki App Built on Node — A mature project packed with features and an ecosystem of modules to integrate with other systems. Note that it's AGPL licensed. GitHub repo.

Requarks

Should You Use a Log or a Metric? — Learn when to reach for a log and when for a metric, with one signup handler as the example. Read the post.

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Postgres.js 4.0: A Ground-Up Rewrite of the Popular Postgres Client — The public API is largely unchanged, but the rewrite gains a scheduler that stops fast queries waiting behind slow ones, AbortSignal support, and more. It's ESM-only and param typing has changed, so the upgrade guide is a must-read for users.

Rasmus Porsager

NestJS 12.3: A Native node:http Platform Adapter — The server framework has long sat on top of Express or Fastify. A third adapter now runs on node:http, with Express-style request helpers but no Express dependency.

NestJS

jsdom 31.0: A New CSS Engine and a Switch to @napi-rs/canvas — The pure-JS DOM behind countless test suites gains an integrated CSS implementation (supporting cascade layers, nesting, and @scope), swaps canvas for @napi-rs/canvas, and pauses parsing at blocking scripts.

Domenic Denicola et al.

Vitest 5.1: Run Only the Tests Your Last Change Affected — An experimental --since-last-run flag records which files each test loaded and reruns only what your edits touched, with no Git involved.

Vitest Team

Nitro v3 Reaches Release Candidate — The server toolkit under Nuxt and friends gets a frozen API, an install a fraction of v2's size, Vitest-based route testing, and an experimental nitro serve that runs your source in production with no build step.

Pooya Parsa (UnJS)