How Booking.com Cut the Cost of Its Biggest Node.js Service by 38% — The online travel company moved its biggest React SSR service from pm2’s process-based cluster approach to Platformatic’s Watt and worker threads, then tuned load balancing and V8’s GC to get noteworthy gains.

Ilya Malyavin (Booking.com)

100+ Search Engines. One Simple API — Build with real-time search data from Google, YouTube, Amazon, and more. SerpApi delivers structured results in JSON and Markdown for AI agents and your next app. Skip scraping headaches. Start building with a simple API.

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Node.js 26.11.0 (Current) Released — A more substantial minor release than usual with a new --process-timeout flag that ends a process after a set time (even mid-busy-loop), node:sqlite gets virtual table support, Buffer.stringLength(), and Alpine (x64) is promoted to tier 2 support.

Antoine du Hamel

Optimizing Objects with null Prototypes — In V8, objects created with { __proto__: null } or Object.create(null) start off in a slower ‘dictionary mode’. Creating a plain object and nulling the prototype afterwards keeps it fast, as Matteo shows.

Matteo Collina

I Tested 11 HTTP Resilience Libraries — ffetch's creator tests how a variety of fetch wrappers (like Ky, ofetch, and Wretch) handle retries, timeouts and cancellation, and where those policies interact badly.

Gabor Koos

Find Auth Gaps in Your Node APIs Before Hackers Do — SonarQube Hunter Agent hunts intent-based vulnerabilities and drops verified findings right into your issue list.

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DOCX 9.9: Generate Word .docx Files from JavaScript — A comprehensive library for generating docx files. 9.8 recently added support for charts, shapes and watermarks, and 9.9 adds a way to lay out documents the way Word itself does. Homepage.

Dolan Miu

H3 v2: The UnJS HTTP Framework is Rebuilt on Web Standards — A minimal HTTP framework best known for powering Nitro and Nuxt’s server layer. v2 is a rewrite around standard Request and Response, so one app runs on Node, Bun, Deno and Workers, with URLPattern-style routing and (event, next) middleware. More info here.

Pooya Parsa

🤖 Klattsch: Retro 1980s Vocal Synthesis — 1980s-style phonemes to speech in a single npm package! It's very flexible, you can even make it sing, akin to HAL in 2001. Works in Node but you can also run it in the browser.

Crash United

Feedsmith 3.0: Fast Web Feed Parser and Generator — Parse and generate RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds from JavaScript, in both browsers and Node. v2.x users will find this migration guide useful.

Maciej Lamberski