#613 — February 26, 2026 |
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AdonisJS v7 Released: 'Batteries-Included' Node.js Framework — A popular webapp framework that includes auth, ORM, queues, testing, etc. in a cohesive fashion. With v7 comes an all new web site, modernizations, OpenTelemetry integration, new starter kits to rapidly build new apps, barrel file generation, and end-to-end type safety. Harminder Virk |
💡 If you already use Adonis, there's a v6 to v7 upgrade guide. |
Clerk Kills Credential Stuffing with Client Trust — Valid password + new device + no MFA enabled = Clerk automatically requires a second factor. Attackers using leaked credentials always fail because they're always on a new device. Zero config. Free on every plan. Clerk sponsor |
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IN BRIEF:
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How to Prevent Path Traversal Attacks in Node — Path traversal attacks abuse specially crafted file paths to reach files an app didn't intend to expose. Luciano demonstrates a complete scenario, explores mitigations in depth, and includes a handy TLDR if you just want the essentials. Luciano Mammino |
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🤖 Getting Started with the Vercel AI SDK in Node — It provides a more abstract way to work with various AI API providers than jumping around different provider libraries. Valeri Karpov |
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Adding a Database Is Easier Than Removing One — Extend the one you have instead. TimescaleDB adds hypertables, 95% compression, and continuous aggregates. Try free. Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor |
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📄 Git's Magic Files – Useful guide to the many files that influence 📄 Why JavaScript Needs Structured Concurrency – And how Effection can provide it. Taras Mankovski 📄 How to Publish to npm from GitHub Actions – Using the new npm OIDC trusted publishing workflow. Gleb Bahmutov |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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numpy-ts: A NumPy Implementation for TypeScript — NumPy is a fundamental piece of the Python scientific computing ecosystem and well-entrenched in many use cases. JavaScript has some options in this regard (e.g. TensorFlow.js), but numpy-ts is an attempt to replace the NumPy experience as closely as possible (currently at 94% API coverage). There’s an online playground if you want to give it a quick spin. Nicolas Dupont |
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Edge: A JS-Like Template Engine for Node — A template engine that tries to stick as closely to JavaScript as possible, so you don’t have to learn a lot of new syntax for writing logic into your views (as you do with Nunjucks or Pug, say). Harminder Virk |
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bignumber.js 10.0: Library for Arbitrary-Precision Arithmetic — Works around limitations of JavaScript’s Michael Mclaughlin |
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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem |
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