What’s Actually New in JavaScript (And What’s Coming Next) — If you don’t read the specs or endless posts about new language features, this is a great way to catch up. Most of the features are supported in Node, like Promise.try, Set union/intersection/difference, Array.fromAsync, and using, with others soon to land, like Math.sumPrecise and Map.getOrInsert (in Node 26).

Neciu Dan

p99 Is 40ms. Until the Analytics Query Hits — Analytics queries shouldn't blow your latency budget. A second database adds pipelines, sync lag, and drift. TimescaleDB extends Postgres for fast analytics on live data. Hypertables, 95% compression, continuous aggregates. Start building for free.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

Node 26.0 Slips to May 5: Temporal Trips Over Rosetta 2 — Node 26.0 (Current), complete with the Temporal API enabled by default, was expected this Tuesday, but a macOS-related problem broke the build. A fix is in the pipeline, and 26.0 RC 2 was created, so you can still try 26.0 out.

The Node.js Project

portless: Replace Port Numbers with Stable, Named Local URLs — If you’d rather see something like https://myapp.localhost than http://localhost:3000 this is for you. It’s built on Node, and now includes new features for Tailscale users.

Vercel Labs

Stop Guessing Where Your Next.js App Broke [Workshop] — Trace Next.js errors back to their source across client and Node runtimes. Free workshop, register today.

Sentry sponsor

pnpm 11.0 Released — A big release. The most promising feature is a new SQLite-backed package index, but it also adds native package publishing tooling, global installs are isolated, and supply-chain protection is on by default.

Zoltan Kochan

🍋 Fresh 2.3: The Deno-Native Full-Stack Framework — Deno's full-stack web framework (explained here) gains first-class WebSocket support, no longer ships any JavaScript for pages that don’t need it, and makes using the View Transitions API a snap with a single attribute in your views.

Bartek Iwańczuk (Deno)

Honker: Get Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics in SQLite — Brings NOTIFY/LISTEN event delivery to SQLite without a daemon. The honker-node package brings it to Node.js and here's how to use it.

Russell Romney