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5. TypeSpec: A TypeScript-Inspired Way to Define APIs — A language for concisely describing cloud service APIs and generating other API description languages (e.g. OpenAPI), client and service code, docs, etc. v0.63 has just been released, by the way.

3. 10 Modern Node.js Runtime Features to Start Using in 2024 — It's not just Bun and Deno adding new features by the dozen over the past couple of years, there's plenty of new stuff in Node too. How many did you use in 2024?

8. Announcing AdonisJS v6 — A TypeScript-first backend Web framework with amazing documentation and packed with features out the box. v6 was a huge step forward that moved to using ESM by default and remains the latest major version, despite being released in January.

1. A Guide to Reading and Writing Node.js Streams — I'm not surprised to see this as our most popular link of the year. While streams are a long standing Node feature, they're commonly misunderstood, and Matteo did a good job of covering their benefits, use cases, and more.

7. The Node.js Best Practices List: 2024 Edition — An in-depth guide for Node developers that we link to most years. Divided into eight sections and updated regularly, it digs into areas from error handling and code style to Docker and security practices.

6. zx v8.0: Google's Way to Write Shell Scripts with Node — A long standing way to make shell scripting a more pleasant experience with Node. zx provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults. v8.0 made zx 20x smaller, faster, makes it easier to kill processes, pass input to commands, and more. It remains the latest major version, with v8.2.4 landing...

Node v23.4.0 (Current) Released — There are new --trace-env, --trace-env-js-stack and --trace-env-native-stack options to track environment variable use by a script. Also assert.partialDeepStrictEqual has been added as a way to more quickly assert certain properties are present in an object – you don’t have to supply them all.

Complete Intro to React v9: New Project, Modern Stack — Join Brian Holt in building a pizza delivery app from scratch. Master hooks, TanStack Router, testing, and React 19 features in this comprehensive guide to modern React development. No prior React experience needed.

The State of Node.js Performance in 2024 — A thorough exploration (and benchmark) of recent performance advancements made in Node.js. The enhancements between Node 18 and 20 up to version 22 might surprise you - it’s clear the team has put a lot of work into this area.

tldts: Extract Domain Names, Subdomains and Suffixes from URLs — A ‘blazing fast’ library for extracting hostnames, domains, public suffixes, and more from URLs, with full Unicode/IDA support, type definitions, and more.

Node.js Delivers First LTS with require(esm) Enabled — It’s a modest milestone, but Node v22.12.0 (LTS) has been released and marks Node’s first LTS release with non-flagged support for loading native ES modules with require(). It’s still experimental, though, and you’re encouraged to send in feedback and bug reports.

Node's Corepack: Version Control for Package Managers — A quick intro to a commonly misunderstood (and mildly contentious) part of the modern Node distribution: Corepack. It’s a (still) experimental tool for managing package managers.

Implementing Filtered Semantic Search Using pgvector and JS — If you need something more sophisticated than keyword search, a semantic approach based upon the meanings of words/queries compared using vector embeddings offers a big step up. Luckily, there are some Postgres extensions that make building such things quite simple..

🖼️ wasm-vips: It's libvips, Compiled to WebAssembly — libvips is a popular, highly efficient image processing library written in C. You can use it via Sharp in Node.js, but this offers a more isomorphic route for use in Node, Deno, and modern browsers by way of WebAssembly. (There's a nifty online demo here.)

Build Fully Functional Apps in Minutes, Not Months — Create, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps with Bolt.

Undici v7.1.0: Now with Stable HTTP/2 Support — Last week we featured the latest major v7 version of Node’s powerful HTTP/1.1 client. Now, after a little discussion, they’re marking Undici’s HTTP/2 support stable too (notes on HTTP/2 support in the docs).

Pelias 4.0: A Modular, Stand-Alone 'Coarse' Geocoder — Given an address or place name this will come up with geographic coordinates, and vice versa. In terms of finding a location, it’s not super accurate (hence the ‘coarse’) but it may be acceptable for your use case. Demo here.

node-qrcode: Generate QR Codes in Node — The ubiquitous 2D barcodes that can store arbitrary data (like URLs).

❤️ Postgres — You need a database provider that loves Postgres as much as you do. We'll take care of all the hassle - monitoring, backups, HA, disaster recovery so you don't have to. Want amazing support? We'll be there when you have questions.

Oniguruma-to-ES: Convert Patterns from the Oniguruma Regex Engine to Native JS — Oniguruma is a powerful regex engine used by Ruby, TextMate, and other projects. This could be useful if you need to share regexes between Ruby, TextMate grammars, and JavaScript, say. There’s a demo.

png2embeddedjson: Convert PNGs to Base64-Encoded RGB565 in JSON — Niche, but has utility in embedding images directly into apps used on microcontrollers to drive small RGB displays. Both a library and CLI tool.

Undici v7: The Modern HTTP Client Library for Node — A major release for a fundamental Node.js project. This release brings RFC-9111-compliant client-side HTTP caching, stricter fetch() spec compliance, WebSocketStream, and a new way to completely customize the lifecycle of requests.

Zero Ops Apache Kafka Replication and Data Mirroring — Moving to WarpStream to reduce your Kafka costs by 80+% and simplify ops is easy with 1:1 replication provided by Orbit.

Prisma 6: Better Performance, More Flexibility and Type-Safe SQL — Prisma is a popular, powerful ORM for Node.js and TypeScript apps that takes pride in doing things a little differently to most. You can now use it easily with serverless database platforms like PlanetScale and Neon, as well as in edge function platforms like Cloudflare Workers. D1 and Turso are now supported, and you...