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A Guide to Reading and Writing Node.js Streams — A post from the creator of Fastify (and a Node.js TSC member) is always a treat. Matteo reminds us of the benefits of using Node’s powerful streaming data features, where they make sense, and how to handle back-pressure and error management.

Work Progresses on node:sqlite — Last week, we featured efforts to include SQLite and a client library into the Node distribution. Things continue to progress quickly, with the feature proposed for inclusion in the forthcoming Node v22.5. You can see how it’ll work in this CodeSandbox example.

NPM Supply Chain Security: Why We Can Be Optimistic About the Future — We frequently link to stories about misuses of npm to distribute malware, nefarious packages, and more, but Robat reflects on just how much things are improving with 2FA, package provenance, and community efforts.

Bring StackBlitz to Work — In our upcoming livestream, we’ll cover the best ways to build and share prototypes and quickly reproduce bugs.

Micro Agent: An AI Agent That Writes Code for You — Sure, you can ask ChatGPT, Copilot or Claude to write code for you, but you know how that can sometimes turn out.. Is there a better way? Micro Agent is a Node-based tool that takes the approach of writing a test case first and then iterates upon a solution until the tests pass.

Behind the Code: A Discussion with Backend Experts — July 16, join experts from Node.js, Laravel, Prisma & Supabase to discuss backend trends, challenges, and community.

Snitch: A CLI Tool to Create GitHub Issue Reports — Create reports from the issues in your GitHub repos in five different formats. There’s ▶️ a 20 minute screencast showing off where this can be useful.

Node to Get SQLite Built-In? — Deno has its own built in key/value store powered by SQLite – perhaps Node could gain similar powers by this initial effort to bake SQLite into the Node distribution. It's early days, but interesting to see. More discussion here.

pgvector-node: Improved pgvector Support for Node.js — pgvector is rapidly becoming the de facto way to work with vectors in vector similarity search systems in Postgres. This library improves support in node-postgres, Knex.js, pg-promise, Prisma, TypeORM, MikroORM, Drizzle ORM, and others.

Fabric.js 6.0: A SVG-to-Canvas and Canvas-to-SVG Library — Provides an interactive object model on top of the HTML5 canvas to make it easier to work with multiple visual elements there. Ideal for the browser but it works with Node too, on top of node-canvas.

Pongo: Write Mongo but Use Postgres — An interesting idea. Rather than being a database server that ‘speaks’ the MongoDB protocol and uses Postgres on the backend (like FerretDB), Pongo's a PostgreSQL client library that presents a Mongo-like interface to Node developers, so you get to use Postgres but act as if you’re using MongoDB.

Node v22.4.1 (Current) and Others Released — Releases to fix an incomplete fix of an earlier vulnerability on Windows, as well as a vulnerability relating to bypassing network import restrictions by use of data: URLs. Node v20.15.1 (LTS) and v18.20.4 (LTS) have also been released with said fixes.

Memetria: Redis Hosting for Serious Developers — Memetria provides secure, scalable hosting with features that enhance your development experience, including large key tracking and detailed performance metrics. Keep your production apps fast with better and uptime.

Moving from Express to Fastify (Part 1) — Express has outlasted a lot of change in the Node.js world and still forms the basis of most Web-facing Node apps. Nonetheless, there are other compelling options, and the Val Town platform shares its story of making the move to Fastify.

pnpm 9.5 Introduces Catalogs — pnpm is a popular efficiency-focused npm alternative. A new Catalogs feature enables shareable dependency version specifiers, reducing merge conflicts and improving support for monorepos.