~nodeweekly | Issue 537 - Should Node make ES modules easier to use? (13)

Node.js is Here to Stay — Deno.. Bun.. has Node’s popularity started to wane? No, says Matteo Collina, who shows us the receipts confirming Node’s continued dominance of the server-side JavaScript space, including how Node continues to be downloaded some 130 million times per month. He also touches on some of the recent additions to the runtime.

Node-RED 4.0 Released — Node-RED is a popular ‘low code’ event-driven app development environment that uses Node.js behind the scenes. v4.0 requires Node 18 or up, improves its ‘multiplayer’ support (when multiple users are working on the same system), faster deploys, and other all-round improvements.

Get to Grips With Machine Learning in JavaScript — Charlie Gerard shares how to use TensorFlow.js to train and run ML models in JavaScript. This practical video course explores model training, optimization, testing, and more.

Node v20.15.0 (LTS) Released — It’s time for the active LTS release of Node to gain a few backported features, including support for test plans in the test runner, --inspect-wait, and zlib.crc32().

'NPM and Node Should Do More to Make ES Modules Easy to Use' — As a developer who’s spent some time away from JavaScript, Boris has run into some teething issues with ESM, but has some ideas as to how things could be better. Unsurprisingly, this led to extensive discussion on Hacker News, too.

A Look at JavaScript's New Set Methods — Available in Node 22+, Chrome/Edge 122+, Firefox 127+ and Safari 17+, finding the intersection, union, and difference between sets, amongst other set-related things, is a piece of cake.

Use Node Version Manager (NVM) with Oh My Zsh — NVM is a popular tool for switching between Node.js versions on your machine, but it’s possible to use it directly from a Oh my Zsh setup, too.

How to Setup Serverless Framework with AWS and Node.js — Serverless Framework is a long standing toolkit for deploying apps in a serverless/functions-as-a-service fashion to AWS Lambda. This is a basic look at a few stages in the setup process.

Rushlight: A Real-Time Self Hosted Collaborative Editor — Pitched as a way to make collaborative CodeMirror-based code editors that run on your own infrastructure, using just Redis and Postgres.

NodeSwift: A Bridge Between Node and Swift Code — Bridges Node.js and Swift (as commonly used on macOS/iOS) so you can write Swift code that talks to Node and vice versa.

Temporal for Startups — Startups: Ship fast with Temporal. Guaranteed reliability. Code in your language. Get $2,400 free credits & expert advice to accelerate success.

custom-cache-decorator: Customizable Cache Decorator for Methods — A TypeScript library providing a customizable cache decorator for methods with configurable caching mechanisms.

Phoenix: A JavaScriptable macOS Window and App Manager — If you want full control over your window management and you know JavaScript, this is for you. Here’s an example script to give you a taster.