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Issue 627 - Find better alternatives to npm packages

Hocuspocus | Tiptap Collaboration Docs

https://tiptap.dev/docs/hocuspocus/getting-started/overview

Hocuspocus 4: Add Real-Time Collaboration to Any App — A real-time collaboration backend based on Yjs so you can quickly wire multi-user collaborative experiences into apps. It runs on Node, Bun, Deno, or Cloudflare Workers.

3 months ago

Node.js — Node.js 26.3.0 (Current)

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.3.0

Node.js 26.3.0 (Current) Released — Buffer.poolSize default is now 64 KB for fewer allocations under heavy I/O, permission.drop() joins the permissions model API, and macOS Universal binaries are no longer guaranteed for future releases (the intention is to keep them "for as long as practical").

3 months ago

How to Evaluate an npm Package - 2026 Edition

https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-05-29-How-to-Evaluate-an-npm-Package-2026-Edition/

🤔 How to Evaluate an npm Package — If replacements.fyi (above) convinced you to switch packages, learn how to spot the red flags before you npm install with this checklist for vetting packages — covering provenance attestation, install scripts, CI quality, and more.

3 months ago

https://openai.com/index/wasmer/

https://openai.com/index/wasmer/

How Wasmer Used Codex to Build a Node.js Runtime — A case study from OpenAI on how the Wasmer team used OpenAI's Codex agent to get Node workloads running inside a WebAssembly sandbox. (The resulting project is the open-source Edge.js which you can use now.)

3 months ago

Node.js 24 vs 25 vs 26 Complete Benchmark

https://www.repoflow.io/blog/node-js-24-vs-25-vs-26-complete-benchmark

📊 Benchmarking Node.js 24 vs 25 vs 26 — Earlier this year, RepoFlow benchmarked every Node version between 16 and 25. Now they’re focusing on recent releases, but in all but one case, there’s little difference.

3 months ago

Copilot SDK is now generally available - GitHub Changelog

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-02-copilot-sdk-is-now-generally-available/

🤖 GitHub Copilot SDK Now Generally Available — Available for several platforms, including Node, this SDK lets you wield the agentic engine behind Copilot in your own apps (coupled with your own custom-built tools) and it uses an existing Copilot subscription. The getting started tutorial provides a good intro and the cookbook includes some sample apps.

3 months ago

replacements.fyi - performant, safer npm package alternatives

https://replacements.fyi/

replacements.fyi: Find Replacements for npm Packages — Type in a package name and get suggestions of lighter alternatives or Node APIs and code snippets that do the same task. For example: is-number leads to a one-liner, axios turns into fetch, and chalk recommends util.styleText. A neat idea it’d be cool to see grow further.

3 months ago

Release redis@6.0.0 · redis/node-redis

https://github.com/redis/node-redis/releases/tag/redis%406.0.0

node-redis 6.0: The Official Node.js Driver for Redis — Coinciding with the release of Redis 8.8, the Node driver adds support for 8.8’s new array commands, switches to the RESP3 protocol by default, and more. There’s a migration guide for 5.x users.

3 months ago

Introducing Structon: Random-Access Binary Encoding for JavaScript

https://www.harper.fast/resources/introducing-structon-random-access-binary-encoding-for-javas

Structon: Random-Access Binary Encoding for JavaScript — Encodes objects into a binary format you can read field-by-field, so you can pull individual values straight out of the buffer without deserializing whole records.

3 months ago

Fixing JavaScript observability, one library at a time

https://blog.sentry.io/fixing-javascript-observability/

Fixing JavaScript Observability, One Library at a Time — The team at Sentry have been working on an approach to replace the monkey-patching that powers JavaScript APM tools with a runtime-oriented diagnostics channel-based approach. The hard part? Getting popular packages to join in, but it’s happening.

3 months ago