NodeSource Adopts gRPC: A Step Toward Greater Resilience, Scalability, and Open Standards
Recently, we took a significant step forward by adopting gRPC in N|Solid —a widely used open-source protocol for efficient communication between systems.
State of Node.js Performance 2024
This article revisits the State of Node.js performance, focusing on comparing versions 20 through 22. Providing how Node.js has evolved over the past year.
A 2024 JavaScript retrospective
#717 — December 19, 2024 Read on the Web 🎄 We’ve made it to the end of 2024! In this issue, we’re being reflective, leading with a few news items but then looking at what made 2024 special in the world of JavaScript, and covering some of the biggest things we linked to this year. …
Benchmarking Node’s recent performance enhancements
#716 — December 12, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Boa v0.20: An Alternative JavaScript Compiler — Under development for several years, Boa has a few missions: be a Rust ECMAScript implementation, be easy to embed in Rust projects, and be a fast, safe JS engine overall. v0.20 sees a bump up to 89.92% …
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Oracle engages its lawyers and JavaScript turns 29
#715 — December 5, 2024 Read on the Web 🗓️ If you missed last week’s issue, don’t worry, it didn’t exist – we took a week off for Thanksgiving! We’re now back all the way through to the Christmas break 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript™ Weekly Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did …
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Exploring JavaScript symbols
#714 — November 21, 2024 Read on the Web 🦃 We’re taking next week off for Thanksgiving. We don’t celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a break. We’ll be back on Thursday December 5.__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript Weekly Importing a Frontend JavaScript …
Will we care about frameworks in an AI world?
#713 — November 14, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Component Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries — A long-standing comparison of many different frameworks (like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Qwik, Solid.js, etc.) by way of simple code snippets to perform various tasks. Now including Svelte 5 and Angular 17/Renaissance. Mathieu Schimmerling Will We Care …
Node.js v22 Enters Long Term Support (LTS)
On October 29, 2024,* Node.js v22 officially transitioned into *Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename ‘Jod’. For developers and organizations relying on the stability of Node.js for production environments, this transition marks a key milestone for Node.js 22.x, ensuring it will receive critical updates and security support for years to come. Let’s take a …
JSConf is back
#712 — November 7, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript’s ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple — The ??= nullish coalescing assignment operator snuck into JavaScript a few years ago via ECMAScript 2021 and has been broadly supported almost everywhere for ages. Trevor shows off how it can tighten up your assignments here. Trevor …
CityJS Medellín 2024 Recap: A Thriving JavaScript Community and a Big Announcement for Latin America!
CityJS Medellín 2024 was an amazing conference that drew together both local and international developers in Medellín for an immersive experience focused on JavaScript, innovation, and collaboration. Held on October 25-26, the conference underscored Colombia’s growing influence in the tech world and showcased the talent of Colombian developers alongside renowned global experts. As the first …