Node gets a built-in package manager manager (not a typo)

#​404 — September 9, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v16.9.0 (Current) Released with Experimental Package Manager Manager — A big addition this time out is Corepack , a new experimental tool for managing package managers directly within the Node ... more

Running a Node app with Google Cloud Spanner

#​403 — September 2, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Deploying a Cloud Spanner-Based Node App — Cloud Spanner is an ‘unlimited scale’ managed relational database service Google offers ( and which was spun out of an internal database system Google used ... more

Controlling OBS Studio from Node.js

#​402 — August 26, 2021 Read on the Web 📋 In case you missed our notice a couple of weeks ago, we took a week off last week but are now back every week till Christmas :-) Don't forget you can always hit reply to recommend things for us to consider for ... more

Security releases all round

#​401 — August 12, 2021 Read on the Web 📋 Node Weekly is taking a little summer vacation next week so we'll be back for the next time on Thursday, August 26. See you then! :-) __ Peter Cooper, editor Node Weekly August 2021 Security Releases: Node 16.6.2, ... more

NestJS explained in 100 seconds

#​400 — August 5, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly 40+ Node.js Integration Test Best Practices — Component and integration tests are increasingly popular testing techniques for backends. This repository digs into a variety of quick-fire patterns and ... more

Using Google Drive as a CMS?

#​399 — July 29, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Running CPU-Bound Tasks in Node with Worker Threads — A thorough, practical introduction to using worker threads to get beyond Node’s naturally single-threaded nature. Yarin Ronel ws 8.0: Fast, Stable ... more

A super easy way to get local TLS certs automatically

#​398 — July 22, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node-RED 2.0 Released — Node-RED is a now very mature ‘low-code’ Node.js-based programming environment, particularly aimed at connecting together services or IoT devices. The 2.0 release focuses on upgrading ... more

Imagine Node running in the browser..

#​390 — May 27, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly ▶ How To Create Your First Flow in Node-RED — Node-RED is a browser-based ‘flow’ programming environment that uses Node.js under the hood and is particularly popular in enterprise IoT systems but works ... more

N-API becomes Node-API

#​389 — May 20, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Adonis v5 Now Out of Preview plus a New Site and Docs — Adonis is a full featured Node web framework which compares itself to Rails, Laravel and Django in terms of scope. v5 brings easier social authentication ... more

A ready-to-launch Node user and auth system

#​388 — May 13, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v14.17.0 (LTS) Released — If you want to stay on a nice, safe LTS release but still get modern features backported in when they're ready, this is for you. Here's what's new this time: Diagnostics ... more

RIP Node.js 10

#​387 — May 6, 2021 Read on the Web 🖋 Just a note to say we're experimenting a little bit with the format of the newsletter over the coming weeks, so if you have any feedback, hit reply and let us know. We're also always keen for submissions so let ... more

What's next for Node.js?

#​386 — April 29, 2021 Read on the Web 🖋 Just in case you missed last week's issue, it was a big one as Node 16 was released so it's worth a catch up :-) This week is somewhat quieter but a few neat things have been coming in.. __ Peter Cooper, your ... more

An array of important security releases

#377 — February 25, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Tauri: A New(ish) Framework for Building Desktop Apps with a Web Frontend — Electron is the big cheese in the ‘build desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS’ space but other contenders are now coming ... more

An interview with Ryan Dahl

#376 — February 18, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Avoiding npm Substitution Attacks — Recently there have been some high profile examples of supply chain attacks on popular source code repositories, such as where fake or eponymous packages are published, ... more

S3 + Lambda + Node = Easy video thumbnailing

#375 — February 11, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly How to Generate Thumbnails using AWS Lambda from Videos Uploaded to S3 — A perfect pairing of serverless and Node. This thorough walkthrough covers using Node to tie together processing new videos ... more

npm 7 is ready for the big time

#374 — February 4, 2021 Read on the Web 👋 Node Weekly has become curiously more difficult to curate over the past year as the ecosystem seems to have reached a plateau of maturity with fewer random proposals, libraries, or noteworthy events. This has ... more

Best practices for using Node with Docker

#371 — January 14, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly Get Ready For ESM — ES modules are rapidly becoming a day to day reality for Node.js package maintainers, so spare a thought for Sindre who has about 20 million packages ( slight exaggeration! ) to ... more

Security releases all round

#370 — January 7, 2021 Read on the Web Node Weekly napi-rs: A Minimal Library for Building Node Addons in Rust — Neon appeared in 2019 as a way to ‘electrify your Node with the power of Rust’ (Rust being an increasingly popular, high performance, safety-first ... more

The top Node best practices, ORMs, and tools of 2020

👋 Thanks for continuing to read Node Weekly and for your submissions and support across the year! This is the final issue of 2020 and we'll be back on January 7, 2021 — we hope you have a happy holiday season :-) __ Peter Cooper, your editor, and the ... more

Spelunking Node's event loop

#368 — December 10, 2020 Read on the Web Node Weekly An Introduction to Event Loop Utilization — Trevor Norris of the core Node.js team has put together a neat writeup of what he’s discovered by measuring and tracking what the event loop is doing. Gets ... more

❇️ Node 15.1 with the new features

#363 — November 5, 2020 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v15.1.0 (Current) Released — If you need to get away from the stresses and strains of the week for a bit, why not play with the newest Node release? It has a few neat new bits to check out: Diagnostics ... more

'Node.js 15 makes 7 of my packages obsolete. This is a good thing.'

#362 — October 29, 2020 Read on the Web Node Weekly Introducing the Public npm Roadmap — npm is now essentially a GitHub project and one they’re keen to nurture. They’ve revealed a public roadmap repo with what things are coming up soon as well as a ... more

Node 15 released - what you need to know

#361 — October 22, 2020 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node 15 Released — The new ‘release’ line (the one that gets all the new features first) of Node is here with v14 due to become LTS in the next week or two (more on this below). But what’s actually ... more

npm 7.0 released (and a webpack 5 headache)

#360 — October 15, 2020 Read on the Web Node Weekly npm 7.0 Released — With millions of users, resulting in 75 billion package downloads per month, npm has undoubtedly been a huge success and npm 7 is now here (and will also come with Node.js 15.0 next ... more

�� Node.js is 11 years old

#340 — May 28, 2020 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node v12.17.0 (LTS) Released: Features Coming Back from the Future — Node 12 isn’t the latest Node but it’s the latest LTS version you’re probably using in production, so it’s exciting to see newer Node ... more

Electron 9.0 and Node 14.3 released

#339 — May 21, 2020 Read on the Web A really quiet week but we've made it 😄 With that said, if you have any projects or articles you want to submit (or even if you have an article idea you'd like us to commission ), hit reply and let us know :-) Node ... more

A first peek at npm v7, plus Playwright 1.0 and Deno 1.0

#338 — May 14, 2020 Read on the Web Node Weekly The Vision of npm v7 — If you thought the npm blog would fade away after the GitHub acquisition, you thought wrong! Isaac Schlueter is back with a status update on what the next major version of npm will ... more

Node 14.2.0, plus Deno 1.0 is coming

#337 — May 7, 2020 Read on the Web ✍️ With a few of the links today, this is a good time to note we sometimes link to things we disagree with or that are controversial if they are newsworthy or of relevance to our community. Inclusion is not always endorsement ... more

Can you build Node add-ons in Rust? Yes.

#336 — April 30, 2020 Read on the Web Be sure to check out the Tools and Libraries section today as there have been quite a lot of (minor) releases.. from MIDI parsing and JPEG decoding to generating TypeScript types from a Postgres database.. maybe ... more

Node 14 has been released

#335 — April 23, 2020 Read on the Web Node Weekly Node.js 14 Released — Woo-hoo another major release of Node.js is here. v14 now becomes the current ‘release’ line with it becoming a LTS (Long Term Support) release in October.. so production apps would, ... more