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Transformers.js v3: Now You Can Run Transformers in Node.js — A JavaScript port of Hugging Face’s transformers Python library that makes it possible to run natural language, vision, and audio machine learning models. v3 adds WebGPU support and now supports Node (plus Deno and Bun) as well as the browser. 1200+ models are ready to run in areas like embeddings, text generation, and speech...

AutoCannon 8.0: A Fast HTTP/1.1 Benchmarking Tool — Inspired by wrk and wrk2 with support for HTTP pipelining.

match-sorter 7.0: Deterministic Best-Match Array Sorting — If you have an array of items you want to filter and sort deterministically, match-sorter provides a specified, predictable algorithm. Play with a live demo here.

Fetch Mock 12.0: Mock Requests by the fetch API — A flexible API for mocking HTTP requests made by fetch or fetch-imitating libraries. Supports browsers, Node, and web/service workers.

How Top-Level await Could Break Compatibility — Node 23 makes it possible to load ES modules transparently with require which is great, but.. only if the module being loaded isn’t using top-level await. One for package creators to think carefully about before backwards compatibility issues creep in!

Node v23.0.0 (Current) Released — Say hello to the newest release line of Node.js that gets all the cutting edge features first (Node 22 will soon become the active LTS release). v23 notably enables support for loading ES modules with require() by default, drops 32-bit Windows support, and node --run goes stable.

Introducing Express v5: The Official Express v5 Release Post! — We first spied the release of Express.js v5 over a month ago but now we get an official release post that tidies up a lot of loose ends and explains the broad plan. For now, v5 is considered a bleeding edge release with work still required in areas of security and overall process, but...

The Story of the Hono Web Framework — Hono is a lightweight framework designed to run on any JavaScript runtime that's been picking up steam in the past year. With it, you can create an app in a Express-like style but run it on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, or Node.

Why I’m Skeptical of Rewriting JavaScript Tools in “Faster” Languages — Rewriting common JavaScript infrastructure / build tools in ‘faster’ languages like Rust, Zig or Go has become popular in the past few years, but is it really necessary, asks Nolan?

Best Testing Practices in Node.js — A quick-fire list of 15 worthwhile testing practices to use in order to write efficient, effective, and easy-to-maintain tests.

Javet 4.0: Embed Node and V8 in Java Apps — My JVM knowledge is poor enough that I haven't tried this yet, but it's a fascinating idea. The idea is you can use Node and V8 directly within the JVM, though platform support is mixed. GitHub repo.

Ultimate ExpressJS Starter — Yes, another one! This ‘batteries-included’ TypeScript-based Express.js boilerplate app does include a lot out of the box, though, particularly in the area of file uploading.

route-list: CLI Tool to Display Express/Koa/Hapi/Fastify Routes — If you’ve got a Node-based webapp and you want to see all of its endpoints in an elegant way, here’s an option.

Electron 33.0: The Cross-Platform Desktop App Framework — Electron drops a major release each two months. This one lands no major new features but jumps from Chromium 128 to 130, as well as V8 13.0, and Node 20.18.0.

Become a Better Engineer in Less Than 5 Minutes a Week — Hacking Scale is a bi-weekly newsletter about building and scaling software. Get an engineering story explained in < 1000 words, with hand-drawn visuals, delivered to your inbox. Ship with secrets from Figma or OpenAI.

Inquirer.js 12.0: A Collection of Common Interactive CLI Controls — Want to ask your users questions? Select from predefined options? Enter a password? Check boxes? (Maybe you want to make sure they’re not affiliated with WP Engine or something ridiculous like that.) Well, then, this is for you.

Node Version Manager Desktop 4.0 — A Tauri-powered desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux to manage multiple installed versions of Node on your system.

Check Out Depot's GitHub Actions Price Calculator and Optimize Your Builds — Depot just launched a GitHub Actions price calculator! Get a cost breakdown & see how much faster and cheaper Depot is.

pretty-print: Appealing String Representations of JS Values — Produce a string representation of any value. Similar to util.inspect but with many extra options for tree-ifying, coloring, sorting, choosing what to display, etc.

🤖 KaibanJS: A Framework for Building Multi-Agent Systems — Why let Python have all the AI and LLM fun? KaibanJS promises to ‘fill the void’ by offering a JS-first framework specifically for building LLM-powered AI agents.

Announcing Deno 2: Node Done Right, Again(?) — What if the inventor of Node got to do it all over again? Deno! v2.0 refines the recipe with a focus on backwards compatibility with Node, an area surely impeding adoption till now. We love the ▶️ epic ‘Announcing Deno 2’ video recorded by Ryan and the team – it’s a mix of entertainment and a ‘keynote-style’...

Node vs Bun: No Backend Performance Difference? — You can always trust a benchmark to ruffle some feathers, often over the methodology rather than the result. This is no exception, but interesting nonetheless.

Node v20.18.0 (LTS) Released; v20 'Iron' Prepares to Bow Out as Active LTS Release — It’s been a quiet few weeks for official releases. This update marks one of the last in Node 20’s run as the active LTS release, and introduces experimental network inspection support. Node 22 will soon take over the active LTS crown (as per schedule) but what will its codename be...

How Bun Supports V8 APIs Without Using V8 — Bun uses the JavaScriptCore engine, not V8, yet it can support Node addons that rely upon V8’s APIs. Here’s how it works under the hood.