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WorkOS Enterprise Ready Conference — A one-day event in SF for product and engineering leaders shaping the future of enterprise SaaS. Speakers from OpenAI, Asana, Slack, Canva, Vanta, and more. Topics will include user identity, compliance, encryption, and logging — common features you need to support to sell to enterprises.

ts-blank-space: Fast Type-Stripping TypeScript to JS Compiler — It’s job is simple. Be the fastest TS to JS compiler written in JS (it’s 5.6x faster than tsc.) Types are simply replaced with whitespace. It preserves the coordinates of the JS code which eliminates the need for sourcemaps entirely.

ts-remove-unused: Remove Unused Code from TypeScript Projects — A tool to auto-fix unused exports and delete modules that have no referenced exports. Knip is another established tool in this space focused more on detecting removable things.

Now You Can Compile and Run C in JavaScript — Well, if you’re using Bun, anyway. Bun v1.1.28 lands experimental support for compiling and native C code and then running its functions from JavaScript.

▶  From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began — A brief nine minute documentary exploring the origins of Deno with Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder. A good, quick way to get up to speed with the motivations behind the alternative JavaScript runtime.

nano-spawn: Tiny Execa-Inspired Process Execution — If you’re familiar with Sindre’s powerful Execa for running commands from a Node app in a robust manner, nano-spawn offers its core functionality in a smaller package and remains a better option than child_process in any case.

JavaScript™: A Plea for Oracle to Release the JavaScript Trademark — It’s long been a bone of contention in the JavaScript community that Oracle owns the JavaScript trademark, but this marks the first truly serious effort to try and change that. Join the effort by ‘signing’ this open letter, if you agree.

Chokidar 4.0: Efficient Cross-Platform File Watching Library — Wraps around fs.watch / fs.watchFile and normalizes the events received, applies some best practices, and presents an API that works the same across different platforms.

🗓️ ViteConf is October 3rd! — StackBlitz is r(ai)sing the bar in the ViteConf '24 keynote. You won’t want to miss it 👀.

🍪🔒 tough-cookie 5.0: RFC6265 Cookies and CookieJar for Node — A long standing library from Salesforce, now with a major update. v5.0 includes a move to TypeScript, as well as some API changes.

Biome v1.9 Released; Turns One Year Old — Biome started life as a fork of Rome, a bold attempt to create an all-in-one ‘frontend toolchain’. As of v1.9, Biome can format and lint CSS, GraphQL, and JavaScript, does it very quickly, yet has 97% compatibility with Prettier.

FarmHash 4.0: Node Implementation of Google's High Performance Hash Functions — FarmHash is a family of non-cryptographic hash functions built by Google mostly for quickly hashing strings.

hot-shots: A Node Client for StatsD, DogStatsD, and Telegraf — Originally a turbo-charged, modernized fork of node-statsd.

Express.js 5.0 Released; Sort Of — After a long period of seeming to merely be on life support, work on Express picked up significantly earlier this year with a big plan to push ‘Express forward.’ The first fruit of this process is now beginning to appear with v5.0. Node 18 is now the minimum support version, there are error handling improvements, improvements to the...

Rockpack 4.4: An Alternative React App Builder — Akin to Create React App, the goal is to get project setup time as low as possible, but Rockpack holds different opinions around how far to take things and packs in a lot of ideas including server side rendering, linting, and testing. GitHub repo.

node-html-to-image 5.0: Generate Images from HTML — Wraps around Puppeteer, but also lets you use Handlebars for added logic in your HTML.

setImmediate() vs setTimeout() — setImmediate is considered deprecated in the browser space, but its different behavior still has a role to play in Node.

Set Up a $4/mo Hetzner VM to Skip the 'Serverless Tax'? — For many use cases, it can be cheaper and more convenient to spin up a cheap server than go serverless.

Integrating Slonik with Express.js — Slonik is a type-safe Node Postgres client that lets you build SQL queries in a composable way.

Jimp 1.6: Image Processing in Node without Native Dependencies — Most image libraries, such as the powerful Sharp, lean on external libraries to do the heavy lifting, but Jimp can handle BMPs, GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs, and TIFFs on its own for blurring, color adjustments, resizing, rotation, etc. GitHub repo.

jsdiff 7.0: A JavaScript Text Diffing Implementation — Can compare strings for differences in various ways including creating patches. There’s an online demo.

Why Playwright is Less Flaky Than Selenium — “Playwright is so fast that it forces you to write UI tests correctly on day one. Selenium isn’t.”

Front-End System Design — Learn to create scalable, efficient user interfaces in this extensive video course by Evgennii Ray. Explore the box model, browser rendering, DOM manipulation, state management, performance and much more.

Prisma 5.19.0, Now with 'Typed SQL' — Prisma is a popular declaratively-driven ORM in the Node.js / TypeScript world and its new version makes it possible to write raw SQL queries in a type-safe way.