~nodeweekly | Issue 545 - Now Node can run even more TypeScript (10)

How to Create an NPM Package in 2024 — Sounds simple, but there are a lot of steps involved if you want to follow best practices, introduce useful tools, and get things just right. Matt Pocock walks through the process here, and there’s a 14-minute screencast too, if you’d prefer to watch along.

Node v22.7.0 (Current) Released — Node 22.6 let you strip types from source code, but now with --experimental-transform-types you can transform TypeScript-only syntax into JavaScript before running it too. Module syntax detection is now also enabled by default.

sqlite-vec: A Vector Search Extension for SQLite — If using a dedicated vector storage database is beyond your immediate requirements, you can now use SQLite for the task. While this is an SQLite extension, it’s easy to use with numerous languages and runtimes, including Node.js, as shown here.

Node v20.17.0 (LTS) Released — The LTS release of Node gains some backports, including support for using require for synchronous ESM graphs (using a flag), matchesGlob, and duplexPair.

Regexes Got Good: The History (and Future) of Regular Expressions in JavaScript — Regular expression support in JavaScript was always a little underwhelming, but things have improved a lot in recent years. Steven takes us on a tour to refresh our knowledge.

▶  Node.js Evolves — Discussion on new Node.js features including native TypeScript support, SQLite integration, dotenv support and more.

npm-check-updates 17.0: Update package.json Dependencies to Latest Versions — That is, as opposed to the specified versions. It includes a handy -i interactive mode so you can look at potential upgrades and then opt in to them one by one.

html-metadata 2.0: HTML Metadata Scraper and Parser — The Wikimedia Foundation’s library for extracting metadata embedded within HTML, such as Schema․org data, Dublin Core, JSON-LD, Open Graph, meta tags, title tags, and the like.

N3.js: Fast, Spec-Compliant, Streaming RDF Library — RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a long standing mechanism / format for modeling and specifying Web resources and this library works in Node and browser alike.

wait-on 8.0: Tool & Library to Wait for Ports, Files, and Sockets — For when you need to wait until files, ports, sockets, and similar resources become available (or the opposite).