~nodeweekly | Issue 549 - Principles for doing Node right at scale (12)

The Nine Node Pillars: Principles for Doing Node Right in the Enterprise — An interesting resource from a group of prolific and productive Node.js contributors. It’s designed to act as a checklist to identify gaps in your current Node development practices, particularly when building larger scale apps.

Node v22.9.0 (Current) Released — The latest cutting edge Node has a new API for retrieving the stack trace of the current execution. It also disables V8’s Maglev optimizing JIT due to upstream reliability problems and the necessity for Node v22 to stick with V8 v12.4 when it goes LTS next month.

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.

What's New in Express.js 5.0 — We mentioned Express 5.0 and some of its new features recently, but here's a deeper look at what it has to offer. The updates are largely incremental, but set the stage for Express’s future. A few breaking changes necessitate the major version bump.

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.

A Comprehensive Guide to Node.js Addons — If you’d rather stick with Node than use Bun’s newest feature to bring C/C++ etc. into JavaScript, writing your own addon remains a dependable approach.

Deno 2.0 Release Candidate — Deno started life as a manifestation of ideas that Node’s original creator, Ryan Dahl, had after his experiences with Node. Deno 2 is the next step: how the Deno team thinks Deno should ultimately be. Many changes await: window is gone and Node’s process appears, dependency management has been improved, numerous APIs have gone stable (e.g. WebGPU), and both...

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.

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.

libpg-query-node: Postgres' SQL Parser, Exposed for Node — Use Postgres’s SQL parser at a low level from Node via libpg_query. If you want something higher level, this library is used by pgsql-parser which gives the ability to parse and serialize queries into/from ASTs.

Piscina 4.7: Node.js Worker Pool Library — Efficiently run CPU-intensive tasks in parallel using worker threads in a controlled manner. GitHub repo.