~nodeweekly | Issue 571 - Node gets the URLPattern API (8)

Node.js TSC Votes to Stop Distributing Corepack — Corepack was introduced as an (experimental) tool bundled with Node to help with managing versions of your package managers. Corepack will live on as a separately installable tool, but will be phased out from future Node releases following a recent TSC vote.

New URLPattern API Brings Improved Pattern Matching to Node — The Cloudflare Workers team has implemented the URLPattern API in the Ada URL parser, used by both Node.js and Cloudflare Workers. The API lets you take patterns like /blog/:year/:month/:slug and test whether URLs match against them. If you’re using Node 23.8+, you can start using it today.

Securing Node.js Express APIs with Clerk and React — Learn to secure Node.js/Express APIs with Clerk & React. Implement JWT authentication, protect routes, manage users, and handle sessions seamlessly. Ideal for scalable full-stack apps.

Errsole.js: Collect, Store, and Visualize Node App Logs — Rather than leaning on a third-party service for log monitoring, the idea of Errsole is you just drop its package into your app and you get logging and a basic UI for looking at those logs all ‘out of the box’. It supports numerous storage mechanisms, from SQLite in dev to MySQL, Postgres and MongoDB...

SuperTest 7.1: HTTP Assertions Made Easy — Got an HTTP API to test? SuperTest provides a fluent API for chaining together requests and expectations. See some examples here.

The Ultimate PaaS Pricing Calculator — We wanted a tool to compare prices between Heroku, Render, Fly.io, and more. So we built one.

node-rate-limiter-flexible 6.2: Limit Number of Actions by Key and Protect Apps from Brute Force Attacks — Can use Redis, in-process memory, memcached, MongoDB, Postgres or, newly, SQLite, to count actions in either a single process or distributed environment.

gosync: Go-Style Channels and WaitGroup for Node — Possibly of interest to you if you’re familiar with Go and channels.