📌 Issue 41 / 03.10.2023


📄 Honey, I Shrunk the npm Package!

Compression sits under the hood of everything on the modern Web, including npm packages (distributed as gzipped tarballs). Could the standard gzip approach be showing its age in both speed and effectiveness? Jamie runs a package through a few alternatives and gives an update on efforts to modernize npm’s compression defaults.

JAMIE MAGEE


ASIDES:

- A variety of malicious 'typosquatting' packages on both npm and PyPI have been found to be stealing SSH keys from developers. Take care over what you're installing out there.

- 🐢 We recently mentioned a discussion around Node.js getting its own mascot. The discussion has continued with lots of new ideas thrown into the mix.

- Google Cloud SQL's Node.js connector is now generally available.


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❓ CHALLENGE #148

Painful 😥😂

📌 Issue 42 / 06.10.2023


📄 An Interactive Intro to CRDTs

Conflict-free replicated data types (the so-called CRDTs) provide a popular approach to replicate data across numerous clients and allow live collaboration between them without conflicts. This post really digs into what makes CRDTs tick well, complete with interactive examples.

JAKE LAZAROFF


📄Test Assertion Styles in JavaScript

Isaac, fundamental to the development of npm and the growth of Node, shares his thoughts on the two main approaches common in JavaScript testing APIs and which he prefers best.

ISAAC Z. SCHLUETER


🔵 TypeScript 5.3 beta has been released with improved support for import attributes, improved type narrowing in numerous situations, and inlay hints in VS Code can now jump you to the type's definition.


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❓ CHALLENGE #150

🔥 Using insecure npm package manager defaults to steal your macOS keyboard shortcuts

Yagiz Nizipli

🔼 In the next version of Bun

A memory leak impacting fetch() is fixed

left: bun v1.0.4
right: bun v1.0.5

@jarredsumner

❓ CHALLENGE #152

All developers are the same ... 😂 💅

❓ CHALLENGE #153

🧵 Tread-safe map structure for worker_threads.

https://github.com/nairihar/worker_map

A simple abstraction for Node.js worker_threads, allowing you to create and share a Map (hash table) between worker threads and the main process. This simplifies the process of managing shared data and communication between worker threads.

NAIRI

🗣️ Send this to the person you think is interested in Node.js multithreading!