Multithreaded Javascript (2021)

Traditionally, JavaScript has been a single-threaded language. Nearly all online forum posts, books, online documentation, and libraries refer to the language as single threaded. ...

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JavaScript Array Methods Cheatsheet

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🗞 Issue 15 / 21.06.2023


🎬 Recreating a JS Runtime to Understand Node's Magic

Popular speaker, educator, Microsoft MVP and Node.js core team member Erick gives a very enthusiastic talk on the latest ‘hello world’ in the JavaScript world: building a runtime Somehow, Erick manages to run through the key concepts involved in just 20 minutes.

ERICK WENDEL


📄 Node.js Security Releases Due Imminently

Pencilled in for June 20, 2023 (today!), the Node.js 16.x, 18.x, and 20.x lines will all get fresh releases to fix a variety of medium and high severity security issues, as well as some OpenSSL related security updates. Keep an eye on this post if you want to upgrade ASAP.

RAFAEL GONZAGA


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🛠 CODE & TOOLS


🔩 Piscina 4.0: A Fast Worker Thread Pool Implementation

Node’s worker threads bring true multithreading to Node apps and Piscina is a pool for tracking and controlling the number of such threads.

PISCINA


🔩 🙂 Node-Emoji: Simple Emoji Functions for Node

You get methods like emoji.emojify, unemojify and find to help you work with emojis and English representations of them. Supports ESM and recently rewritten to TypeScript.

DANIEL BUGL


🔩 Toad Scheduler: In-Memory Node and Browser Job Scheduler

Provides a little more structure than setTimeout or setInterval and supports cron-style scheduling too.

IGOR SAVIN