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❓ CHALLENGE #145

📌 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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