🗞 Issue 1 / 03.05.2023


📄 Node.js v20 (Current) Released
The newest major version of Node.js includes a variety of interesting updates, including:

- An experimental permissions model. This is a feature Deno has at its core but now you can restrict access to certain capabilities in Node too.
- V8 11.3 (which includes Regexp /v flag support)
- The node:test test runner goes stable.
- Official support for Windows on ARM64.
- Improvements to the single executable packaging mechanism.

THE NODE.JS TEAM


📄 Vite 4.3: Now It's Even Faaaaster
A minor release of the popular frontend toolchain, but one that focuses on performance. The creatively titled How we made Vite 4.3 faaaaster digs into the details.

EVAN YOU AND CONTRIBUTORS


📄 What to expect in ECMAScript 2023 (ES14)
There are four finished proposals this year for ES14. All four are listed on GitHub as completed proposals, which are nearing official release. It is anticipated that they will be released in June 2023.

NAIRIHAR


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IN BRIEF

📜 A sneak peek of what's coming up in Angular 16.


📜 TypeScript 5.1 Beta has been released which allows undefined-returning functions to have no return statement, to have unrelated types for get and set accessor properties, namespaced attribute names when using JSX, and more.


📜 The React core team appears to have been affected by Meta's latest round of layoffs, though Dan Abramov recently noted Meta's continued investment into the ecosystem.


📜 In a recent bug report on the React repo Dan Abramov noted that if you use Preact Signals with React, you forfeit any guarantee that React will work correctly and that "if React was a piece of hardware, this is exactly the kind of thing that voids the warranty."


📜 Lizz Parody has a comparison of Node version managers, namely nvm, Volta, and asdf.


📜 Chrome 113's DevTools will allow you to override network response headers, including CORS headers. It also offers Nuxt, Vite, and Rollup debugging improvements.