Hi Folks! May is going to be a very busy month with some traveling as well as many OSS releases and new announcements. I took a slightly new format for the release announcements.. let me know what you think!
The NodeConf.eu CFP is now open! Would you like to come to Ireland to speak at the most-awaited in-person event of the year?
NodeConf EU has rightly earned its reputation as the leading key Node.js event in Europe. As we celebrate NodeConf’s 10th anniversary this year, it is…
I have been really busy updating a lot of the modules to the upcoming Fastify v4 release - this is helping prepare the release notes as you want to quickly identify what is breaking and how to update your applications. Check them out:
My colleague Paolo Insogna had added to Node.js core the capability to close all idle connections (i.e. KeepAlive). This will enable to improve the “graceful shutdown” scenario significantly and it’s coming to you on Node.js v18! Check it out:
We made fetch happen in Node.js 18 and folks are opening up a huge amount of issues about it. We are slowing crunching them so to ensure that everything works for the ecosystem. As an example, we are making the global Undici Dispatcher truly global, so it’s shared between Node.js own fetch implementation and the undici module.
OpenSSL vulnerabilities disclosed on May 3rd are only marginally affecting Node.js, so we will release them as part of the normal release cadence. Read the full announcement.
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I started coding primarily in JavaScript back in 2012. I had built a PHP app for a local business from the ground up, a basic CMS and website, and they decided that they wanted to rewrite it and add a bunch of features.
James Snell is coordinating an amazing effort to create some standards for Web APIs on the server. These are exciting times for working on JavaScript runtimes:
Today, Cloudflare – in partnership with Vercel, Shopify, and individual core contributors to both Node.js and Deno – is announcing the establishment of a new Community Group focused on the interoperable implementation of standardized web APIs in non-web browser, JavaScript-based development environments.
450,000 developers have used Cloudflare Workers since we launched. When we announced Cloudflare Workers nearly five years ago, we had no idea if we’d ever be in this position.
I write about my journey as a core contributor of Node.js, as an author and a maintainer of many modules - including Fastify and Pino. In addition, I speak at conferences, and I will add links to all my talks in case you missed one.
