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Zigar: Write and Use Zig Code in Node and Electron Projects — Zig is a systems language that’s essentially a superset of C/C++ (Bun is written in it). Zigar makes it possible to write and use C/C++/Zig code more easily within JavaScript projects.

qnm: A CLI Tool to Look Into node_modules — If you’ve ever been overwhelmed by what’s in node_modules, this tool lets you dig around with some guidance as to what is what. You can use fuzzy search to find specific things as well as see which modules are using the most space (you can try it right now with npx qnm doctor).

php-node: A New Way to Bring PHP and Node Together — I bet some readers have strong feelings about the idea of mixing PHP and Node.js, but this is a neat project. php-node is a native module for Node that enables the running of PHP apps within the Node environment. Why? For migrating legacy apps, building hybrid PHP/JS apps, or Node apps that simply...

Implement AI Safeguards with Node.js and Llama Stack — Llama Stack is Meta’s framework for building AI apps in Node, Python, Swift or Kotlin.

🏖️ Beachpatrol: A CLI Tool to Automate Your Everyday Web Browser — A higher level way to use Playwright on macOS or Linux to control a regular non-headless browser instance. It’s essentially an approach where you still want a visible browser you can use in a normal way but with added automation possibilities.

Opossum 8.5: A Circuit Breaker for Async Functions — You can do things like trigger a failure after a certain timeout, fail entirely if a certain error threshold is reached, etc. GitHub repo.

🤖 OpenAI Client 5.x: Use OpenAI's Models from Node — The latest version of OpenAI’s official JavaScript library for its various APIs now has support for all its latest models and the Realtime API (v5.0 changelog). It also supports Deno and Bun.

Astra: A New JavaScript-to-EXE Compiler for Windows — Boasts “a new approach to compiling” JavaScript applications for a single executable experience on Windows only (for now).

Defuddle: Extract the Main Content from Web Pages — Strips extraneous clutter from HTML in order to leave only the primary content for you to format or use as you wish. Essentially a modern implementation of the ideas behind Mozilla’s Readability. There’s an online demo if you want to give it a try.

express-generator-typescript: An Express.js + TypeScript App Generator — Creates the boilerplate for a TypeScript-powered Express.js app. Now uses Express.js 5.

A Developer’s Guide to Migrating from API Keys to OAuth 2.1 — Many still rely on API keys for service-to-service auth. But with MCP making OAuth 2.1 mandatory, it’s no longer just a “nice-to-have.” Here's what’s changing and what it means for your architecture.

A Report From April's Node.js Collaboration Summit — Twice a year, a large group of Node contributors and community members get together to discuss the project, brainstorm ideas, and push forward new initiatives. This time, they talked about the recent CI security incident, Async Context, improving Node’s ability to compile apps into executables, Undici, module loader hooks, and better integration with Chrome’s DevTools.

CodeRabbit’s Free AI Code Reviews in IDE - VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf — Code Rabbit brings AI code reviews to VS Code, Cursor & Windsurf. Get line-by-line reviews, one-click fixes & codebase-aware feedback - all free in your IDE. Seamlessly integrates with git workflows. Install the extension & start reviewing!

Node.js TSC Declines to Endorse Feature Bounty Program — There was recently a debate around whether the Node.js project should establish a formal feature bounty program to enable end users to offer monetary rewards for specific features. This post summarizes why the official response is no, for now.

⚡ Announcing TypeScript Native Previews — Earlier this year, Anders Hejlsberg teased a 10x faster TypeScript through efforts being made to port the TypeScript compiler to Go, enabling it to be compiled and run natively, as well as take advantage of more concurrency. You can now try it for yourself.

Six Ways Slack, Notion, and VS Code Improved Electron App Performance — An experienced Electron app developer shares a guide to Electron performance optimization and how to get the most out of your apps.

Google Gen AI SDK for TypeScript and JavaScript v1 — Why let Python developers have all the fun? Now you can harness the full power of Google’s Gemini API (and Vertex platform) from Node too. v1.0 landed a few days ago, but today we also get v1.1 which includes CommonJS support. The Gemini docs and examples now use it too (if you select JavaScript).

Feedsmith: A Fresh New Web Feed Parser and Generator — The creator of Feedsmith ran into numerous problems with existing libraries, so created this new, modern way to both parse and generate RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, OPML, and RDF feeds with support for common namespaces as used in podcast, media, and other niche types of feed. It’s still early days but the essentials are there.

jsdiff 8.0: A JavaScript Text Diffing Implementation — Can compare strings for differences in various ways including creating patches. There’s an online demo.

Hyparquet: Parquet File Parser for JavaScript — Parquet is a popular column-oriented data file format frequently used for storing large datasets for analysis. Hyparquet is a dependency-free JavaScript library for working with Parquet files, even in the browser (as in this demo).

ANSIS 4.0: ANSI Color Library for Everywhere — A ESM and CommonJS library to use the power of ANSI escape sequences for coloring and styling text in numerous environments including the terminal, Chromium-based browsers, Node, Bun, Deno, and even Next.js. v4.0 is a big upgrade with enough breaking changes to warrant a migration guide for existing users.

Common Downtime Causes (With Real Node.js Examples) — Bad deploys, traffic spikes, dependency fails—our guide shows how to spot downtime early with real-world Node.js examples and smarter monitoring.

Best Practices for Creating a Modern npm Package — A step-by-step “as of 2025” walkthrough of creating your own npm package using current best practices. We’ve linked to this before but it’s just been updated.

Node v24.0.1 (Current) Released — Node 24.0 was released last week, but now we have a patch release to reintroduce the long-deprecated SlowBuffer which was removed in Node 24. Why? There are still popular packages using it.