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Tackling the '1 Billion Row Challenge' with Node — The 1 Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) arose about a year ago to see how quickly different languages and techniques can be used to aggregate data from a 1 billion line text file. Here’s what one developer learnt trying to optimize the task with Node.

Node v23.5.0 (Current) Released — A Node release that slipped in just before 2024 ended. WebCryptoAPI’s Ed25519 and X25519 algorithms are now stable and on-thread hooks are now back.

Introducing @smoores/epub: A Package for Working with EPUB Files — EPUB is a popular e-book file format and this new library provides a way to both read and write them. npm package link.

Securing Node.js Express APIs with Clerk and React — A guide that teaches you how to authenticate API requests using ClerkExpressWithAuth() and ClerkExpressRequireAuth() middleware.

Release It 18.0: A CLI Tool to Automate Package Publishing Tasks — Think things like bumping versions, tagging, creating releases at GitHub or GitLab, changelog generation, etc.

CSV Parse: Convert CSV Text into Arrays / Objects — Extends Node’s native transform stream API so you can get up and running quickly – see some example code. Part of a suite of CSV libraries that can also generate and transform CSV more generally.

node-datachannel: libdatachannel Bindings for Node.js — libdatachannel is a standalone C++17-based implementation of various WebRTC standards, as well as WebSockets, for use on POSIX platforms.

sqs-consumer 11.3: Build Amazon SQS-Based Apps Without Boilerplate — Build SQS-based (Simple Queue Service) apps without the boilerplate. Just define an async function to handle the SQS message processing. If it’s good enough for the BBC..