~nodeweekly | Issue 574 - Another way to package Node apps into small executables (7)

Fastify + React – 7x Faster than Next.js? — Node’s Fastify framework has a mature plugin for Vite integration (explained in detail here), including @fastify/react which just hit version 1.0 and makes it easy to create fast, featureful (though obviously less so than Next.js) React apps atop Fastify. How fast? Very, it seems.

Bi-Weekly Demo: Find & Fix Errors in Your Application — In this fast-paced 25-min demo, see how Sentry (and Codecov) help you catch Node errors, spot slowdowns, and ship cleaner code—without getting buried in logs. Hosted biweekly by a real human who’s broken plenty of apps, too. 👉 Save your spot.

Comparing Tauri and Electron for Building Desktop Apps — Electron is a natural choice for building JS and HTML-powered cross-platform desktop apps but numerous alternatives have appeared like Neutralinojs and the Rust-based Tauri. This post does a good job of quickly showing how Tauri differs and why you might choose it.

Some Features Every JavaScript Developer Should Know in 2025 — A quick list post breezing through a few more modern areas of JavaScript including iterator helpers, structuredClone(), and set operations.

Lexe: Package a Node App into a Single Executable — Node actually has a mechanism for creating single executable applications and there are numerous other tools to do it, but Lexe takes the approach of using Amazon’s lightweight LLRT engine to make binaries of under 10MB in size. Note, however, "Lexe is not a drop-in replacement for Node.js. It only supports a subset of Node.js APIs."

Prisma ORM 6.6.0 Released — Introduces a new prisma-client generator that’s more flexible and comes with ESM support, plus a preview of an MCP server to let AI agents and tools manage Postgres.

Chrono 2.8: A Natural Language Date Parser — Give it a string like “today”, “last Friday”, “2 weeks from now”, or even an entire date and time, and it’ll come up with a date object to suit.