~nodeweekly | Issue 579 - What the Node.js team has been discussing lately (10)

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.

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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.

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.

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).

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.