A blog about code and whatever else I might be thinking about.
The Node.js project has been working on implementations of standard web platform APIs, such as the WHATWG URL parser, AbortController, EventTarget, TextEncoder, Web Crypto API and more. The latest effort underway is to implement support for the Web Streams API...
The episodes where we talk to Charlie and Gil
Node.js offers powerful new capabilities for generating random UUIDs and random prime numbers.
The AbortController and AbortSignal APIs are quickly becoming the standard mechanism for canceling asynchronous operations in the Node.js core API...
The one where we talk to Yoni on the importance of comprehensive integration testing.
The one where we talk to Rob about Javascript and TypeScript
Several years ago, I was called out by a customer to help them resolve some performance issues they were having in their Node.js application. They were experiencing massive event loop blocking issues in their server, getting a whole 5 requests per second — and, in one extreme case, an event loop delay of over one minute...
The one where we talk to Danielle Adams about buildpacks
The one where Matteo and I talk to Kent about JavaScript Training
Although the HMAC-based Key Derivation Function (HKDF) is not new it is starting to gain prominence in more types of applications and systems.
The one where Matteo and I talk to Liz about JavaScript communities
The one where we talk about the next 25 years of JavaScript
The one where we talk to Mikael about JavaScript
The one where we talk to Anthony on data visualization
The Node.js project has been working on implementations of standard web platform APIs, such as the WHATWG URL parser, AbortController, EventTarget, TextEncoder and more. The latest effort underway is to implement support for the Web Cryptography API. Here, we dig into some of the details of that new implementation and show a little of what it will enable in Node.js...
The one where we talk to Allessandro about Node.js and Voice over IP
The one where we talk to Kenigbolo about documentation
The one where we talk to the Covid Green Team
The one where Matteo and I talk to Ramón about modern web APIs
The one where Matteo and I talk to Laurie about Gatsby
The one where Matteo and I talk to Litan about Open Source
The one where Matteo and I talk to Philipp about Temporal
Piscina is a worker thread pool implementation for Node.js