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fs.promises.readFile is 40% slower than fs.readFile

story by lopkeny12ko · 2023-09-27 · 0 comments

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Doc: Remove Anonrig from Performance Initiative

story by madmax108 · 2023-09-14 · 0 comments

Fun fact - I added a pretty feature complete WS connection in Node core ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/src/inspector_socke... ) 7 years ago (it is well-tested - every debug/profiling session goes through it). There's no public…

comment by euos · 2023-08-18 · in Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/48890 provides the relevant context in some comment.

comment by rat9988 · 2023-08-18 · in Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files

…we're still waiting on WebSockets and it's been nearly 10 years . Everyone should read the PR https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/48890 . It doesn't traverse parent directories, it doesn't have good overwrite/merge logic, multiline…

comment by andrew_ · 2023-08-18 · in Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files

…be deprecated and removed?" and his response was "There is no plan to deprecate CommonJS"[0]. 0 - https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/33954#issuecomment-776...

comment by reactus · 2023-06-30 · in CommonJS is hurting JavaScript

…1 - https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-fetch?activeTab=versions 2 - https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/33954#issuecomment-924...

comment by reactus · 2023-06-30 · in CommonJS is hurting JavaScript

…between the OP and hlky it should be no surprise that hlky opted for the "nuclear option" [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/LICENSE

comment by TAForObvReasons · 2023-06-01 · in AI Horde’s AGPL3 hordelib receives DMCA take-down from hlky

…[typescript exports] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/33079 [node.js issues] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acomments-desc+label%3Aesm Only in the from few months ago, tooling support is…

comment by Chyzwar · 2023-05-31 · in ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive (2018)

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Node adds initial support for single executable

story by synergy20 · 2023-02-21 · 0 comments

…to the same library, so who knows what the legality of linking against a GPL lib really is. [0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5608

comment by psacawa · 2023-02-13 · in Ask HN: Have licenses ever stopped you from combining two FOSS programs?

…https://github.com/ulid/spec [1]: https://github.com/ai/nanoid/blob/main/async/index.js#L5 [2]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/api/crypto.md#c... [3]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.htm... [4]:…

comment by sgarland · 2023-02-09 · in Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

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Node.js is changing its default url parser

story by yagiznizipli · 2023-02-04 · 1 comment

…on SO, but this only took me a couple of minutes of digging and I don't work with node. git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git grep -E -A 1 -R "Add(Option|Alias)" node/src/node_options.cc There may be options I've missed because I…

comment by b5n · 2023-01-27 · in Natural language is the lazy user interface

Node: https://github.com/nodejs/node React: https://github.com/facebook/react Vimium: https://github.com/philc/vimium If you want more, here is probably a good place to start: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...

comment by mastermojo · 2023-01-26 · in Ask HN: Why are so many PHP projects moving to Node?

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Added in Node main: buffer isAscii method

story by mariuz · 2023-01-25 · 0 comments

…that it relies too much on JavaScript rather than C++ in hot paths?[2] [1] https://bun.sh/ [2] https://github.com/nodejs/node

comment by nequo · 2023-01-19 · in Bun v0.5

…This affects all packages that have icu as a dependency, one of them being Node.js. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/37271 I discovered this the hard way when some code malfunctioned shortly after daylight savings time kicked in.

comment by vlasky · 2023-01-12 · in Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)

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Simdutf provides a faster way of providing utf8 operations with SIMD in Node.js

story by mariuz · 2023-01-06 · 0 comments

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/44186

comment by throwaway0asd · 2022-12-03 · in Exploring competitive features in Node.js v18 and v19

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Node.js 19.0.0

story by NiekvdMaas · 2022-10-18 · 0 comments

…fill those requirements reasonably? https://docs.github.com/en/discussions An example of this - https://github.com/nodejs/node/discussions

comment by shagie · 2022-09-14 · in Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations

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Accessing an ESM import variable is 10x slower than CJS

story by jimmy2020 · 2022-08-19 · 0 comments

…I could drop support for everything but Firefox. For example, Promise.race() leaks memory in V8: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17469#issuecomment-685... Another issue I ran into recently is that `Symbol.for(str)` will cause the…

comment by binrec · 2022-08-08 · in Firefox Loses Users and Websites

…commits could have been tampered with during this timeframe. What about release artifacts? [1]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commits/main

comment by zwass · 2022-06-16 · in GitHub waited 3 months to notify about potential compromise

…tps://v8.dev/blog/custom-startup-snapshots ). Node already does this for some of its core libraries ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17058 ). There are plans to expose this functionality to users so that any application and…

comment by matthews2 · 2022-05-05 · in JavaScript Containers

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Node.js v18 Released

story by cwaffles · 2022-04-19 · 2 comments

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/35711 Node's working on it.

comment by wwwigham · 2022-03-23 · in Dum: An NPM scripts runner written in Rust

…/nodejs.medium.com/source-maps-in-node-js-482872b56116 - only the 3rd party bit, not the slowness bit https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/41541 - also applicable when not bundling, albiet fewer reprcutions to turning off source maps -…

comment by spion · 2022-03-10 · in First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript

…discussion about it, and it seems caching is being considered (possibly in a web_modules folder). https://github.com/nodejs/node/discussions/36430#discussionc...

comment by lioeters · 2022-03-02 · in Node.js Adds Support for Direct Registry-Less HTTPS Imports

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HTTPS Imports in Node.js

story by janczukt · 2022-02-16 · 0 comments

…imports were a separate conversation, and they're not part of this effort at the very least: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36328#issuecomment-73590... ---- That being said, yes, if there are plans to support dynamic imports, then…

comment by danShumway · 2022-02-11 · in Node.js adds support for direct registry-less HTTPS imports

In terms of feedback, there's an issue thread here covering some points already: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/41920

comment by pimterry · 2022-02-10 · in Node.js adds support for direct registry-less HTTPS imports

…at various stages of maturity. But this feature doesn't move that ball forwards. From the comments: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36328#issuecomment-73603... > It is insecure because there is no signature of the original file.…

comment by rectang · 2022-02-10 · in Node.js adds support for direct registry-less HTTPS imports

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Node.js adds support for direct registry-less HTTPS imports

story by inglor · 2022-02-10 · 114 comments

…and not jest itself at this point. If you are able to nudge this issue that would be fantastic! https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/37648

comment by vjeux · 2022-02-02 · in Tell HN: Nobody at Facebook has worked on Jest for years

…accepts a random very large compiled blob instead of asking for the source file + compilation step? https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ec225392675c92b102d3c...

comment by franciscop · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

Yes, this is a place where Node.js will diverge from the spec see discussion on the fetch PR https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41749#issuecomment-10254...

comment by inglor · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

…is a place the server-side implementation is going to diverge and this was discussed in the PR: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41749#issuecomment-10254...

comment by inglor · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

…calling it fetch. Here is a comment I wrote about it in the tracker during the PR review process https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41749#issuecomment-10257... [1]( https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/27979 )

comment by inglor · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

…You can get it by building from master: ``` # there is more details in building.md git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node cd node # may need to pass --openssl-no-asm ./configure make -j12 ./out/Release/node --experimental-fetch ```…

comment by inglor · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

…adding a bad API is vs. asking people for one more `npm install` :) There is more discussion in https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19393 and in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tn_-0S_FG_sla81wFohi8Sc8... a discussion from 2018 we…

comment by inglor · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js

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Fetch API has landed into Node.js

story by yamafaktory · 2022-02-01 · 206 comments

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Node.js is finally going to get the fetch API

story by yamafaktory · 2022-01-29 · 6 comments

…Really curious to hear how other folks are doing local HTTPS/HTTP2 setups in node these days. [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3159 [2] https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/11491

comment by lewisl9029 · 2022-01-17 · in Some ways DNS can break

…using node.getenv in hot sections of code and the resulting not understanding what's happening. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3104 When you call out to the sys or libc things are going to happen and you should try and be aware of…

comment by virtue3 · 2022-01-02 · in Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux

On Microsoft Github, in a repository such as https://github.com/nodejs/node press `.` (the full stop key) and it will take you away to github.dev, load Microsoft's VS Code in-browser to view and edit code with VS Code plugins and…

comment by jodrellblank · 2021-12-18 · in I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk (2000) [pdf]

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Node.js 16.x Gallium LTS Released

story by skibz · 2021-10-27 · 0 comments

…written this is, but these are the most used libraries in the JS world by far margin: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/lib

comment by capableweb · 2021-10-25 · in To learn a new language, read its standard library

…out the HTTP library they use turns the HTTP method into an enum, so only a subset is supported ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/d798de1c653efa5ec0015d44... ). This restriction only exists in their HTTP/1 library, their HTTP/2 library…

comment by jaffathecake · 2021-10-15 · in How to win at CORS