Bye bye Revue and other Adventures in Nodeland - Issue #83
Hi Folks, as I’m writing these notes, Twitter is laying off people and promising to close Revue by the end of the year. This will be the last email on the platform until I can transfer my newsletter to a new home! Hopefully, you’ll be receiving a newsletter next Monday!
Announcements
Last week we shipped Platformatic v0.5.0, check out the announcement blog post:
We are removing fetch()
experimental warning in the next Node.js release!
Node.js dropped a few new Security releases.
- X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow (High) (CVE-2022-3602)
- X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow (High) (CVE-2022-3786)
- DNS rebinding in –inspect via invalid octal IP address (Medium) (CVE-2022-43548)
- X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow (High) (CVE-2022-3602)
- X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow (High) (CVE-2022-3786)
- DNS rebinding in –inspect via invalid octal IP address (Medium) (CVE-2022-43548)
Training
My friend Erick Wendel has started a new training on Node.js streams. It’s one of the most complex topics in Node.js and you’ll learn it from one of the best training in Node.js, check it out:
Releases
- mercurius v11.3.0 adds typings for the new GraphiQL configuration and fixes a crash in gateway mode.
- fastify-sandbox v0.9.0 allows to load ESM modules without touching the filesystem. v0.9.1 fixes Windows support. v0.9.2 refined the technique further.
- @fastify/websocket v7.1.1 fixes a bad crash with Websocket
- @fastify/swagger-ui v1.2.0 adds the transformSpecification option.
- @fastify/early-hints v1.0.0 basic implementation of early hints.
- @fastify/http-proxy v8.3.0 adds support for getUpstream for WebSockets.
- point-of-view v7.1.2 decorate reply with locals and add on request hook to default to empty object.
- @fastify/vite v3.0.3 fixes an assignment to const
Articles I found interesting
At Next.js Conf, Vercel announced a new bundling tool: Turbopack. However, they claimed that their tool was 10x faster than Vite. You should read the response from Evan You.
Remix was bought by Shopify! It’s great news for the folks trying to make a living out of building open source tools. Congrats to the team!