A Practical Guide to Llama Stack for Node Developers

Red Hat’s Node team has been digging deep into LLM coding in recent months, and now shares its discoveries in using Meta’s Llama Stack (not to be confused with their Llama LLM) – it’s a unified set of APIs for working with numerous parts of the modern LLM-powered stack including models, evals, RAG, tool calling, etc. - https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/02/practical-guide-llama-stack-nodejs-developers

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How the Node Team Makes Node.js Downloads Reliable

I’m sure most of us rely on just clicking and downloading Node.js (or having a package manager or CI process do it) and it Just Works™. Turns out there’s a lot going on behind the scenes to keep Node.js quick and easy to download and this tells the full story of an operation that serves up over 3 petabytes(!) of traffic a month. - https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/making-nodejs-downloads-reliable

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Could JavaScript Have Synchronous Await?

Our favorite JavaScript doctor explores the idea of a synchronous await to erase the divide between sync and async code, explains why it’s enticing, and digs into why performance hits and concurrency headaches make it impractical. - https://2ality.com/2025/03/sync-await.html

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How to Easily Reproduce a Flaky Test in Playwright - https://www.charpeni.com/blog/how-to-easily-reproduce-a-flaky-test-in-playwright

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Unstructured-ish DOCX Parsing in Node - https://nguyenhuythanh.com/posts/unstructured-ish-docx-parsing/

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NestJS Email System Design: A Professional Guide to SendGrid and Mailgun - https://medium.com/@amitgal45/building-a-scalable-email-architecture-with-nestjs-sendgrid-and-mailgun-part-2-4beae52b46c3

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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 React apps atop Fastify. - https://hire.jonasgalvez.com.br/2025/apr/9/fastify-speed/

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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. - https://gethopp.app/blog/tauri-vs-electron

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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. - https://waspdev.com/articles/2025-04-06/features-that-every-js-developer-must-know-in-2025

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NPM Security Best Practices - https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/NPM_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html

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Debugging JavaScript Memory Leaks in Bun  - https://bun.sh/blog/debugging-memory-leaks

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Optimizing Node Performance with V8 GC Optimization

Matteo recently ▶️ gave a talk at dotJS about Node’s memory usage and decided to write it up into a blog post too. Matteo notes that high memory usage doesn’t necessarily mean you have a memory leak, explains how V8’s garbage collector works, and how you can tune things specifically for your own use case. - https://blog.platformatic.dev/optimizing-nodejs-performance-v8-memory-management-and-gc-tuning

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Microsoft Warns About Node.js' Role in Modern Malware

Microsoft’s security team is observing a sharp increase in the use of Node.js to deliver malware and other malicious payloads. This post digs into a couple of examples and what's going on behind the scenes. - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/15/threat-actors-misuse-node-js-to-deliver-malware-and-other-malicious-payloads/

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The Best Node.js Observability Tools in 2025

A comparison of seven approaches - https://nodesource.com/blog/nodejs-observability-tools-2025

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The Node.js Test CI Security Incident Explained

The Node.js project recently experienced a critical security incident with its test CI infrastructure. Attackers exploited a flaw in the Jenkins pipeline and this post goes into detail about how it came about and was resolved. - https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/march-2025-ci-incident

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Giving V8 a Heads-Up: Faster Startup with Explicit Compile Hints

Not Node specific but a look at a V8 optimization that may become relevant in time. Explicit Compile Hints let you direct V8 to eagerly compile specific files as a way to speed up startup. It ships with Chrome 136. - https://v8.dev/blog/explicit-compile-hints

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A Decade of Impact: How Our npm Packages Hit 1 Billion Downloads and Shaped JavaScript

A bold title for sure, but with a neat story behind it.  - https://forwardemail.net/en/blog/docs/how-npm-packages-billion-downloads-shaped-javascript-ecosystem

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NestJS TypeORM and Multi-Tenancy

Not so different from any other ordinary type of project, multi-tenancy is a software architecture that has been in place for quite a while, and as with any other approach, there are pros and cons. In this article, I plan to walk you through a simple solution I implemented to tackle basic architecture inside the universe of the NestJS framework with TypeORM. - https://medium.com/nestjs-ninja/nestjs-typeorm-and-multi-tenancy-a7f6176e8319

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Real-Time Data Processing with Node.js, TypeScript, and Apache Kafka

Imagine orchestrating a symphony where each instrument… - https://readmedium.com/real-time-data-processing-with-node-js-typescript-and-apache-kafka-24a53f887326

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Koa 3.0: The Expressive HTTP Middleware Framework

Koa first appeared over a decade ago as a ‘next-generation’ Web framework that shared some of the lineage (and team) of Express.js, but leaning on more modern JavaScript features and ideas of the time. While Express has been making a comeback recently, Koa has progressed too and offers a compelling alternative. - https://koajs.com/

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