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 - https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai

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express-generator-typescript: An Express.js + TypeScript App Generator

Creates the boilerplate for a TypeScript-powered Express.js app. Now uses Express.js 5. - https://github.com/seanpmaxwell/express-generator-typescript

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Implement AI Safeguards with Node.js and Llama Stack

Llama Stack is Meta’s framework for building AI apps in Node, Python, Swift or Kotlin. - https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/28/implement-ai-safeguards-nodejs-and-llama-stack

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Managing Feature Flags in Express with Trunker

Trunker is middleware for Express for implementing feature flags. - https://blog.migliorelli.dev/posts/managing-feature-flags-in-express-js-with-trunker

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Building a Linux Electron App

Electron is cross-platform, but there are still platform specific quirks to be aware of. - https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-05-29-building-a-linux-electron-app/

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Production-Grade Logging in Node.js with Pino - https://www.dash0.com/guides/logging-in-node-js-with-pino

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OpenAI Client 5.x: Use OpenAI's Models from Node

The latest version of OpenAI’s official JavaScript library for its various APIs now has support for all its latest models and the Realtime API (v5.0 changelog). It also supports Deno and Bun. - https://github.com/openai/openai-node

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How to Choose the Transport Protocol for Your NestJS Microservice

NestJS, a progressive framework for building… - https://blog.stackademic.com/how-to-choose-the-transport-protocol-for-your-nestjs-microservice-a4c9ef1cacd6

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PSA: Beware of End-of-Life Node.js Versions

Matteo Collina notes the Node.js ecosystem is “at a critical juncture”, with v18 and earlier now ‘End-of-Life’. He breaks down what that really means for users of legacy versions, and why you should skip Active LTS v20 and leap straight to v22 for maximum future-proofing. If you have to stay on older versions, though, Matteo shares an option to consider. - https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/node-18-eol-support

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Node v24.2.0 (Current) Released

import.meta.main is a new boolean value available in ES modules that tells you if the current module was the entry point of the current process (so you could run specific code only if a module is run directly, say). Support for HTTP/2 priority signalling has also been removed from nghttp2. - https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.2.0

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Native Hot Module Reloading in Node via Module Hooks

A clever use of module hooks to implement ‘hot module’ functionality natively and efficiently. - https://immaculata.dev/blog/native-nodejs-hmr.html

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Unpacking Config and Environment Variables in Node

A blog post recapping a recent session led by Liran Tal about the trickiness, and some best practices around, working with configuration and env variables in Node. - https://blog.platformatic.dev/stop-losing-sleep-over-nodejs-config-heres-how-to-get-it-right

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Drop in OAuth for Your MCP Server

Agentic systems and internal services need more than API keys. Scalekit’s MCP Auth module is a drop-in solution that issues short-lived, scoped tokens to isolate access per org and simplify traceability. - https://docs.scalekit.com/guides/mcp/oauth/

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A Way to Handle Postgres Migrations in Node

A recommendation for node-pg-migrate. - https://blog.bitexpert.de/blog/migrations-with-node-pg-migrate

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Building APIs with Node.js and gRPC  -https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/building-apis-with-node-js-and-grpc/

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Using SQL in Node with Sequelize  - https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/11/using-sql-in-nodejs-with-sequelize.html

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Nest.js and Modular Architecture: Principles and Best Practices

Discover How to Better Organize Your Modules by… - https://levelup.gitconnected.com/nest-js-and-modular-architecture-principles-and-best-practices-806c2cb008d5

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Node.js Moves Toward Stable TypeScript Support with Amaro 1.0

Amaro is Node’s official way to strip types out of TypeScript code so that Node can run it (though you can also use Amaro as a library, if you prefer). The 1.0 release is a key milestone on the way to moving TypeScript support in Node.js from experimental to stable in a release later this year. Sarah rounds up the entire story. - https://socket.dev/blog/node-js-moves-toward-stable-typescript-support-with-amaro-1-0

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Using await at the Top Level in ES Modules

Top-level await is supported in all modern browsers and in Node.js (beyond v16) in .mjs files or .js files specified as modules. - https://allthingssmitty.com/2025/06/16/using-await-at-the-top-level-in-es-modules/

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The Best JavaScript Web Scraping Libraries

A few options to consider including Crawlee, Cheerio, and using browsers from Node.  - https://blog.apify.com/best-javascript-web-scraping-libraries/

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