Node JS

Node JS

Let's start with the original problem Historically, npm relied on classic tokens: long-lived, broadly scoped credentials that could persist indefinitely. If stolen, attackers could directly publish malicious versions to the author's packages (no publicly verifiable source code needed). This made npm a prime vector for supply-chain attacks. Over time, numerous real-world incidents demonstrated this point. Shai-Hulud, Sha1-Hulud, and chalk/debug are examples of recent, notable attacks.

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Package validation is the process of verifying that your library is correctly structured, configured, and ready to be consumed by others before you publish it. It's not about checking whether your logic works. That's what tests are for. It's about making sure your package metadata, entry points, module formats, and published files all line up so that consumers can install and use it without unexpected runtime errors.

Observability in serverless environments can be challenging, but AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) simplifies this by providing a standardized, vendor-neutral way to collect and export telemetry. ADOT allows you to leverage industry-standard OpenTelemetry APIs to instrument your applications without being locked into a single observability backend. The challenge with containerized Lambdas is that they do not support standard Lambda Layers. Since ADOT is typically deployed as a layer for Lambda functions, we need an alternative way to get the telemetry agent into our execution environment.

If you've recently upgraded to Debian 13 ("Trixie") or a newer version of Ubuntu and suddenly started seeing security warnings when running apt update (or apt update --audit), don't worry. You didn't do anything wrong. This is a side effect of a broader security change across modern Linux distributions. SHA-1 signatures are being deprecated, and repositories that still rely on them may now trigger warnings or audits. What changed? We've rotated our GPG keys to SHA-512 and re-signed our repositories to align with modern security standards, using Sequoia-PGP. In short: Stronger signatures Better compatibility with modern OS policies No more GPG warnings for supported versions

Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention. No, this is not another rant about npm's security issues. Abstraction is the cornerstone of modern software engineering. Reusing logic and building higher-level solutions from lower-level building blocks is what makes all the technological wonders around us possible. Imagine if every time anyone wrote a calculator they also had to reinvent floating-point arithmetic and string encoding!

Bun, the fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime, has released version 1.3, marking its biggest release yet with comprehensive full-stack development capabilities, unified database APIs, and performance improvements across the runtime. Bun 1.3 introduces zero-configuration frontend development with built-in hot module replacement and React Fast Refresh support. Developers can now run HTML files directly with Bun, which automatically handles JavaScript, CSS, and React transpilation and bundling.

Deno 2.6, the latest version of the TypeScript, JavaScript, and WebAssembly runtime, adds a tool, called dx, to run binaries from NPM and JSR (JavaScript Registry) packages. The update to the Node.js rival was announced December 10; installation instructions can be found at docs.deno.com. Current users can upgrade by running the deno upgrade command in their terminal.