Last week was Node Summit in San Francisco, meaning that quite a few of the major users of Node.js centralized in a single location for a few days. It was an interesting week, and as such things seemingly slowed down a bit. As always, though, there were a few interesting things that happened in the project!

Here’s a quick recap of updates in the various Node.js Working Groups, Teams, and Strategic Initiatives from the past week:

What’s New in the Node.js Project

• The i18n Initiative is currently working on building out a module that enables importing of translations, one of the key pieces of infrastructure for the project.

• Planning has already begun for the Node.js Collaborator’s Summit following JS Interactive in Vancouver, with this year’s Summit being open to community members who are interested in participating in the project at a deeper level.

• The node-chakracore team has released node-chakracore v10.6.0 – always exciting to see new releases of the project!

• The Release WG is actively discussing the possibility of shipping an npm-less version of Node.js, most recently prompted by efforts from the Docker WG to actually ship a docker image that doesn’t have npm.

Awesome Articles, Links, and Resources

• Pax.js – a rust-based JavaScript build tool.

• Hypernova – Server-side rendering for JavaScript views from Airbnb.

• Why the New V8 is so Damn Fast by Thorsten Lorenz

• ndb – an improved development debugging experience, from the DevTools team

• The Age of "Node.js and…" by Tierney Cyren

One Last Thing...

If you find any awesome Node.js or JavaScript things over the next week (or beyond!), never hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter at @NodeSource to share and get it included in Need to Node - our DMs are open if you don’t want to share publicly!