'Twas the Node before Christmas...

🗓️ Today we're taking a look back over some of the big stories and links that got you clicking this year. Also, Node Weekly will be moving to Thursdays in January 2026, as part of a reshuffle for many of our newsletters . __ Your editor, Peter Cooper This is our final issue of the year, with a focus on looking back at what happened with Node in 2025, as well as the most popular items readers enjoyed. First, though, we do have a few items of news: 💡 Deno 2.6 was also released with a new npx -like tool called dx to run binaries from npm and JSR packages, a deno audit tool for identifying vulnerabilities in dependencies, and yet more Node.js compatibility enhancements. CERN Upgrades Its Data Stack: Here’s the Database Behind It - The NextGen Archiver at CERN depends on high-performance ingestion and fast analytics. Discover why TimescaleDB beat pure PostgreSQL and legacy systems with superior throughput, 7-10x compression, and dramatically faster queries. Tiger Data SECURITY RELEASES: The expected December 15 Node.js releases have been bumped back to this Thursday, December 18. New versions of the 25.x, 24.x, 22.x, and 20.x release lines are expected to fix a handful of security vulnerabilities. MONGOOSE: Valeri Karpov gives us an update on what's new in Mongoose 9.0 , the MongoDB object modeling library for Node. ⚙️ pnpm 10.26 has landed with stricter security defaults for git-hosted dependencies, allowBuilds for granular script permissions, and a new setting to block exotic transitive dependencies. The top items of the year based upon the aggregated number of clicks by readers, whether in email, on the Web, or through our RSS feed: 3. Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025 - Halfway through the year, Ashwin reminded us of various features the modern Node environment provides us, including ES modules, built-in Web APIs, the test runner, watch mode, the permission model, import maps, and more. Ashwin 4. Node.js Testing Best Practices - A detailed guide to modern testing in Node from a group of developers who know all about it. Goldberg, Salomon, and Gluskin 6. ⚙️ Node Modules Inspector - A tool that runs pnpm inside your browser , “installs” a package, then analyzes its dependencies. Anthony Fu 8. The Many, Many, Many JavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade - A fantastic, well-researched look at the myriad of JavaScript runtimes and engines both past and present, from mainstream picks like Node and Bun, to cloud platforms and more obscure ‘honorable mentions’. A perfect way to round out your knowledge of JavaScript’s runtime story. Whatever, Jamie 🗓️ Node.js in 2025: Month by Month JANUARY - We start and end the year in the same place, with the ability of Node being able to run TypeScript being new early in the year, and now ending the year with Node.js v24.12.0 (LTS) making it stable in an LTS release. We also got a major update on progress with Express.js. NodeBB v4.0 was released too. FEBRUARY - TypeScript 5.8 was...

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