State of Node.js 2025: While You Were Building Frontend...
summary
Overview of major recent Node.js platform changes and useful new features that affect development; review of backend development tooling in the Node ecosystem and which tools deserve attention; comparison of alternative runtimes Bun and Deno, their standout features and why they haven’t replaced Node.js; brief discussion of additional use cases for Node.js beyond web applications.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23Node.js as frontend foundation
- 5:54Node.js myths and stagnation
- 6:38Node.js 2025 releases
- 10:26Node.js 24 features
- 14:19Platform changes
- 17:52HTTP and WebSocket APIs
- 20:22Native SQLite
- 21:45Event Target standardization
- 23:12URL Pattern and env vars
- 25:19CommonJS vs ES modules
- 27:28Test runner and permissions
- 30:39TypeScript support
- 35:36TypeScript details
- 43:12Node.js future
- 46:01Q&A
