Deno 1.21; Node.js 18; interview about Node.js 18; Parcel v2.5.0; faster class instantiation in V8; Test Anything Protocol (TAP) v14

Other highlights:

• Uncaught exceptions are handled like in browsers via "error" events and reportError(error).
• Several improvements in Deno’s Visual Studio Code extension
• deno fmt and deno lint use caches to operate incrementally.
• The Deno.run() API for spawning subprocesses will eventually be replaced by three APIs:
  • The high-level Deno.spawn()
  • The high-level Deno.spawnSync()
  • The low-level Deno.spawnChild()
• Improvements for deno test: better formatting of user output, better errors and stack traces, BDD-style testing, mocking utilities, snapshot testing, FakeTime for time-related tests

• Salaries and daily rates
• Most in-demand technologies and jobs
• Remote work

• Fetch API
• Web Streams API
• Built-in test runner

• Node.js 18, the latest release
• Its most exciting features
• How you can help improve it before it enters long-term support (LTS) on 2022-10-25

• Web Extension manifest v3 support
• Support for __dirname and __filename in Node.js targets
• in expressions with process.env ('someProp' in process.env)
• Bug fixes

New features:

• YAML diagnostic blocks must be valid YAML and indented 2 spaces.
• Subtests provide a way to nest one TAP 14 stream inside another.
• A Pragma provides information to a Harness to control its behavior or configure it in some way. Each Pragma line represents a single boolean switch which can be set to true or false.