Node.js Digest #22: Deno vs Oracle, Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results, Porffor and AWS Lambda, TypeScript 5.9

Hello, community! The Avenga team is here with our regular monthly digest of the most interesting news from the world of Node.js and everything related to server-side JavaScript. That's right — now we're also available in video format.

A Few Quick News Items

• Vercel Functions now support fetch;
• ESLint is going to be multithreaded, and you can read about the main challenges of this change on the official blog.

Something to Read

• A bit about how Porffor, which we mentioned in previous digests, can be run on AWS Lambda.
• Sometimes a tiny problem can trigger a cascading effect and lead to the deletion of an entire database. Sounds scary, but that's exactly what happened with Shopify.
• It might seem incredible, but in 2025 many people still don't understand how Promises work. In various interviews, I keep seeing that not everyone understands much beyond the basic methods and usage patterns. Matt Smith tries to solve this problem by explaining how Promise.any() works in his blog.
• And here the same Matt Smith writes about the logical assignment operator and how to work with it.
• Josh Comeau in his blog talks not only about what a Promise is and how to use it, but also about how to create your own Promise.
• Stuart Dotson shares their experience of using type stripping in Node.js.
• Liran Tal talks about building an MCP server with integration and usage in LLMs.
• Some thoughts on how Rust, TypeScript, and Python will become the main trifecta of programming languages for software development.

Something to Watch

• An interview with Jarred Sumner, where Bun gets a bit overhyped, but it's still interesting despite that.
• Joshua Lochner talks about Transformer.js. Who could do it better than the author himself?
• Theo Browne on the many server-side JS runtimes.
• Rust is riding the hype wave just as much as AI right now. But is it really worth rushing to rewrite everything in this not-so-easy language?
• A brief overview of the main new features in TypeScript 5.9.
• If you're just starting out with serverless architecture, this video might be useful and help you choose between Amplify and Serverless.

Updates/Releases

• Runtimes: Node.js v24.7.0, Node.js v22.18.0, Bun v1.2.21, Deno v2.4
• Frameworks: Fastify v5.5,
• Libraries: pnpm v10.15, undici v7.15.0, Prisma v6.14

A Few More Interesting Things

• An article about vibe coding. Specifically, a call to use AI tools properly. It all boils down to a simple message: stop "vibe coding" and finally read the damn code, even if it was written by AI. Blind trust in AI leads to bugs, security holes, and skill degradation.
• A new article on optimizations from Marvin Hagemeister, this time about semver.
• Netflix shares their experience with improvements once again. Even when you already have everything "working great" — you can always rewrite the architecture to make it more complex, but faster.
• An interview with Adam Bender, Principal Software Engineer at Google.
• Birgitta Bockeler on how autonomous modern AI systems can really be.

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