Stage changes for ECMAScript proposals:

• Stage 1: type annotations; Function.prototype.once
• Stage 2: decorator metadata
• Stage 3: Unicode sequence properties for RegExps; character class set operations (union, subtraction, etc.) for RegExps; non-destructive Array methods (.toReversed(), .toSorted(), .toSpliced(), .with()); decorators (excluding metadata)

Features that were added to Node.js in the last 6 months:

• Deeply copying values via structuredClone()
• Various AbortSignal features
• Built-in fetch()
• Importing JSON files
• More Promise-based APIs

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Explains how to use string.localeCompare and Intl.Collator for locale-aware sorting of Arrays of strings – so that accents, umlauts, capitalization, etc. are handled correctly.

This is what tests for the new Node.js test runner look like:

import test from 'node:test';
import * as assert from 'assert/strict';
test('synchronous test', (t) => {
  assert.equal(1, 1);
});
test('asynchronous test', async (t) => {
  assert.equal(1, 1);
});

Feross has been working on something big. He joins Chris and Nick, along with guests Bret Comnes and Mik Lysenko to discuss Socket, what it is, and its focus on the security of the JavaScript supply chain.