Deno 2.4 Bweets, Next.js Vuln Alert, Modern Node, and Typed Mongo | News | Ep 25

News of the week of June 30, 2025, Deno Bundle is Back in Black in 2.4! We coin the term "Bweet", Deno also gets some non-standard import attributes for text and bytes, OTEL is now stable in Deno, and Next.js has a DoS vulnerability. From the community: we chat about modern Node.js patterns for 2025, NDC Oslo talks are rolling in on YouTube, and strongly type your MongoDB collections!

Chapters

Personal News

• Shure MV7+ Microphone
• Excalibur Playground Prototype is Live (Thanks for the Pong Game Chris K!)
• Playing with Monaco code Editor
• Arch Linux and "Ricing"

News

• Deno 2.4 is released and it's JAM PACKED!
• PSA: For Next.js users: CVE-2025-49826 - Vercel

From the Community

• Node.js LGBTQIA+ Stories: Emelia Smith
  • “The largest change I made to Node.js was splitting up the documentation into multiple files and pages, prior to this change, all the documentation had been on a single large page only.”
• Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025 (kashw1n)
  • Undici Docs
  • Undici Blog Post
• NDC Oslo 2025 Talks are Rolling out
  • A Deep Dive into Advanced TypeScript: A Live Coding Expedition Christian Woerz
  • Keynote CTRL+SHIFT+(BUILD) PAUSE - Laila Bougria
• NPM Specifiers in Node (Deno YouTube)
• Trace Resolution is very handy about type check errors in libraries (@literat.dev)
  • “TIL: Using `tsc --traceResolution` is very handy to get information about why the heck TypeScript is raising an error about the file that should not be part of the library, but it is included during the type check 😅”
• Typing MongoDB Collections in TypeScript (Daniel Perez) 
• From the vault, Feb 2025: Migrating 160,000 Lines of Production Banking JavaScript to TypeScript with Zero Downtime (Ben Howdle)

Cool Stuff

• All things NeoVim, Arch, Hyprland, and tech goodness YouTube Channel Typecraft
• CGI Today
• Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
• LocalFirstConf

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)