Subject: Bundling dependencies; keyword `using`; Intl.DurationFormat; vlt client; Deno npm module specifiers; Node v23.8.0; require(esm); Node.js loader framework; bundler plugins

// Old recommendation:
import React from 'https://esm.sh/react@19';

// New recommendation:
import React from 'npm:react@19';

• Interesting benefit: You can write stand-alone scripts that don’t need a config file to specify package versions.
• As soon as a project has more than one file, you probably want to use an import map – mentioning the package version for each import seems tedious.

• URL Pattern API: currently an import from node:url, available as a global in Node.js 24.
• Support for the zstd compression algorithm
• “Threads created by the Node.js process are now named to improve the debugging experience. Worker threads will use the name option that can be passed to the Worker constructor.”

“The long-standing divide between CommonJS (CJS) and ECMAScript Modules (ESM) in the Node.js ecosystem just took a major step toward resolution. Thanks to the incredible efforts of Joyee Cheung, require(esm) has been backported to Node.js 20.”

“This change means that when Node.js 18 reaches end-of-life (EOL) in April 2025, library maintainers can finally drop their CJS builds and ship ESM-only packages with confidence.”