Node Congress 2025
2025-04-17..2025-04-18
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[Node Congress 2021, Node Congress 2022, Node Congress 2023, Node Congress 2024, Node Congress 2025, Node Congress 2026]
who it's for
Node.js developers, full stack JavaScript developers, backend engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, DevOps engineers, security engineers
topics
TypeScript runtime type stripping; Node.js core debugging case studies; WebAssembly at the edge; Node.js and AI integrations; Retrieval-augmented generation in Node.js; Vector databases and embeddings; BullMQ queueing in Node.js; SQLite internals in Node.js; Modern JavaScript test runners; PKCE-based authentication flows; Event-driven architecture patterns; AdonisJS full stack TypeScript
| title | author | length |
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| Thinking Like an Architect | Luca Mezzalira | link |
Remember when software architecture seemed like just boxes and arrows on a whiteboard? In this talk, we'll challenge that view and explore what really matters… | ||
| Modern State of Databases and Which to Choose for the Next App | Julián Duque, Nikolay Matvienko, David Chicaiza | |
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| What's in a Node.js Bug – A Case Study | Anna Henningsen | link |
Anna performs a deep dive into the anatomy of a regression that affected Node.js users in development and production in the past year, and analyzes how it… | ||
| The Path to Native TypeScript | Marco Ippolito | 24m |
Node.js implements a type stripping runtime that erases TypeScript-only syntax by replacing it with whitespace so source locations stay unchanged, using a… | ||
| From Cloud to Edge Computing - Unleashing the Power of Webassembly at the Edge | Alex Casalboni | link |
Discover how WASM at the edge pushes beyond cloud limits, enabling low-latency, secure, and distributed computing. In this talk, we’ll explore Wasm patterns… | ||
| Make Hono work on Node.js | Yusuke Wada | link |
The creator of Hono talks about Hono. Hono is a web framework using only Web Standard APIs and runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Bun. Now, in addition to… | ||
| NodeJS & AI: Building Smarter Applications | Aileen Villanueva Lecuona | link |
Unlock the potential of AI in Node.js applications through practical, real-world implementations. This session demonstrates how to integrate both open-source… | ||
| Dabbling With Deno — Tales From a Web Developer Playing With a New Toy | Phil Hawksworth | link |
After many years and many projects using web technologies, Phil is becoming increasingly excited about changing up some of the tools that are his usual… | ||
| Inside the Engine: How Modern JS Test Runners Work and the Traps They Hide | Yoni Goldberg | link |
Modern test runners like Vitest and Jest wow us with next-level features. Think in-file concurrency, HMR, embedded Chromium, performance benchmarks - you name… | ||
| Using AI as Your Performance Expert in Node.js | Lizz Parody | link |
Have you ever struggled to track performance issues in your Node.js apps? Me too—it can feel like chasing ghosts in your code! That’s why I’m excited to share… | ||
| It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices | Kim Maida | link |
Authorization and authentication open standards have been protecting users, apps, and resources for over a decade. That’s plenty of time for attackers to learn… | ||
| Mastering Node.js for Scalable Application Development | Shivay Lamba, Julián Duque, Nikolay Matvienko, David Chicaiza | |
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| WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers | Oliver Medhurst | link |
We often hear about standards, whether it be web or WinterTC or otherwise, but why are they liked and how do they actually help developers like you? This talk… | ||
| Bull-Ish Your Queues With BullMQ | Luca Del Puppo | link |
Ever faced a situation where you desperately needed a queue, but traditional options were off the table? My team ran into this exact problem. After a lot of… | ||
| What is a Vulnerability and What’s Not? Making Sense of Node.js and Express Threat Models | Ulises Gascón | link |
Security isn’t just about fixing bugs; it’s about understanding the assumptions we make (and avoiding unnecessary panic). In this talk, we’ll dive into the… | ||
| Running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly | Brendan Coll | link |
Many organisations have a lot of Java code. As they adopt newer technologies such as Node.js or Cloudflare Workers, maintaining interoperability with this… | ||
| How to Simplify your Codebase | Tally Barak | link |
Large, legacy codebases often suffer from tangled dependencies, lack of modular boundaries, and monolithic "barrel" files that bundle together many modules… | ||
| The Alleged ‘End’ of Node.js Is Much Ado About Nothing | Paolo Insogna | link |
Despite the exaggerated claims about its decline, Node.js is thriving. Its continued evolution pushes the boundaries of what the modern web can do. We'll start… | ||
| The Hitchiker's Guide to Event Driven Architectures | Julián Duque | link |
Join us on a fun journey through the world of Event-Driven Architectures! We’ll explore Node.js’s event-driven nature, the Event Loop, EventEmitter, Pub/Sub… | ||
| Building a RAG System in Node.js: Vector Databases, Embeddings & Chunking | Alex Korzhikov, Pavlik Kiselev | link |
The workshop covered a wide range of topics including Rack systems, language models, RAG, embedding models, RUG, Longchain, Llama setup, token-based splitting… | ||
| Beyond Buzzwords: Practical Vector Search and RAG for Developers | Shivay Lamba | link |
Shabai's introduction to vector search, vector representation in data, NoSQL databases for vector storage, search techniques like cosine similarity, setting up… | ||
| SQLite in Node.js From Inside Out | Edy Silva | link |
Introduction to SQLite in Node.js, exploring its versatility and performance, understanding the Node SQLite module's synchronous nature, utilizing SQLite's… | ||
| Introducing AdonisJS - Your Gateway to Full-stack TypeScript Applications | Harminder Virk | link |
Today we are going to talk about Adonis.js, a full-stack framework for creating web applications or JSON APIs in TypeScript and Node.js. Adonis.js is… | ||
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