Aligning Node.js with the Web Platform

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Node.js now embeds many browser primitives so same JavaScript can run server and client: implemented new URL is fully spec-compliant and TextEncoder/TextDecoder, EventTarget and AbortController now cancels async ops across fs/net/http, BroadcastChannel, Web Crypto and the Performance API. A work-in-progress Blob exists but Blob is experimental and lacks streaming, and a full Fetch requires WHATWG streams, headers/formdata integration, origin/cors and HTTP cache decisions plus HTTP/1-2-3 negotiation. Undici is the recommended interim HTTP client.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:50The gulf of unsameness
3. 6:10Web Platform APIs
4. 7:05Url API
5. 8:19New URL
6. 9:56Text Encoder
7. 12:30Event Target and abort controller
8. 15:35Browser API
9. 20:00Blob API
10. 27:15Whatwg streams API
11. 28:20Cores
12. 29:33Global States
13. 30:53Wrap up

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