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What's new in the Node-API and node-addon-api world? - 2024 version #459
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We use this issue to track/announce what is new on the Node-API front.
We'll discuss at the start of Node-API meetings and capture what's new.
Also feel free to post news that you have so that we can share with the broader community.
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legendecas commentedon Mar 8, 2024
node-addon-api v8.0.0 released this week.
vmoroz commentedon Apr 19, 2024
Hermes team tentatively decided to add support for Node-API to a future version of Static Hermes JavaScript engine.
See the related discussion and the initial PR.
NativeScript team considers using it to integrate with React Native.
shirakaba commentedon Apr 20, 2024
I gave several demos of this integration for React Native on iOS, on Twitter:
Intl.Segmenteron JavaScriptCore from Hermes.shirakaba commentedon Jun 14, 2024
Today I successfully used node-swift to call native macOS APIs via Swift from the Node.js process of an Electron project. It's missing from the node-api-engine-bindings.md documentation, but it seems more recent and more comprehensive than the currently listed swift-napi-bindings.
NickNaso commentedon Jun 28, 2024
SWIG starting from version
4.2.0introduced generator generator targeting Node.js binary stable ABI Node-API.Here an example of a module that uses it https://github.com/mmomtchev/magickwand.js
NickNaso commentedon Sep 13, 2024
In the lsta 6 months
node-addon-apihas the same download ofnan:https://npmtrends.com/nan-vs-node-addon-api
NickNaso commentedon Sep 19, 2024
Article about Node-API (ex N-API) Compile and run C in JavaScript https://bun.sh/blog/compile-and-run-c-in-js