--- title: Best Node.js posts — May 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Node.js posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/nodejs/best-of/2026/05 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/nodejs/best-of/2026/05 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Node.js posts — May 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Node.js posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Node.js — May 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/node-js-node-js-26-0-0-current--xsccfs0nf "Node.js — Node.js 26.0.0 (Current)") Article Node.js · 18w Node.js — Node.js 26.0.0 (Current) Node.js 26.0.0 has been released as the new 'Current' version, with LTS planned for October. Key highlights include the Temporal API enabled by default (a modern replacement for the legacy Date object), V8 engine updated to 14.6 (adding Map.prototype.getOrInsert() and Iterator.concat()), and Undici updated to 8.0.2\. Breaking changes include removal of legacy \_stream\_\* modules, removal of http.Server.prototype.writeHeader(), runtime deprecation of module.register(), and removal of --experimental-transform-types flag. Several crypto API changes are also included, such as unified asymmetric key import and ML-KEM/ML-DSA pkcs8 export format changes. 98 1 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/node-js-node-js-26-2-0-current--babcovtzb "Node.js — Node.js 26.2.0 (Current)") Article Node.js · 16w Node.js — Node.js 26.2.0 (Current) Node.js 26.2.0 (Current) has been released with several notable changes: \`stream.compose\` is now marked stable, \`Temporal.Instant\` support has been added to \`Stats\` and \`BigIntStats\` in the \`fs\` module, and a new \`writeInformation\` method allows sending arbitrary 1xx HTTP status codes. The release also includes numerous crypto improvements (BoringSSL support for ML-DSA, ML-KEM, ChaCha20-Poly1305, AES-KW), multiple stream performance optimizations, QUIC implementation completions, test\_runner fixes including a new tags filter option, and various dependency updates (undici 8.3.0, corepack 0.35.0, sqlite 3.53.1). 78 6 [See all Node.js archives](/sources/nodejs/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/nodejs/best-of/2026/05#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/nodejs/best-of/2026/05","name":"Best Node.js Posts — May 2026","description":"The most upvoted Node.js posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/nodejs/best-of/2026/05#items","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/node-js-node-js-26-0-0-current--xsccfs0nf","name":"Node.js — Node.js 26.0.0 (Current)"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/node-js-node-js-26-2-0-current--babcovtzb","name":"Node.js — Node.js 26.2.0 (Current)"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Node.js","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/nodejs"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/nodejs/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"May 2026"}]}]} ```