What's new in the Node-API and node-addon-api world? - 2024 version

[legendecas]

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.

[legendecas]

node-addon-api v8.0.0 released this week.

[vmoroz]

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]

NativeScript team considers using it to integrate with React Native.

I gave several demos of this integration for React Native on iOS, on Twitter:

• Four examples of accessing non-UI-thread functionality from the iOS SDK, as presented in the React Native Japan meetup.
• A proof-of-concept of accessing the UI thread to show a UIKit alert.
• Creating a virtual list using UIKit.
• Tokenising Japanese text by calling Intl.Segmenter on JavaScriptCore from Hermes.

[shirakaba]

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]

SWIG starting from version 4.2.0 introduced 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]

In the lsta 6 months node-addon-api has the same download of nan:

https://npmtrends.com/nan-vs-node-addon-api

[NickNaso]

Article about Node-API (ex N-API) Compile and run C in JavaScript https://bun.sh/blog/compile-and-run-c-in-js