Dear backers,

Happy New Year! We'll maintain this newsletter as a quick monthly recap of how the project is making progress thanks to your donations. For this first edition, we have a few news:

In development, I experimented auto-patching native addons to compile correctly, and while it seems promising, we apparently need to get some other things solved. Node.js Mobile React Native needs to take care of the entire pipeline that builds your Node project, and this may include bundling it with esbuild or another tool.

The original maintainer of Node.js Mobile has reappeared with a great PR , and I've been working with him to review it and support iOS correctly.

Another area of interest has been in adding support for minimal internalization APIs (also known as "ICU") in the Node.js Mobile binary. One of the biggest benefits of this would be enabling supporting for debugger tools for Node.js Mobile. I'm favorable to exploring this option, after I'm done with the other tasks.

Once again, thank you for your support, and we hope to keep bringing good news this year!
– staltz