🥳 New @small-web/kitten (Kitten globals) release.

• Improved type information.
• Now plays nice with tsconfig.json and tsc.
• Adds `rawBody` to `KittenRequest`.

This is not really a breaking change (in that it won’t break your apps) but I’m releasing it as a major version update so as not to surprise you if you notice the type information is different (more detailed than before).

To update in your kitten apps:
npm install @small-web/kitten@7

For more information on how to use this module, see the Kitten Type Safety tutorial:
https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/type-safety/

Full change log:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/globals/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#7-0-0-2026-03-19

Enjoy!

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RE: https://mean.engineer/@indutny/116245283352156779

- Opens pull request with 19k added lines of code written with Claude Code.
- Claims he reviewed them all.

Even if that were true and even if he hadn't used any AI, I would shout that guy out of the room.

Pray that this PR doesn't get merged.

#JavaScript #nodejs #LLM

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release

• Adds `rawBody` to non-multipart POST requests.

This property, which is a Buffer, is necessary if you want to verify signatures (e.g., for webhooks).

I had to fork express-busboy as they already ruled out adding it. The fork (@small-web/kitten-busboy²) also allowed me to type the middleware extension point for Polka³ instead of Express (Kitten uses Polka) so that’s one @ts-ignore removed (hey, dev is a string of little wins) :)

Change log: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2026-03-18

Caught a bug and feeling a little under the weather at the moment (nothing major, mom and dad – no need to worry) so apologies if I’m not responsive here.

Enjoy!

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¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://codeberg.org/kitten/busboy
³ https://github.com/lukeed/polka

#Kitten #SmallWeb #KittenReleases #busboy #polka #express #bodyParsing #middleware #NodeJS #web #dev

RE: https://mean.engineer/@indutny/116245283352156779

- Opens pull request with 19k added lines of code written with Claude Code.
- Claims he reviewed them all.

Even if that were true and even if he hadn't used any AI, I would shout that guy out of the room.

Pray that this PR doesn't get merged.

#JavaScript #nodejs #LLM