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RAG vs Agentic RAG: When to Use Which in HazelJS
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HazelJS Team
3/13/2026

RAG vs Agentic RAG: When to Use Which in HazelJS

A practical comparison of standard RAG and Agentic RAG in HazelJS. Learn what problems each solves, when to choose which, and how to get started with backlinks to npm and docs.

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Feature Flags with One Decorator: Introducing @hazeljs/feature-toggle
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HazelJS Team
3/9/2026

Feature Flags with One Decorator: Introducing @hazeljs/feature-toggle

Introducing @hazeljs/feature-toggle — decorator-first feature flags for HazelJS. Protect routes with @FeatureToggle, branch in code with FeatureToggleService, and seed from env. No external SDK.

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Introducing @hazeljs/payment: One API, Any Provider
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HazelJS Team
3/8/2026

Introducing @hazeljs/payment: One API, Any Provider

Multi-provider payment integration for HazelJS — Stripe first, with one API for checkout, customers, subscriptions, and webhooks. Add PayPal or custom gateways without changing your code.

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HazelJS First Alpha Release
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HazelJS Team
3/8/2026

HazelJS First Alpha Release

The first alpha of the HazelJS ecosystem is here: modular, TypeScript-first packages for AI-native applications—core, AI, agent, RAG, memory, flow, and more. Try it and share your feedback.

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High-Performance Microservices with @hazeljs/grpc
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HazelJS Team
2/22/2026

High-Performance Microservices with @hazeljs/grpc

Build gRPC servers in HazelJS with decorator-based RPC handlers. Type-safe, high-performance service-to-service communication with full DI integration.

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HazelJS v0.2.0-beta.27: PDF-to-Audio, Logging, and Reliability
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HazelJS Team
2/17/2026

HazelJS v0.2.0-beta.27: PDF-to-Audio, Logging, and Reliability

Physical file storage for PDF-to-audio, summary-only mode, configurable logging (LOG_ENABLED, LOG_PACKAGE), and BullMQ improvements for long-running jobs.

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Turn PDFs into Audiobooks with @hazeljs/pdf-to-audio
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HazelJS Team
2/16/2026

Turn PDFs into Audiobooks with @hazeljs/pdf-to-audio

Convert PDF documents to high-quality audio with OpenAI TTS. Async job queue, AI summaries, summary-only mode, and CLI support—all in a single package.

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AI-Powered Ops: Jira, Slack, and Incident Triage with @hazeljs/ops-agent
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HazelJS Team
2/13/2026

AI-Powered Ops: Jira, Slack, and Incident Triage with @hazeljs/ops-agent

Introducing @hazeljs/ops-agent — an AI-powered DevOps assistant that creates Jira tickets, posts to Slack, and coordinates incidents through natural language. Built on the HazelJS Agent Runtime with built-in Jira and Slack adapters.

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HazelJS Beta: Why We Built It — Design, Purpose & Benefits
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HazelJS Team
2/12/2026

HazelJS Beta: Why We Built It — Design, Purpose & Benefits

A different kind of framework announcement. Why we built HazelJS — AI-native, modular, TypeScript-first. Includes npm package links, design principles, and real use cases for @hazeljs/core, @hazeljs/ai, @hazeljs/agent, @hazeljs/rag, and more.

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Event-Driven Applications with the HazelJS Kafka Module
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HazelJS Team
2/12/2026

Event-Driven Applications with the HazelJS Kafka Module

Build event-driven applications with @hazeljs/kafka — decorator-based consumers, producers, and lightweight stream processing pipelines for enrichment, filtering, and transformation.

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Building Production Microservices: API Gateway, Resilience & Service Discovery with HazelJS
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HazelJS Team
2/9/2026

Building Production Microservices: API Gateway, Resilience & Service Discovery with HazelJS

A deep dive into building production-grade microservice architectures using @hazeljs/gateway for API routing, canary deployments & version routing, @hazeljs/resilience for circuit breakers, retries & bulkheads, and @hazeljs/discovery for service registration, load balancing & health checks.

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HazelJS v0.2.0-beta.16: Supercharged CLI, 21 Generators & Interactive Scaffolding
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HazelJS Team
2/8/2026

HazelJS v0.2.0-beta.16: Supercharged CLI, 21 Generators & Interactive Scaffolding

The biggest CLI update yet — 21 code generators, interactive project scaffolding with package selection, dry-run mode, CRUD resource generation, and dedicated generators for every HazelJS package including Auth, Cache, Cron, RAG, and Discovery.

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Production Agent Runtime: Build Stateful AI Agents That Actually Work
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HazelJS Team
12/16/2025

Production Agent Runtime: Build Stateful AI Agents That Actually Work

Stop building chatbots. Start building production-grade AI agents with stateful execution, tool orchestration, memory integration, and human-in-the-loop workflows. See real examples of support agents, sales agents, and multi-agent systems.

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Beyond Chatbots: Building Self-Improving AI Agents with Agentic RAG
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HazelJS Team
12/15/2025

Beyond Chatbots: Building Self-Improving AI Agents with Agentic RAG

Discover how Agentic RAG and Production Agent Runtime transform AI from simple chatbots into autonomous, self-improving agents that plan, reflect, adapt, and learn—all with a few decorators.

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Building Context-Aware AI with the HazelJS Memory System
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HazelJS Team
12/13/2025

Building Context-Aware AI with the HazelJS Memory System

Discover how to build intelligent, context-aware AI applications with conversation tracking, entity memory, semantic search, and RAG integration using the new Memory System in @hazeljs/rag.

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HazelJS Core v0.2: Production-Ready with Graceful Shutdown & Health Checks
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HazelJS Team
12/9/2025

HazelJS Core v0.2: Production-Ready with Graceful Shutdown & Health Checks

Major stability improvements including memory leak fixes, graceful shutdown, health monitoring, and performance optimizations that make HazelJS truly production-ready.

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API Documentation with HazelJS Swagger Module
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HazelJS Team
12/8/2025

API Documentation with HazelJS Swagger Module

Learn how to auto-generate OpenAPI docs and interactive explorers for your HazelJS backend.

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Getting Started with HazelJS CLI
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HazelJS Team
12/3/2025

Getting Started with HazelJS CLI

A step-by-step guide to using the HazelJS CLI for scaffolding and managing your projects.

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Introducing HazelJS: The Next-Gen JavaScript Runtime
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HazelJS Team
12/1/2025

Introducing HazelJS: The Next-Gen JavaScript Runtime

Discover the vision and technology behind HazelJS, a blazing fast, secure, and developer-friendly JavaScript runtime.

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From Beta to Alpha: The HazelJS Journey in 38 Packages
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HazelJS Team
3/9/2025

From Beta to Alpha: The HazelJS Journey in 38 Packages

Less than a month after our first beta (Feb 12), we shipped our first alpha (Mar 8) with 38 packages. The story so far: AI, agent, RAG, memory, flow, guardrails, and a full stack you compose.

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