Bookmarks (1606)

Trio: Simple Static Site Generation — An ‘almost’ zero-config tool that doesn’t require frameworks or templating languages (you ‘decorate’ your HTML instead – e.g.). It caches every project asset per build, and only generates stale assets when building incrementally, dramatically reducing build times.

ow: Function Argument Validation for Humans — A fluent API to define constraints for function arguments (e.g.ow(input, ow.string.minLength(5))) and get nice error messages if those validations fail.

Backslide: A CLI Tool for Making HTML Presentations with Remark.js — Want to make presentation slides with Markdown and Sass, complete with a live preview server and PDF conversion? Check this out. There’s an example presentation here.

Creating a CRUD API with Node, Sequelize, Postgres and Docker — One of those ‘let’s bring together a variety of ideas’ tutorials.

A Basic Introduction to Server Sent Events — Learn how to use server sent events (SSE) to build unidirectional communication channel between clients and server for real-time apps.

Serverless Nest.js Micro-Services and Integrations without HTTP — You’ve got a Node app, you want to take it serverless.. you use API Gateway and have your Node app spin up an HTTP server and work through that, right? Nope, there’s a more direct way to do it.

Use Node.js with Docker and Docker Compose for a Better Developer Experience — You can bring Node and Docker together to create a more seamless local development environment as demonstrated here.

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👋  RIP: The Official npm.js Blog — The official npm.js blog has been soldiering on despite npm Inc. being acquired by GitHub, but finally the time has come to move release news to the official GitHub blog. End of an era after 7 years and 373 posts!

Announcing TypeScript 4.2 Beta — What’s new? Leading/middle rest elements in tuple types (e.g. let bar: [boolean, ...string[], boolean]), smarter type alias preservation, stricter checks for the in operator, and more.

Amplication: Create Node Applications, Without Coding? — The bold promise is to be able to build a ‘fully functional Node server-side app’ complete with data models and a React-based client in under 5 minutes. There’s an example of the end result here and some Hacker News discussion too.

Simplify Ecommerce App Development with Node.js + Square 💚 — The Square Node.js SDK with TypeScript support makes it easy to build ecommerce apps in Node.js. Start taking payments, manage a product catalog, organize employees, track orders, and more with Square’s APIs. Give it a try in our API explorer.

Get Ready For ESM — ES modules are rapidly becoming a day to day reality for Node.js package maintainers, so spare a thought for Sindre who has about 20 million packages (slight exaggeration!) to his name. Sindre shares some basics on why it’s important, the benefits, and what his plans are.

Ten Best Practices to Containerize Node Web Apps with Docker — Production-grade guidelines for building optimized and secure Node-based Docker images whether for microservices, server-side rendering, or stand alone apps.

Turf.js: Geospatial Analysis for Browsers and Node.js — A collection of modules for doing spatial analysis, working with GeoJSON data, data classification, and more. GitHub repo.

qs: A Query String Parser with Nesting Support — Where ‘query string’ means the string of names and values you might find on the end of a URL.

A Port of Google's V8 Engine to RISC-V — An MVP of a RISC-V64 port of the V8 JavaScript engine. RISC-V is a royalty free, open instruction set architecture that’s still relatively little used but of increasing interest in a world looking more at RISC-oriented systems (such as Arm-based ones).

napi-rs: A Minimal Library for Building Node Addons in Rust — Neon appeared in 2019 as a way to ‘electrify your Node with the power of Rust’ (Rust being an increasingly popular, high performance, safety-first systems language) and napi-rs gives us more of the same with a slightly different take. It supports all recent Node versions, has Apple Silicon support out of the box,...

The January 2021 Node Security Releases — As promised in December, we have new versions of Node all round, including Node 15.5.1, 14.15.4 12.20.1, and 10.23.1. Why? A bug in the TLS implementation mostly, but also a HTTP request header smuggling bug – neither of which you want in your production environments.

Spend Less Time Debugging and More Time Building — Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues. Continually track N+1 database queries, sources of memory bloat, performance abnormalities, and more with Scout APM.

Meow: A Straightforward CLI App Helper — Not a new project but one of Sindre’s projects I hadn’t seen before. It’s simple and straightforward. You define flags, help text, and other features in a single object and it handles all the processing for you.

npm 7.3.0 (and 7.2.0) Released — Two new npm releases dropped in just before Christmas. npm config now supports getting and setting multiple values at once and npm rebuild now accepts paths as an argument.

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Experimenting Producing AVIF Images from Node — AVIF is a new image format that’s not widely supported yet, but with widespread support on the way. Given its many advantages, though, developers are keen to use it. The Sharp module recently added AVIF support too and here’s how it operates.

The Four 'Creational' Design Patterns in Node.js You Should Know — Design patterns are used in numerous scenarios such as for handling object interactions, object design, and also how objects are created which is the focus here. Singleton, Factory, Builder, and Prototype patterns are covered.

How We Built Scalable Spatial Indexing in CockroachDB — Support for spatial data was the most requested feature in the history of CockroachDB. Read about how we built it.

Comparing Emilua to Node.js — Emilua is sort of a Node-a-like for the Lua language. I’m unlikely to use it, but it’s a neat look at a project I was unaware of. Git repo.

▶  How to Cache an API Endpoint with Redis in Node — A rough and ready screen recording that may be helpful to some.

Pino 6.9.0: A Fast 'Very Low Overhead' JSON Logger — There are code samples for using it with Fastify, Express, Hapi, Koa, and more.

CandyMail: Node-Powered Email Automation System — If your app needs email sequences based on user activity, say, this is for you and might save you having to pay for an expensive email automation system. GitHub repo.

OpenMTP: An Advanced Android File Transfer Application for macOS — An interesting example of a full-featured desktop all that uses numerous JavaScript technologies including Node, Electron, and React. Certainly looks better than the official Android transfer app I used to use. Official homepage.

Tutorial: Supercharge Stream Feeds with Algolia & GraphQL — Learn to seamlessly integrate Algolia and Stream Feeds by utilizing GraphQL with Node.js.

New Course: Production-Grade TypeScript — Use the TypeScript language at scale to increase the developer experience and productivity of your teams. Learn to manage even the most ambitious TypeScript projects with confidence and ease.

htmlparser2 6.0.0: A Forgiving HTML and XML Parser — Consumes documents and calls callbacks, but it can generate a DOM as well. There’s a live demo here.

cfonts: Striking Text Banners for the Terminal — If you want to catch everyone’s attention when they install your npm package (please don’t..) this might fit the bill ;-)

Nodesource Brings arm64 Support to its Node Binary Distributions — If you want Node in a package to run on aarch64 with CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Amazon Linux or CloudLinux, NodeSource has what you need.

10 React Security Best Practices — A checklist to help you and your team find and fix security issues in your React applications.

Puppeteer vs Selenium vs Playwright, A Browser Automation Speed Comparison — Spoiler: There are differences in microbenchmarks but in real world scenarios it’s basically a wash. Use whichever suits your use case.

Automatically Generating Social Share Images Serverlessly — This is a perfect use case for a serverless function (on Netlify Functions this time) and a great example of post that pulls together a variety of ideas for a creative end result.

Serverless Node.js You Can Run Anywhere — You may have heard of AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, but OpenFaaS is an interesting open source functions-as-a-service platform you can deploy to your own machines. Here’s how you can use Node with it (and not just functions but Express apps too).

npm v7.1.0 Released with Two Small New Features — Two new small but sweet features. We get a new command – npm set-script – which lets you create a task in the scripts section of package.json. npm exec now also triggers an interactive subshell for running installed binaries (in the same way npm run scripts can).

How to Handle Request Validation in Your Express API — “You know it’s important, but it’s difficult to pick a validation library, and if you start writing your own custom validation it can quickly start to feel very messy..”

An Introduction to Event Loop Utilization — Trevor Norris of the core Node.js team has put together a neat writeup of what he’s discovered by measuring and tracking what the event loop is doing. Gets very technical fast, but you might enjoy this brief trip to a fundamental piece of the Node runtime.

Node v15.4.0 (Current) Released — Nothing huge here, but child_process now supports abort signals, as do readable streams, the main ICU (Unicode) dependency has been updated, and there’s a “very experimental and definitely not finished” BroadcastChannel implementation for worker threads (based upon the Web feature of the same name).

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