Bookmarks (2113)

Tensei: A Node.js Headless CMS with GraphQL and REST APIs — Data is managed via the Mikro ORM and can reside in a MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres or SQLite database. The getting started docs show how quick it is to spin up a blog system with it.

▶  Finding a Lost Song with Node and Async Iterators — Luciano got a song in his head and wanted to remember what it was. Being a programmer, of course, he didn’t just wait to figure it out but set out to code a solution by way of the Last.fm API.

▶  How to Build and Sell Your Own Node-Based Web API — Popular JavaScript screencaster Ania Kubów tackles the idea of making a Web-based API using Node and then offering access to it, for a fee, via the RapidAPI marketplace.

Understanding and Implementing OAuth2 in Node — OAuth2 is everywhere. From “Login With Facebook” buttons to back-end API authentication. But how does it work?

How to 'Cancel' an HTTP Request — The so-called Abort API allows you to cancel asynchronous tasks such as in-flight HTTP requests and here’s how to use it in the latest Node.js version. Simon has also given a 30 minute talk about AbortController generally if you want to learn more.

Node v17 (Current) Released — Being sixteen flew by in a flash for me at least, but so too has it for Node 16 remaining the cutting edge ‘release’ line. v17 now takes over that role with Node 16 becoming an Active LTS version to be maintained through to 2024. But what’s new in Node 17?

vdx: An Intuitive CLI for Processing Video, Powered by FFmpeg — Lets you perform a number of operations including crop, trim, change frame rate, convert format, run concurrent operations, and more.

JavaScript Obfuscator: A Way to Scramble Your JS Code — Transforms your code into a functionally equivalent representation that’s harder to understand or modify. A lot of folks find this sort of fiddling to be of little value given it can be reversed to some extent anyway, but there’s a Web interface if you want to give it a try.

Gramma: A Command-Line Grammar Checker — A CLI tool (though there is a JS API) written in Node that uses LanguageTool to provide natural language grammar checking.

Blitz.js: Rails-Like Framework for Monolithic, Full-Stack React Apps — A ‘batteries included’ framework built on Next.js that boasts a ‘zero API’ approach eliminating the need for a REST/GraphQL API for the data layer.

The GitHub Advisory Database Now Powers npm audit — npm audit is a command you can run to scan your project’s dependencies for known security vulnerabilities.

Node 16.11.1, 14.18.1, and 12.22.7 Released — Billed as the ‘October 2021 Security Releases’, v16.11.1 (Current), v14.18.1 (LTS) and v12.22.7 (LTS) each fix the same two HTTP request smuggling vulnerabilities – the details of which aren’t entirely public as of yet.

All-In-One APM for Node.js Applications — AppSignal doesn’t just offer Node.js performance monitoring and error tracking. We have a full set of features to monitor your application from A to Z packed in a clear and intuitive interface. All features are included in all plans.

npm 8.0 Released (But It's Not a Huge Deal) — The npm CLI has been upgraded to version 8 (almost exactly a year after the meatier npm 7 release) but as Myles Borin notes it’s a ‘fairly innocuous’ release primarily to drop Node.js v10 support: “Please feel free to use this as an example when folks argue about not bumping a major, npm has...

Retiring the Node.js Community Committee — The Node.js Community Committee’s initiatives are being moved to the Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) due, primarily, to an overall decline in the number of folks involved.

Building a Static-First MadLib Generator with Portable Text and Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions — On-demand builders can be useful for more than just deferring rendering of large amounts of content. They are also useful for generating user-generated content, as in this MadLib generator.

Objection.js: An SQL-Friendly ORM for Node — Built on top of Knex and supporting SQLite, Postgres, and MySQL, Objection aims to ‘stay out of your way’ and let you use the full power of SQL while making common operations easier. GitHub repo.

Is Deno Still a Thing? A Look at the Status of the 'Node Killer' — Not a particularly deep piece, but if you’ve not kept up with Deno it’s a quick catch up.

kill-port: Kill the Process Running on a Given Port — For example, you could use npx kill-port 3000 to kill a local process listening on port 3000. For Unix and macOS it’s basically running lsof and kill behind the scenes, but it also supports Windows.

Writing Clean JavaScript Tests with the BASIC Principles — An introduction to applying several key principles to shorten, clean, and simplify JavaScript and Node.js-based test suites.

Eleventy 1.0 Beta 1 Released — Eleventy (a.k.a. 11ty) is a very popular Node powered static site generator originally created as a JavaScript alternative to Ruby’s Jekyll.

Security-As-Code for Developers — Automate and embed cloud security throughout the entire development lifecycle with Bridgecrew's all-in-one DevSecOps platform.

Web Streams Everywhere (and Fetch for Node.js) — A look at how most JavaScript platforms (including browsers) now have at least partial support for creating, composing, and consuming streams of data in a stream-like fashion, as well as how Node’s streams implementation differs and can interop with the modern Web Streams API approach.

❓  Ask HN: Why is Node.js 'Hated' So Much? — Ouch! Is it? Nonetheless, this question on Hacker News led to quite a lot of discussion with over 120 comments so far – many fair, some not. I try to remain philosophical on things like this and remember C++’s creator who said: “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about...

Sending iOS Push Notifications via APNs — Need to iOS push notifications through APNs? Here’s a walkthrough of how to send push notifications with the help of a sample iOS app and a basic Node script.

Guidelines for Choosing a Node.js Framework — Hapi? Koa? Express? Slow down. Unlike a lot of articles, this one doesn’t give you any specific framework suggestions (the list of Node frameworks from awesome-nodejs is suggested for that) but instead arms you with the questions you should be asking when weighing up your potential options.

Oso: A System for Implementing Authorization — Oso is a set of APIs for defining authorization schemes in a language called Polar. It’s written in Rust, but offers libraries, including this one, for other languages like Node, Python, and Go.

DOCX 7.1: A Declarative API to Generate .docx Files — .docx files are perhaps more commonly known as modern Microsoft Word documents. This library works on both Node and the browser and there’s a live CodePen demo here, plus a folder of code examples. — GitHub repo.

Restify 8.6.0: A Framework for Building REST APIs — At 11 years old, Restify isn’t getting a huge number of updates lately, but new releases of heavily used infrastructure projects are always welcomed.

Threads.js 1.7: Web Workers Meet Worker Threads — A library that provides an abstraction over both Web Workers and worker threads (as implemented in Node) to keep code consistent across Node, browser, and Electron. GitHub repo.

NVM for Windows 1.1.8: Node Version Utility for Windows — Node 16.9 introduced corepack, a built-in way to manage package managers, and this release adds support for Windows-based users keen to use NVM for Windows with it until its successor is completed.

Passport 0.5: Simple, Unobtrusive Authentication for Node — A very long standing project in the Node ecosystem acting as authentication middleware for any Express-based app. Amazingly there are now over 500 packages offering extra strategies and options too. GitHub repo.

Power Up Your JavaScript with Functional Programming — Learn core functional JS programming techniques by coding with pure functions, learning recursion, higher-order functions, closures, currying, function composition, and more.

Node v14.18.0 (LTS) Released — Note that this is the v14 LTS release, so it’s more about stability and backporting some things from v15 and v16, such as Blob, child_process improvements, fsPromises.watch() and more.

Node.js Garbage Collection Explained — Learn how garbage collection and memory management works in practice with Node.js complete with illustrations and code examples. This is an older item but recently updated.

i18n-tools: CLI to Make Common Operations Around i18n Files Simpler — Convert i18n JSON files to xslx or CSV (and vice versa) or compare two i18n files for differences.

nbb: Adhoc ClojureScript Scripting on Node.js — If you want to write ClojureScript and run it quickly on top of Node, this provides a way.

Ackee: A Self-Hosted, Node-Based Web Analytics Tool — If you want to self host your own Web analytics system and have privacy in mind.

Node v16.10.0 (Current) Released — No big changes, but lots of smaller things, like npm and Acorn being updated and a new way to limit requests per connection via http.

Electron 15.0.0 Released — Following on rather quickly from v14, Electron is now on a new eight week release cadence. v15 of the popular cross-platform desktop app framework upgrade to Chromium 94, V8 9.4, and Node.js 16.5.0 – none of which are huge advancements (though WebCodecs support may interest some), but it’s always great to see how up to date Electron is kept.