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Fastify 3.0: A Fast 'Low-Overhead' Web Framework for Node — Fastify has been around for quite some time and may be worth another look. The just released v3.0.0 includes a variety of breaking changes and new features, along with better TypeScript support.

Node File Trace: A Dependency Tracing Utility — Vercel uses this to figure out exactly which files are necessary for an app’s runtime - you can too.

unavatar: A Way to Quickly Get User Avatars — Given a username or email address, it’ll query multiple social providers to return an avatar. It’s built using Node and is open source if you want to run your own version.

A Node Implementation of Google's HighwayHash — HighwayHash is a hash function built at Google for portability, speed, and security.

Financial: A Zero-Dependency Financial Calculations Library — Based on numpy-financial but aimed at Node, Deno, and the browser, Financial gives you functions for calculating things like future values, repayments, interest rates, etc.

Clinic.js: An Open Source Node.js Performance Profiling Suite — This tool will diagnose issues in Node apps by means of probes used to collect metrics to assess the app and create recommendations. GitHub repo.

How to Use Node, a Raspberry Pi, and an LCD Screen to Monitor the Weather — If you’ve been itching to play with that Raspberry Pi sitting in your drawer (I joke, despite having a few myself!) this is one way to go about it.

Configuring Your .npmrc for an Optimal Node Environment — The .npmrc file is just one place where npm gets its configuration settings from and where you can override those settings to make your life a little easier.

Building Serverless GraphQL API in Node.js with Express and Netlify — A very accessible tutorial that will suit anyone who likes to keep things easy to maintain.

Puppeteer 5.0 Released: The Headless Chrome Control Library — Puppeteer 4.0 was only three weeks ago but there are breaking changes here and work on making Puppeteer environment agnostic is in full flow.

Scout APM Now Available for Node.js — Scout’s intuitive UI helps you quickly track down issues so you can get back to building your product. Rest easy knowing that Scout is tracking your apps performance and hunting down small issues before they become large issues. Get started for free.

11 Simple npm Tricks That Will Knock Your Wombat Socks Off — Look, I have no idea what ‘wombat socks’ are but it’s a catchy title 😂 .. and given how much most of us use npm (ssssh yarn or pnpm users) tips are always welcomed.

Why Logs are Important, Introducing Logality — There are a lot of logging libraries and solutions for Node, but Thanasis thinks there’s need for another. Enter Logality, a logger with ‘some novel concepts’, built-in and custom serializers, filtering, and the ability to be either synchronous or asynchronous.

Node v14.5.0 Released — The most notable change is the V8 engine seeing an update to version 8.3 which is primarily a performance and bug-fix upgrade. There’s also an initial experimental implementation of EventTarget which provides a DOM-style (think addEventListener) API for objects in general – more on that here.

▶  Low Code for the Node.js Developer with Node-RED — The project lead of Node-RED, a visual, Node-based ‘low code’ programming tool, talks about the concepts of ‘low code’ in the Node space and how Node-RED works.

Hapi's Hour is Coming to an End? — Hapi is a popular Node webapp framework but apparently it’s “going to end.” In another tweet, however, they say that: “hapi will continue to be fully supported and maintained until the end of the year. A fully supported commercially licensed version will be available for at least 2 years after that..” – so it's not all doom and gloom.

Using Node 14's New and Experimental Features — The goal is to create an application performance monitor using some of the new Node 14 features from optional chaining and nullish coalescing through to diagnostic reports and top-level await.

Using Remote Containers in WSL 2 — If you’re a Windows 10-based developer using VS Code, this will be of interest as it shows how to use a Docker container under WSL 2 to keep your dev environment away from your usual Windows environment and tie it all together with VS Code.

▶  The Bits And Bytes of Binary — Do you need to know the ins and outs of messing with binary in order to build a web app? No. But binary nonetheless runs the show at the low level, including in many algorithms, and this series from Low Level JavaScript covers the basics well.

A Deep Dive Into Queues in Node.js — Find out what queueing in Node is all about, including how it works with the event loop, its various types, and how it can help with async operations.

▶  Behind the Scenes of Node.js Distributions — A basic, high level talk covering how Node releases are created and released.

node-dev: Zero-Conf Node.js Reloading — Contrasts with nodemon in that it hooks into require and only reloads when required files are updated, so no inclusion/exclusion rules have to be set up.

awesome-nodejs-security: A Curated List of Node.js Security Resources — Includes libraries like express-enforces-ssl and stories of incidents like the left-pad incident.

▶  Ryan Dahl's Latest Talk about Deno — Deno’s creator gave a 27 minute talk for the online OpenJS World 2020 event. The slidedeck is here if you prefer to browse the concepts quickly rather than watch a video. Topics covered include Deno’s advantages, design, internal structure, and a basic roadmap for the near future. [Via our weekly Deno newsletter]

New Course: React Native — Leverage your JavaScript and React skills for mobile iOS and Android platforms using React Native – ship your very own native mobile applications.

Tips for End to End Testing with Puppeteer — Some tips and tricks from someone who’s used Puppeteer a lot.

Kretes: Programming Environment for TypeScript and Node — A programming environment (“currently in alpha”) built on top of VS Code. It combines a web framework with an editor into an integrated, ‘battery-included’ solution.

Sequelize 6: An Easy-to-Use Multi SQL Dialect ORM — Supports Postgres 9.5+, MySQL 5.7+, MariaDB 10.1+, SQL Server 12.0.2000+ and SQLite 3.0+. The Bluebird promise library has been removed in favor of standard promises. Node 10 is now the minimum version needed.

Building a GraphQL API in Node — GraphQL is continuing to emerge as a popular way to build and declaratively query remote APIs and you can build both GraphQL clients and servers reasonably easily with Node. This is a good introduction from Heroku on the basics of what’s involved.

npm v7 Series: Why Keep package-lock.json? — If npm v7 is going to support yarn.lock files, then why keep package-lock.json around as well? Isaac goes into some depth as to how yarn.lock works and why it doesn’t quite suit every use case npm covers.

Endb: Simple Key-Value Storage for Multiple Database Backends — Provides a simple key/value-style storage API on top of either a MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, or Redis database.

Google BigQuery for Node.js 5.0 — BigQuery is Google’s fast and fully-managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics and the Node client has gotten a touch of paint. Release notes.

patch-package: Fix Broken Node Modules Instantly — The idea is you use this to apply patches to packages used by your app. Describes itself as a ‘vital band-aid’ for developers living on the bleeding edge(!)

Madge: Create Graphs From Your Module Dependencies — A developer tool for generating a visual graph of your module dependencies (works with CommonJS, AMD and ES6 modules), finding circular dependencies, and discovering other useful info.

▶  'Ridiculous npm Packages I Wish Didn't Exist' — I think it’s great people can write, release and distribute packages that do whatever they want, no matter how trivial or silly, but.. this guy isn’t quite so sure and humorously picks on a few obvious examples of frivolous packages.

Kicking Node Into High Gear for Data Processing — The author, playing around with Node, managed to get a 50x speedup for a workload they had.

Node v12.18.1 (LTS) Released — Only the tiniest of Node releases so far this week in the shape of a Node 12 LTS point release that updates some underlying dependencies (such as npm to 6.14.5) and a cherry picked V8 fix for an object enumeration performance issue.

Johnny Five 2.0: A JavaScript Robotics and IoT Programming Framework — If you’d wondered why you haven’t seen much about Johnny Five lately, don’t fear, because… Five is Alive! v2.0 is primarily an internal rewrite release rather than boasting lots of new features, though.

A Performance Deep-Dive into the Hapi Web Framework — “we were able to squeeze out a 30% performance boost in hapi using relatively simple changes.”