~nodeweekly | Bookmarks (177)

⚙️  DBngin: Simple Postgres, MySQL and Redis on Mac and Windows — It’s not Node-specific, but if you’d like to spin up different versions of various common databases using a simple UI, this could fit the bill.

AWS Lambda Turns Ten: Looking Back and Looking Ahead — AWS Lambda, Amazon’s cloud function service, essentially launched the term ‘serverless’ and had a big impact on the use of Node.js in the cloud with Node v0.10 being the first and only runtime supported (till Java was added a year later).

Val Town: A Social Way to Write and Deploy TypeScript — Staying on a serverless-ish theme, “If GitHub Gists Could Run, and AWS Lambda Were Fun” is a fitting description for this online platform where you write short functions (the so-called ‘val’s) and they get run in V8 isolates. You can connect them together, schedule them, serve them up over HTTP, and more.

Memetria K/V: High-Performance Key-Value Hosting — Boost your Node.js apps with Memetria K/V, providing portable, easy-to-use hosting for Redis OSS and Valkey. Scale your applications with ease and achieve high performance. Includes detailed analytics and large key memory tracking.

Node v18.20.5 (LTS) Released — Node v18 remains in its ‘Maintenance LTS’ phase (until May 2025) and while you can’t expect anything big, this release updates a lot of key dependencies and marks import attributes and JSON module support as stable.

Talk to ChatGPT via a Phone Call — It requires some third party services like Twilio, AssemblyAI and, of course, OpenAI’s GPT 4, but you can tie all of these together with Node for a pretty neat demo.

npmpackage.info: Detailed Package Info on a Single Page — Give this online tool the name of an npm package and you get a quick ‘dashboard’ style view of the project’s main statistics, covering areas like quality scores, commits, open issues, releases, bundle size, and more.

Explore Sentry Launch Week: New Products and Community Highlights — Join us for daily video drops on YouTube at 9am PT, and on Discord to chat live with the engineers building Sentry.

💬 Discordeno v19: A Powerful Discord API Library — A long standing way to work with, and build bots for, the popular Discord chat system. v19 is a big update with breaking changes. GitHub repo.

SVG To Font 6.1: Read SVG Icons and Output a Font File — Both a CLI tool and Node library that can read in a set of SVG documents and output WOFF2, WOFF, EOT, TTF and SVG fonts. Useful for generating a Web font from a set of icons, perhaps, as in this demo.

wacat 1.2: Tests Your Webapp Against 'Cat Chaos' — Uses a virtual ‘cat walking across your keyboard’ approach to tormenting apps with random clicks and form submissions. v1.2 adds LLM integration to detect and handle error states along the way.

Node-OracleDB 6.7: Oracle's Official Database Driver for Node — I’m not an Oracle Database user myself, but I like the amount of effort Oracle puts into maintaining their Node.js driver. v6.7 adds OpenTelemetry support and settable V$ session attributes.

Node v23.2.0 (Current) Released — On paper, a relatively minor release that updates the root certificates, adding five new ones, but development of TypeScript support has now moved into active development (as opposed to ‘early development’) and there’s a new module.stripTypeScriptTypes API.

Introducing the vlt Package Manager — Made up of an incredibly experienced team, including npm’s creator Isaac Schlueter, Vlt set out to ‘build the future’ of JS package management. The vlt tool, explained here, is the first fruit of the project and acts as ‘a drop-in replacement’ to whatever you’re using now.

Key Learnings From the State of DevSecOps Study — To understand the state of DevSecOps adoption in 2024, Datadog evaluated real-world data from thousands of applications. Read the report for key insights on secure application development techniques to improve your security posture.

Node.js v22 Enters Long Term Support (LTS) — This happened in the past couple of weeks, but Lizz has put together a useful update on Node 22’s recent transition to becoming an LTS release and the key features it has baked in.

JavaScript Import Attributes (ES2025) Explained — Import Attributes (currently stage 3 at TC39 but supported in Node) add a way to supply useful metadata about modules you’re importing.

Node Implementing Stricter Policies for Pull Requests — To help bolster the stability and security of major releases, the Node team has introduced a stricter policy around semver-major PRs. If such a PR lands on the default branch within a month prior to a major release, it’ll be far less likely to make it in.

🎵 music-metadata: Stream and File-Based Music Metadata Parser — Supporting formats like MP3, FLAC, Ogg, WAV, WMA, AAC and AIFF, this library extracts metadata like ID3v1 and iTunes tags for processing however you want. Supports streaming and has an async API for efficiency.

Immutable.js 5.0: Immutable Collections for JavaScript — Provides numerous persistent immutable data structures including a list, stack, map, ordered map, set, ordered set, and records.

Cron 3.2: Cron-Syntax Job Runner for Node — Execute functions whenever your scheduled jobs (defined using standard cron format) triggers.

WebAssembly Audio Decoders — Targeting both browser and Node.js use cases, this is a collection of WASM-powered audio decoding libraries for formats like MPEG I/II/III, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg FLAC, Opus, and Ogg Vorbis.

graphql-subscriptions: GraphQL Subscriptions for Node.js — Wire up GraphQL with a pub/sub system (e.g. Redis) to implement subscriptions in GraphQL.