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capture-website 2.4: Capture Screenshots of Websites — A high-level Puppeteer wrapper to make it easy to capture screenshots of websites from Node or the command-line.

Node v18.2.0 (Current) Released — Don’t get too excited – this is a modest release. npm gets updated to v8.9.0, undici to v5.2.0, and some OpenSSL related issues are addressed. If you really want some new features, you can now use a method to close all connections on http.Server and there’s an initial PerformanceResourceTiming implementation.

Making TypeScript 'Stick' — Test your knowledge through quizzes, challenges, and even a TypeScript gameshow in this new course by Mike North!

Node.js 16.x Runtime Now Available in AWS Lambda — Node.js was the first runtime offered when AWS’s industry defining serverless platform launched eight years ago, and now you can get up and running on the latest active LTS release with all its improvements.

Deploying Node-RED to Google App Engine — Node-RED is a Node-powered low-code event-driven programming environment most commonly associated with IoT and stringing together hardware devices in various ways. But you can deploy it in the cloud, too, to create your own automation system for other things.

Best Practices for Working with Different Filesystems — Be prepared for differences, take care of case sensitivity, and more.

Hosting a Ghost Blog for Free on Fly.io, Quickly — Ghost is a long standing Node-powered CMS, Fly.io is an interesting hosting platform with a generous free tier, so…

google-spreadsheet: Interact with Google Sheets Documents — Google Sheets is Google’s cloud-based spreadsheet app and it has an API so you can work with documents from your own code.

crypto-random-string 5.0: Generate a Cryptographically Strong Random String — For example: cryptoRandomString({length: 10}) might return 2cf05d94db. Now works in both Node.js and the browser.

Dats 3.0: A Minimal Zero-Dependency statsd Client Library — StatsD is a stats/metrics aggregation service originally developed at Etsy.

Web Scraping via JS Runtime Heap Snapshots — When official APIs don’t offer all of the access users require (or don’t exist at all) scraping can become a less than ideal necessity. Puppeteer or Playwright make controlling a headless browser easy, but finding the data you want can still be complex.. but what if you could just pluck data objects from a page out...

An Enhanced 2FA Experience for Your npm Account — Over the past six months, GitHub has been keen to tighten up security around the publishing of npm packages with two-factor authentication at the heart of the effort. Now an array of improved 2FA features are in public beta for you to try out, but all maintainers of the top 500 npm packages will be...

Couchbase Capella DBaaS: Store in JSON, access with SQL — Build faster with in-memory performance, automatic replication and scaling. Try it now for free and be live in under 3 minutes.

Ryan Dahl on JavaScript Containers — Ryan, originally known for Node and now Deno, thinks about JavaScript as being a universal scripting language and how the JS sandbox acts as a sort of high level version of the traditional Linux container and will only become more important in the next few years.

Mystery of Industry-Focused Backdoored npm Packages Solved — Snyk, JFrog and ReversingLabs spent a fair bit of time investigating modules that were built by an intern at a security research company researching dependency confusion.

What's Involved in Running a Ransomware Attack in a Node Module — What began as a learning experiment to see how difficult it would be turned into concern at how easy it was..

GraphQL Yoga 2.0: A Light But Fully-Featured GraphQL Server — Bills itself as the ‘easiest way to run a GraphQL server’. Yoga follows the GraphQL over HTTP spec, supports file uploaded, subscriptions over HTTP Server Sent Events, and more – plus it’ll work on Node, Deno, or even serverlessly. GitHub repo.

URL State Machine: A Fast Spec-Compliant URL State Machine — Aims to follow the WhatWG spec on the matter.

Agenda 4.3: Lightweight Job Scheduling for Node — Uses a MongoDB-backed persistence layer and offers rate limiting, pause/resume, and repeatable jobs.

nve 15.0: Run Things With a Specific Node.js Version — Easily execute a file, command, or REPL using a specific version (or multiple versions) of Node. For example, you could run npm test over multiple versions at once.