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Hazelcast IMDG Node.js Client — Hazelcast is an open-source ‘in memory data grid’ popular in the Java space.

Building a Wordle-Like SMS Game with Twilio Serverless — A just-for-fun homage to popular word game Wordle, in which you build a text/SMS-based version with Twilio Functions, the Serverless Toolkit, and Node.

New Course on State Machines with XState by David Khourshid — If you build large JavaScript apps and want to stop running into weird edge cases, you'll want to learn state machines. Spend your time modeling app logic clearly and robustly.

A Complete Beginner's Guide to npm — If you’re a long time Node developer, npm is probably second nature to you, but nonetheless this guide to npm may prove useful, even if only to other folks on your team. It’s a nine-part guide from CSS Tricks covering everything from the ground up.

Using Node.js from Google Sheets (with Fusebit) — Be warned that this integration depends entirely upon Fusebit, a commercial integration platform, but if Google’s Apps Script isn’t enough for you, you may appreciate knowing about this approach.

How to Extract Secrets from an Electron App — The point is it’s so simple that you really shouldn’t be leaving such secrets in there anyway.

Awesome Node-RED: Curated Resources for Node-RED Users — Node-RED is a popular Node-powered low-code event driven programming environment.

How To Process Images in Node.js with Sharp — Sharp is a popular high performance package for working with images in Node.js. Resizing is its main function but it can do other things like rotation, compositing, and gamma correction too.

A Boilerplate and Starter App for Node.js Serverless Apps — Leans upon Serverless Framework, Express.js, TypeScript, Prettier, Husky, and more to provide a lot of functionality out of the box.

Rockpack 2.0: An Alternative React App Builder — Like Create React App the goal is to get project setup time as low as possible, but Rockpack holds some different opinions around how far to take things and packs in a lot of ideas including, now, server side rendering.

Remix vs Next.js — While this is a comparison written by the Remix team, it seems open about its methodology and tries to be fair in its comparison. The comparison (and sometimes implicit criticism) of Jamstack has been a Remix talking point – not entirely unfairly either.

Eleventy v1.0: The Node-Powered Static Site Generator — Created as an alternative to the Ruby-powered Jekyll, Eleventy (a.k.a. 11ty) similarly can transform a directory of templates into a static HTML site to deploy wherever you like. The v1.0.0 release notes provide more info.

Cloud Infrastructure Without the Complexity or Cost — Vultr offers up cloud compute and simplified instance management at a fraction of the cost of Big Tech. Redeem $100 in infrastructure credit today to instantly deploy hyperscale bare metal, virtual servers, and storage around the world.

Node v17.4.0 (Current) Released — A release of many tiny fixes and updates with small upgrades to libuv and npm, some minor additions to stream (to begin aligning with TC39’s iterator helpers proposal), and the module path on child_process.fork can now be a URL object.

Mocking With Undici Like a Pro — Undici is a strongly recommended HTTP/1.1 client that improves upon what the standard library offers, but its approach means common mocking approaches need to be revisited when working with it.

Creating an AWS Lambda Function with nbb — nbb is a ClojureScript environment that runs on top of Node.js, so it’s ideal for AWS Lambda. Node doesn't have to always be about JavaScript :-)

Create An Open Graph Image Generator with Node — Set up a server with Node.js to dynamically generate images and reduce the manual effort of creating Open Graph images.

JavaScript Developer Breaks Two Popular npm Packages — The creator of Faker.js and colors.js, two packages we’ve mentioned quite often, made some unorthodox commits to his projects recently that caused them to either disappear or break in interesting ways which resulted in GitHub suspending his access at one point. To be blunt, you want to be finding alternatives. The Register’s writeup is, perhaps, one...