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Introducing libSquoosh: Experimental Image Optimization from Node — Squoosh is an image optimization web app originally built by a team at Google in 2018 and since then it has been updated and offered in CLI form. Now, Surma has unveiled libSquoosh, a Node library for performing such extreme image optimization from whatever code you like.

Spend Less Time Debugging and More Time Building with Scout — Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues in minutes. See for yourself why Scout is a Node developers’s best friend with a free 14-day trial, no credit card needed.

▶  Exploring Deno Land 🦕 with Ryan Dahl — Ryan Dahl, the original creator of Node.js creator and now creator of the Deno runtime, went on the popular Changelog podcast to talk about how the success of Node changed his life and what led him to creating Deno.

PM2 5.0 Released: The Production Process Manager — PM2 (enjoy the fancy homepage) is a popular process manager and load balancer for long running Node.js apps. 5.0 is a significant release that adds a new local system monitoring feature for tracking metrics like CPU and memory use.

AWS DevSecOps Day on June 16: Bridgecrew for CloudFormation — Gain hands-on experience with automated security-as-code. RSVP for free with AWS credits included for a limited time.

html-to-text 8.0: Advanced HTML to Text Converter — Uses a variety of techniques to convert even complex HTML into plain text (but with some formatting, such as for tables). It can be heavily customized and tweaked, too.

node-localstorage: A Drop-In Substitute for the Browser Native localStorage API — Why let Deno have all the fun?

Electron 13.0 Released — Maybe 13 is unlucky for some, but lucky for you if you have cross-platform desktop apps to build with Node! Version 13 gets you onto Chromium 91 (reading files from the clipboard seems to be a new possibility..), Node 14.16, and V8 9.1.

Forever 4.0: Ensure a Script Runs Continuously — .. or forever, if you will.. heat death of the universe be darned.

Writing Custom REPLs in Node — If you just run a plain node at the terminal, you get Node’s REPL environment.. but what if you want to create a REPL within a context of your own creation? Some basic guidance here.

Head-to-Head: Monolith vs. Microservices — Learn how you can leverage microservices to modernize your IT portfolio with a progressive approach.

On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing — Does your testing follow a pyramid, a honeycomb, or a trophy? How many unit tests vs integration vs other? Is mocking and stubbing OK? The testing world is certainly full of opinions and shapes.

How We Debugged And Fixed EMFILE: too many files open on AWS Lambda — When running a Node based function, the author’s team kept running into this error oriented around the use of file descriptors. Luckily, the fix was pretty simple.

How to Create a Monorepo for Multiple Node Packages — A step-by-step guide on how to use Lerna (a tool that optimizes the workflow around managing multi-package repositories with git and npm) to manage, and publish, two packages under the same monorepo.

▶  How to Build a Realtime Chat App in 10 Minutes — The code is, unsurprisingly, very simple, although this is achieved by leaning on Pusher for all the hard backend work.

NocoDB: An Open Source Airtable-a-Like — Airtable is a popular, though commercial, spreadsheet-database hybrid offered as a service. We use it here at Cooperpress to help put the newsletters together! This is a flexible and surprisingly good looking open source pastiche.