~nodeweekly | Bookmarks (46)

node-pg-migrate 7.0: Database Migration Management for Postgres — Lots of cleanups and refactoring from the project’s new maintainer, Shinigami, also a core maintainer of FakerJS and Vite.

pnpm 9.0: The Efficiency-Focused Package Manager — pnpm has long been a fantastic option for folks looking to save disk space and CPU cycles (or for its great monorepo support) while maintaining most of what makes npm great. v9.0 drops Node 16 and 17 compatibility, honors the packageManager field in package.json, makes some default config changes, and adopts Lockfile v9.

Catena: Build Type-Safe APIs on Express — Inspired by tRPC, but you can layer it on top of an existing Express codebase.

Modern Errors 7.0: Handle Errors in a Simple, Stable, Consistent Way — Create error classes, wrap or aggregate errors, or use one of several plugins to do things like print bug reporting info, print stack traces, and more.

Madge 7.0: Create Graphs From Your Module Dependencies — A developer tool for generating a visual graph of your module dependencies, finding circular dependencies, and unearthing other useful info.

JS-Torch: A PyTorch-Like Library for JavaScript — Python’s PyTorch is one of the gold standards amongst machine learning libraries, but this project brings some of its features directly into the JavaScript world. Early days but this could become a big deal for ML in JS?

Janeway: A Node Console REPL with Object Inspection — Has some neat features including being able to look into buffers with a built-in hex viewer.

Flyweight: An ORM Specifically for SQLite — Some interesting ideas here, a little different to your typical ORM.

zx v8.0: Google's Way to Write Shell Scripts with Node — A long-standing way to make scripting a more pleasant experience. zx provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults. v8.0 somehow makes zx 20x smaller, faster, makes it easier to kill processes, pass input to commands, and more. A substantial release.

Node SQL Parser 5.0: Parse Simple SQL into ASTs — And vice versa (turn ASTs, that you can manipulate, back into SQL).

Slonik v38: The Sophisticated Postgres Client Library — A ‘battle tested’ framework that offers strict types, detailed logging, abstracts repeating code patterns, protects against unsafe behavior, and provides a rich debugging experience.

Phin 4.0: A Simple, Dependency-Free HTTP Request Client — We last linked to this project six years ago so it’s great to see a new major version. Being lightweight is its goal, while still offering all the key features you’re likely to need.

pgmq-js: A Client for Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ) — PGMQ is a message queue system built on top of the Postgres database.

unplugin-parcel-macros: Use Parcel/Bun Macros with Other Bundlers — Macros, as implemented in Parcel and Bun, are JavaScript functions that run at build time and whose values get inlined into the bundle in place of the original call. You can now use this feature with webpack, Vite, Rollup, esbuild, and Next.js.

Unfurl 6.4: oEmbed Metadata Scraper — Supports lifting data by way of oEmbed and on pages using Open Graph tags.

node-crc32-stream 6.0: A Streaming CRC32 Checksummer — A quick way to calculate checksums, and it has deflate support too.

node-usb 2.12.0: An Improved USB Library for Node — Can you work with USB at a low level from Node code? You sure can. You might like ▶️ this livestream from a couple years back if you want to get into such things, too.

PGlite: Postgres in WebAssembly — Folks have run Postgres in WebAssembly contexts before, though usually with a heavy Linux VM layer sitting in the middle. PGlite packages a WASM build of Postgres into a TypeScript library that can be run in the browser or on Node.js at under 4MB gzipped.

🎨 yoctocolors 2.0: The Smallest, Fastest Command-Line Coloring Package — It’s Chalk’s 'baby cousin' and comes from one-man Node package powerhouse, Sindre Sorhus. Being small and fast comes as no surprise when there’s so little code.

Express.js 4.18.3: A Small Step for a Framework.. — .. but a giant leap for Express-kind? 😅 The first new release of Express.js in over sixteen months has no significant new features (hence the patch level bump) but it’s a great sign given the recent renewed focus on pushing Express forward.

Systeminformation: A System Information Library for Node — If you want to query what environment your Node program is running in, this is for you. Get info about audio devices, Bluetooth devices, printers, USB, CPU, architecture, WiFi, and more.

node-rate-limiter-flexible 5.0: Limit Number of Actions by Key and Protect Apps from Brute Force Attacks — Can use Redis, in-process memory, memcached, MongoDB, Postgres or more to count actions in either a single process or distributed environment. Now with Prisma support.

SQS Consumer 8.2: Build Amazon SQS-Based Apps Without the Boilerplate — Build SQS-based (Simple Queue Service) apps more simply by defining an async function that handles the SQS message processing.

Readability.js: Extract the Readable Content from an HTML Document — A standalone version of the library used to power Firefox’s Reader View. It's been a few years since we've linked to this, but it continues to be improved.