~nodeweekly | Bookmarks (50)

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.

AWS Lambda Web Adapter: Run Typical HTTP Webapps on AWS Lambda — A handy (Rust-powered) adapter that makes it easier to run apps built in any language on AWS’s serverless platform by letting them stick to their usual HTTP serving ways with this adapter bridging the gap.

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.

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.

yamlify-object 2.0: Stringify Objects with YAML Syntax — Take an object / array and turn it into a YAML string (which you can colorize with yamlify-object-colors if you want to use it for debugging purposes at the console.) js-yaml is another popular option in this space (that can parse YAML, too) but hasn’t had a release in three years.

Directus 10.9: Wrap a Database with a GraphQL & REST API — A Node.js-powered system that acts as a frontend to a Postgres, SQLite, MySQL, Oracle, or other SQL database, providing a modern dashboard, client, and REST and GraphQL APIs. Here's what's new in version 10.9. (Note the BSL license which limits free use to below a certain revenue level, but then reverts to GPL...

node-libcurl 4.0: libcurl Bindings for Node — libcurl is a very powerful and established way to fetch data from URLs across numerous protocols (HTTP, IMAP, SCP, SFTP, LDAP, Gopher..)

DashPress: Generate Versatile, Simple Admin Apps Quickly — Formerly known as Hadmean, this no-code admin app generator built atop Node and Next.js is easy to get started with. Just run: npx dashpress. If you want to see what the result is like, there’s a live demo which feels fast. (Note: AGPL 3.0 licensed.)

🐱 Meow 13.2: A Straightforward CLI App Helper — You define flags, help text, and other features in a single object and it handles all the processing for you. Short, simple, sweet, and no dependencies.

pkg-tools 1.0: An Opinionated Build Toolchain with Typed Configuration — A thin abstraction on top of the unbuild build system that centralizes your build config and helps consistently build packages supporting both CJS and ESM.

Husky 9: Git Hooks Made Easy — Husky provides a structured way to use git hooks to do things like auto-lint your commit messages or code, and run tests upon committing or pushing. v9 makes setting it up and adding hooks much easier.

Keyv: Simple Key-Value Storage with Support for Multiple Backends — A library that abstracts the concept of key-value storage, allowing you to easily use a memory based store (by default) or, if you need persistence, Redis, SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, etcd, Mongo, or even a tiered approach.

Pa11y: An Automated Web Page Accessibility Testing Tool — Something you can add into your build process, perhaps.

Tinybench: A Tiny, Simple Benchmarking Library — No dependencies, but uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. process.hrtime or peformance.now). You can then benchmark whatever functions you want, specify how long or how many times to benchmark for, and get a variety of stats in return.

⌨️🐈  wacat: Tests Your Webapp Against 'Cat Chaos' — Uses a ‘cat walking across your keyboard’ style approach to tormenting your webapps with random clicks and form submissions. (Fear not, no real cats are involved in the running of this tool.)

Dependency Cruiser 16.0: A Way to Visualize Dependencies — If you want a look at the output without running it for yourself, there’s a whole page of graphs for popular, real world projects including Chalk and Yarn. Might be an option if you're looking to create a fun poster for your office wall..? 😆

c8 v9.0: Output Coverage Reports using Node's Built in Coverage — Code-coverage using Node's built-in functionality, that’s compatible with Istanbul’s reporters.

jsvu 2.2: JavaScript (Engine) Version Updater — A tool for installing new JavaScript engines (on macOS, Linux and Windows) without compiling them from source.

🕵️ Secretlint: A Linter to Prevent Committing Credentials — While many services, including GitHub, now detect the accidental sharing of secrets and credentials and even revoke those tokens, it’s better if they’re not in your repo in the first place. This can be used on an adhoc basis or in your CI.

Node Boilerplate 2.0: A Skeleton for Express Microservices — There's a few projects like this, but Santosh has clearly put effort into maintaining this one, which provides a quick, opinionated starting point for building Web services with Node, Express, TypeScript, along with some initial tests too.