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Lydia Hallie Tests Your JavaScript Knowledge — Challenge your core knowledge with 50 interactive quiz questions covering topics like the event loop, scopes and closures, classes and prototypes, garbage collection, and more. After each question, you'll get an in-depth visual explanation from Lydia to deepen your understanding of fundamental JS concepts.

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.

Deno Introduces JSR: A New JavaScript Registry — The JavaScript Registry (a.k.a. JSR) is a new TypeScript-first, ESM-only module registry designed for the entire JavaScript ecosystem (not just Deno). This post digs into what it’s all about. I find it rather cute that npm’s own flexibility makes JSR easy to use from Node too, via npx jsr!

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.

A Look at Eight Top Recent V8 in Node Updates — V8 is the JavaScript engine that powers Node and the V8 team continues to make it faster and better every month without fail. This post explains some of the most recent enhancements at a high-ish level.

Building a better-sqlite3-Compatible JavaScript Package with.. Rust? — better-sqlite3 is a commonly used SQLite library for Node.js and the folks at Turso wanted to create something compatible with it but that uses their libSQL SQLite fork under the hood instead.

ExpressoTS: A TypeScript + Express.js Framework — A layer that sits on top of Express.js and provides typed structure around concepts like controllers, models/providers, and more. GitHub repo.

▶  Drizzle ORM Explained in 100 Seconds — The latest bitesize video from the always educational Fireship channel covers Drizzle ORM, a fast, TypeScript-based way to work with a variety of database systems across numerous JavaScript platforms, from Node to Bun, Deno Deploy, Supabase Functions, Cloudflare Workers, and more. If you need more, there’s ▶️ a 13 minute ‘crash course’ to learning Drizzle, too.

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.

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.

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.

🚀🐢  𝕏 Meet Node's New Mascot? — Over on Twitter/X, the official Node account unveiled the result of the Node.js mascot design contest that ran recently, and Node’s new mascot is… Rocket Turtle (as seen above) by Angela Angelini. The folks over on Reddit aren't huge fans, it seems?

JSR: What We Know So Far About Deno’s New JS Package Registry — The Deno team is cooking up JSR (still behind a waitlist), a new JavaScript package registry (not merely a package management tool, like pnpm or Yarn) to address various npm limitations, including for Node users who don't even plan to use Deno.

Instant GraphQL Backends for Node.js — Whether you're a GraphQL enthusiast, a Node.js developer, or someone striving for optimal API performance, this guide will equip you enough to accelerate your API creation journey and focus on meaningful backend work.

Node's 2023, Summarized in An Article — Rafael, of the Node.js TSC and Fastify core team, shares a useful update on the evolution of Node.js over the past year, how the team ensures Node is well tested and reliable, changes to Node’s vendor dependencies (of which it gained three in 2023), as well as enhancements to Node’s security and Web presence.

Preventing SQL Injection Attacks in Node — Learn more about why and where SQL injection attacks pose a threat and some initial ways to shield your Node apps against them.

Sentry is Hosting SFNode Meetup on Feb 29 — Sentry is hosting SFNode community on Feb 29th in San Francisco. Register here to join us in person.

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.

Creating Your Own Vector Search in 5 Minutes with SQLite & Node — sqlite-vss is a SQLite extension that adds basic vector storage and querying capabilities to SQLite, and you can combine it with Node and OpenAI embeddings to create your own natural language vector based search system reasonably quickly.

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..)

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.

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.)