~nodeweekly | Issue 526 - Node gets a redesign (and a documentary) (11)

Diving into the Node.js Website Redesign — Yes, Node’s official homepage has an all new, clean, modern design. We like it! Front end engineer Brian Muenzenmeyer gives us a bit of a peek into what went into the rebuild, which has been a long time in the making.

▶  Node.js: The Documentary (An Origin Story) — Late last year, Honeypot released a Ruby on Rails documentary – now they’re back tackling Node. It’s an hour long, but covers the early history of Node particularly well. If you weren’t deep into the Node world in 2009-2015, this is is a fantastic way to get up to speed and flows really well.

Meet the Future of Data Delivery with Hasura DDN — Join us April 16 for an API innovation unveiling. Get a first look at Hasura Data Delivery Network: a unified, composable API with guaranteed performance, reliability, and security. Enable smooth collaboration across teams, no operational overhead.

Node.js TSC Confirms: No Intention to Remove npm from Distribution — It was looking touch-and-go for a hot minute there, but Node’s Technical Steering Committee has reached consensus that removing npm from the Node distribution is not a project goal, though discussions regarding enabling Corepack by default continue.

__dirname is Back in Node with ES Modules — In an ES module, instead of using __dirname or __filename, you can now use import.meta.dirname and import.meta.filename (this came with Node 20.11.0 (LTS) released in January).

Building a Micro HTMX SSR Framework — Matteo builds on an earlier tutorial about creating a ‘movie quotes’ app by exploring an alternative stack to use, based upon Fastify, Vite and HTMX.

Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit — A tour of several things to avoid to keep your code fast, complete with examples. While the performance ground upon which we walk is always shifting, these are mostly common sense ideas.

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.

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

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.