~nodeweekly | Issue 532 - Running other processes from Node, but better (12)

Execa 9.0: The Better child_process Gets Even Better — Less shell-oriented than zx, execa focuses on making executing external commands secure, cross-platform, and easy to debug. v9 lets you make commands iterable so you can process their output on the fly, map/filter both input and output, pipe multiple commands, and more. GitHub repo.

Secure M2M Authentication and Authorization in Node.js — Learn how to implement the OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant flow for secure machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication in Node.js with Stytch. Plus, get started with 1,000 M2M tokens free.

Node v20.13.0 (LTS) Released — A lot of small backports to boost the performance of the current LTS release of Node a little. Most notably, watch mode becomes stable, but also base64 and base64url are now a lot faster, CustomEvent goes stable, and typed arrays are supported in streams. 20.13.1 landed a few days later to fix a Windows related bug.

Hot Module Replacement (HMR) Now in AdonisJS — AdonisJS is a popular TypeScript-first Web framework for Node and you can now use HMR to modify your dev app on the fly without restarting.

🪝 Hot Hook: Simple Hot Module Replacement for Node + ESM — Following directly on from the Adonis news (above), Hot Hook is the library they use to pull it off, but it can be used to enhance apps that aren’t Adonis-based, too.

'How I Made My GitHub Profile README Dynamic' — There’s no Node here, alas, but I thought it was a good demo of how it’s not too tricky to give your GitHub profile some extra flair by pulling in your blog posts or other stats of choice.

GraphQL Yoga: A Full-Featured GraphQL Server — Create a schema, spin up a server, and you’re good to go (then you get to wire everything up). Supports GraphQL subscriptions via SSE. Designed to run across numerous environments from Node to AWS Lambda, Deno, Bun etc. GitHub repo.

Better-SSE: A Dependency-Free Server-Sent Events Library — Server-sent events (SSE) is an API supported by browsers for allowing server-side processes to send events in realtime to frontends without WebSockets. Better-SSE makes working with SSE a smoother experience in Node.

Transformational Auth & Identity | Userfront — "Compared to our previous experiences in the security/auth space, Userfront is an order of magnitude simpler to use."

Better SQLite3 10.0: Fast and Simple SQLite3 Library — ..and with good docs too. Supports a lot of SQLite specific functionality, has a synchronous API that boasts better concurrency than an async one (why?), and worker thread support.

Ink 5.0: Build Interactive CLI Apps using React — A terminal-based React renderer so you can build command line apps using React-style components. While it’s a major release, there’s nothing new - the version number has been updated to reflect that Node 18+ is now a requirement.

NodeBB 3.7.5: Node-Based Forum Software — It’s been over a year since we linked to the mature Node-based forum system, but it’s still going strong. There’s a demo forum if you want to see how it looks.