#529 — April 23, 2024 |
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▶ A Node.js Streams Masterclass — What a treat! Join the creator of Fastify, as well as Node.js TSC member, on an hour long odyssey into the world of streams, a topic in which he specializes. He starts off quite poetically .. a stream is like an array over time .. before quickly getting on to some live coding and demos. This is one in a series of events put on by Platformatic. (75 minutes.) Matteo Collina |
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The Perf Gains of Adding a Task Runner to Node.js — Instead of running Yagiz Nizipli |
Fullstack & Backend Learning Path — Expand your abilities with our extensive full stack learning path — teaching you how to set up servers, create APIs, and deploy your code to the world. You'll learn VIM fundamentals, API design in Node.js, containers, DevOps, and much more. Frontend Masters sponsor |
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Learn OAuth 2.0 by Building Your Own OAuth Client — When the author was first learning OAuth, he found lots of concept heavy, code-light tutorials, so he’s built something that’s truly code-first. This is a fantastic way to show off some code (using Annotate) and worth a look even if the topic doesn’t interest you. Alex Yakubovsky |
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IN BRIEF:
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Building an npm Package Compatible with ESM and CJS in 2024 — Publishing packages compatible with both ECMAScript Modules (ESM) and CommonJS (CJS) is a valuable skill and Liran has a few quick tips. Liran Tal |
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RAG to Riches Developer Quest — Interact with AI-enhanced bots and learn to build your own RAG chatbot with Atlas Vector Search and Node.js. MongoDB sponsor |
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📄 Things I Learned from Organizing a Hybrid Unconference – The recent Node.js collaboration summit, specifically. Joyee Cheung 📄 How to Deploy Directus to Render.com – Directus is a Node-powered backend API layer backed by your SQL database of choice. Trust Jamin 📺 The Event Loop, Web APIs, and (Micro)task Queue Visualized – Lydia Hallie 📄 Containerize Node.js Applications at the Edge on RHEL and Fedora – Michael Dawson (Red Hat) 📄 A Short Guide to GitHub's Keyboard Shortcuts – Sara Verdi |
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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 pnpm |
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Hexo 7.2: Node.js-Powered SSG-Style Blog Framework — If you want to create a blog, write GitHub-Flavored Markdown, and have Node put it all together as a static site, this is for you (it’s a bit like Jekyll but using Node). The 7.2 release isn’t a big one feature-wise, but we haven’t covered Hexo for years :-) Tommy Chen |
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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. Salsita Software |
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