#527 — April 9, 2024 |
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zx v8.0: Google's Way to Write Shell Scripts with Node — A long-standing way to make scripting a more pleasant experience. zx provides useful wrappers around |
Build a RAG Chatbot App with MongoDB and Node.js — Embark on the RAG to Riches Developer Quest — a month of innovation, learning, and exclusive rewards awaits you. You’ll interact with AI-enhanced bots and learn how to build your own with Atlas Vector Search and Node.js. Register now! MongoDB sponsor |
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The April 3 Node.js Security Releases — Includes v18.20.1 (LTS), v20.12.1 (LTS) and v21.7.2 (Current), each rolling out fixes to llhttp and Undici to tackle two HTTP related vulnerabilities. The Node.js Project |
⚠️ There's also a set of April 9 security releases likely to land later today, if you'd prefer to wait for those. |
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Bun 1.1 Released with Windows Support — With the codename Bundows, the popular alternative JS runtime can now run directly on Windows 10+ (plus WSL, macOS and Linux, etc). This is a key step in Bun's broader adoption vs Node, and even features like Bun Shell work on Windows. Node compatibility continues to improve too with support for The Bun Team |
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IN BRIEF:
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Node.js Debugging in Chrome DevTools — If Chris didn’t know how to do it, I’m going to predict many readers don’t either, so his simple example of setting it up might be helpful :-) Chris Coyier |
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Migrating 500+ Tests from Mocha to Node.js — A quick retrospective of how the Astro team migrated more than 500 test suites from Mocha to the Node.js test runner. Astro |
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Versioning Workflows with TypeScript — Learn when and how to apply versioning, then practice using our TypeScript SDK in this free, hands-on training course. Temporal Technologies sponsor |
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How to Implement Rate Limiting in Express.js — A practical walk through a simple setup. A viable option against certain bots and users, though not a universal solution for DDoS or determined attackers. Antonello Zanini |
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🤖 A Quick First Look at Amazon Bedrock (with Node) – Amazon Bedrock is AWS's service for working with various machine learning models. Raymond Camden 📄 Building an Article Recommendation System with Upstash, Fly and OpenAI Rishi Raj Jain 📄 Managing Node.js Processes “why I think using 📺 Building a Modular Monolith with Fastify Matteo Molina 📄 Understanding Threads in Node.js Pavel Romanov |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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JS-Torch: A PyTorch-Like Library for JavaScript — Python’s PyTorch is one of the gold standards amongst machine learning libraries, but this project brings some of its features directly into the JavaScript world. Early days but this could become a big deal for ML in JS? Eduardo Leao |
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Flyweight: An ORM Specifically for SQLite — Some interesting ideas here, a little different to your typical ORM. Andrew Jones |
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📊 Counterscale: Scalable Web Analytics You Can Run on Cloudflare — A simple web analytics tracker and dashboard that’s designed to be easy to deploy and maintain by hosting it on Cloudflare (for free too, up to a certain level). Ben Vinegar |
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Janeway: A Node Console REPL with Object Inspection — Has some neat features including being able to look into buffers with a built-in hex viewer. Eleven Ways |
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