Node Weekly Issue 195: July 6, 2017

Node Weekly

July 6, 2017 #195

Sindre Sorhus

Chalk 2.0: Terminal String Styling and Colorizing

The 5th most depended upon npm package takes another step forward with full ‘true color’ (24 bit) support, plus an ability to use tagged template literals.

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Tamas Kadlecsik

Mastering Async Await in Node

Simplify your callback or Promise based Node apps with async functions with async/await.

The npm Blog

The npm CLI's Long Term Support (LTS) Policy

There are no specific LTS releases but they backport security fixes to npm versions shipping with supported Node versions.

Chris Ward

Podcast: Why Enteprise Devs Need a 'Safer' Node

A 30 minute interview with NodeSource’s Pravin Halady on “why enterprise developers might need a safer and more secure version of Node.js and npm”.

In Brief

4 Ways to Make HTTP(S) Requests from Node tutorial
The pros of cons of four different libraries for making HTTP requests.
Valentino Gagliardi
Deploying Node & Mongo Containers on AWS Elastic Container Service tutorial
Azat Mardan
Launching Production Node Apps with PM2 tutorial
Alex Allen
Running a DHCP Server from Node tutorial
Robert Eisele
How to Mock a Dependency in Node, and Why tutorial
Defining Mongoose Models Using TypeScript Classes tutorial
Ákos Szokodi
Introducing BrowserView for Electron story
A new way to embed web apps with fewer bugs and more performance.
Figma Design
Why Developers Are Replacing npm With Yarn opinion
CircleCI Sponsor
Why Use SemVer / Semantic Versioning? opinion
And how it has ‘changed the way we write JavaScript’.
The npm Blog
Create a Node.js GraphQL Server: A Series video
How to use GraphQL, ExpressJS and Mongoose to serve a GraphQL endpoint.
Jamie Barton
Creating Azure Functions with JavaScript in 2 Minutes video
John Papa and Brian Clark
Static and Dynamic Next.js video
This talk explores the two powerful new features of Next.js: static exports and dynamic imports.
Guillermo Rauch
Track Node apps in real time tools
Visualize custom performance & usage metrics, correlate with 200+ other techs, & set sophisticated alerts.
Datadog Sponsor
bundlesize: Keep Your Bundle Size in Check tools
Siddharth Kshetrapal
KeystoneJS: The Best Node.js Alternative to WordPress? tools
James Kolce
Search and Install npm Modules Automatically from the Atom Editor tools
Algolia
Get 3 months free when you migrate your app to MongoDB Atlas tools
Make the switch to the only MongoDB service from the team that builds MongoDB and we’ll give you 3 months of free usage.
MONGODB Sponsor
Audiogram: Turn Audio Into a Shareable Video code
Ideal for social media. We tested it here.
New York Public Radio
timercore: A Precision Timer Library for Node code
Felipe Vargas
Stacer: A Linux System Optimizer and Monitor code
Written as an Electron app.
Oguzhan Inan