#240 — May 31, 2018 |
Node Weekly |
From npm to yarn and Back (to npm) Again — Last year, Mixmax Engineering Blog |
Scalable Node with Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine — Describes itself as a “one-stop-shop styled walkthrough of what it takes to deploy a containerized Node.js app on a scalable, cloud-based Kubernetes cluster with Google’s Kubernetes Engine.” Eric O'Rear |
Full-Stack Monitoring for Node Apps — Utilize distributed tracing and interactive flame graphs to track performance and troubleshoot Node applications. Monitor and alert on infrastructure metrics, request traces, and logs in real-time. Try Datadog free. Datadog sponsor |
How npm is Affected by a Recently Disclosed Git Vulnerability — npm CLI users should make sure they have git version 2.17.1 or later installed to protect against a recent code execution vulnerability involving git submodules. The npm Blog |
Node v10.3.0 (Current) Released —
Node.js Foundation |
How to Build a Node Command-Line Chat App with Chatkit — Building chat in your app can be pretty complex. Yet, with Chatkit (from Pusher, and currently in free beta mode) implementing fully-featured chat is a few lines of code. Hugo Müller-Downing |
Storm in a Teapot: Anger Brews Over npm's Jokey Proxy Error Messages — The Register gets the link for the work the put into the puns.. Basically, the npm repository was issuing 418 I’m a Teapot HTTP errors for a few hours under certain conditions. The Register |
WorkerConf 2018: A Node.js Industry Event in the Alps — Mountains, hiking, and industry experts discussing the future of Node.js in Dornbirn, Austria on June 28. Guntram Bechtold |
💻 Jobs |
Sr. Fullstack Engineer (Remote) — Sticker Mule is looking for passionate developers to join our remote team. Come help us become the Internet’s best place to shop and work. Sticker Mule |
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📘 Tutorials |
Getting Started With Ripple (XRP) and Node.js — Ripple is a popular blockchain protocol. Valeri Karpov |
DigitalOcean Blueprints: Build Multi-Server Infrastructure for Node.js — Learn how to build scalable, multi-server infrastructure with NGINX, Node.js, and MongoDB. DigitalOcean sponsor |
Building a YouTube MP3 Downloader with Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda Evan Sangaline |
Deploy Your Webpack Apps to Heroku in 3 Simple Steps Rajesh Babu |
Create a Simple Weather App using Node, Express, and React Maison Moa |
How Well Do You Know Your npm Trivia? — A light hearted quiz around things like npm’s mascot and the size of the official registry. JAXenter |
How-To: Achieve Observability in Modern Applications 🔭 ROLLBAR sponsor |
Remote Debugging of Node Apps on Azure App Service From WebStorm Maarten Balliauw |
🔧 Code and Tools |
deyarn: A Tool for Converting Projects from 'yarn' to 'npm' — The opposite of npm2yarn. Mixmax, Inc |
node-typescript-support: TypeScript Support for Node.js — Node.js Avi Vahl |
Smart-Spinner: Simply Create Smart Text 'Spinners' — Provide feedback of your app’s internal status without flooding the console or logs. Joan Miquel Torres |
Deno: A Secure TypeScript Runtime on V8 6.8 — An interesting idea from the original creator of Node.js, Ryan Dahl. It’s ‘segfaulty’ and not Node or npm compatible, but ‘Deno’ is an anagram of ‘Node’.. :-) Ryan Dahl |