Node Weekly Issue 245: July 5, 2018

#245 — July 5, 2018

Experimental ‘promisified’ DNS module
fs.lchown() has been un-deprecated
N-API adds API for asynchronous functions
libuv upgraded to v1.21.0
Atomics.wake is being renamed to Atomics.notify

Node.js Foundation

Building a Screenshot Capture Tool with Electron, React and Node — This basic tutorial threads together a few technologies in an interesting way.

Waleed Ahmad

Build a Netflix Style Video Delivery Infrastructure — Bitmovin Encoding and Player delivers adaptive video at the same quality and speed as Netflix and Youtube. APIs for all major clients including Node, Golang, C#, PHP, Python and more. HLS and DASH in H.264, HEVC, VP9 and AV1. Try it now for free.

Bitmovin sponsor

Meet the Node.js Security Working Group — Highlights the work being done by the Node.js Security Working Group and how they’re improving the state of security for the Node ecosystem.

Liran Tal

A Node.js Perspective on MongoDB 4.0: Transactions — MongoDB 4.0 was released last week with the headline feature being multi-document ACID transaction support - here’s a look at how that works from a Node.js perspective.

The Code Barbarian

The Node Security Platform Service Is Shutting Down — It will stop working on September 28, 2018, but the good news is npm now offers security advisories out of the box, so upgrade to 6.x when you can.

The npm Blog

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📘 Tutorials & Articles

▶ Asynchrony: Under the Hood — Filmed at the recent JSConf EU, this talk deftly explores the conceptual underpinnings of asynchronous programming approaches, and the drawbacks and advantages of each.

Shelley Vohr

Take Our 5-Min Survey & Win a Chance at a Lego Mindstorm — We want to know your pain points building & programming open source languages. We've got 3 cool prizes too.

ActiveState sponsor

A Crash Course on Serverless APIs with Express and MongoDB

Adnan Rahić

Debugging Node Code in Visual Studio Code

James Quick

What Interview Questions Would You Ask Someone Who Claims to be a Node Expert?

🔧 Code and Tools

npm v6.2.0-next.0 Released — Bug fixes, dependency updates, etc.

The npm Blog

MongoDB 4.0 Is Now Generally Available. Try It Now on MongoDB Atlas

MONGODB sponsor

Nativefier: Wrap Any Web Page Natively on Windows, macOS or Linux — Could be handy for any dashboards or services you have.