#255 — September 13, 2018

Read on the Web

Node Weekly

Next Generation Package Management with Cruxcrux is a new, experimental JavaScript package manager from the folks at npm, Inc, that aims to provoke new thoughts on how package management should be handled.

The npm Blog

Node v10.10.0 (Current) Released — npm moves up to version 6.4.1, native code coverage information can now be saved to disk, the http2 module is no longer experimental, and much more. Node 8.12.0 (LTS) is also out which also updates npm, libuv, and makes n-api non-experimental.

Node.js Foundation

Burn Your Logs — Use Sentry's open source error tracking to get to the root cause of issues. Setup only takes 5 minutes.

Sentry sponsor

Debugging A Node.js Application Using ndb — ndb provides an improved debugging experience for Node.js, enabled by Chrome DevTools, and this is an easily understood walkthrough.

Nitay Neeman

A Proposal to Get Rid of 'node_modules' — It’s early days for this discussion but there’s a lot of chatter about this right now (such as on Hacker News). Full PDF of the proposal.

Yarn

NLP.js: Natural Language Utilities for Node — An NLP library that can guess the language of a phrase, do stemming/tokenization, sentiment analysis, and more.

AXA

💻 Jobs

Senior Engineer, LA — At SG Sr. Engineers build both customer facing solutions to drive engagement and internal tools to support restaurant operations.

sweetgreen

Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With a Job You Love — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities and job details.

Hired

📘 Articles & Tutorials

8 Steps to Building A Serverless GraphQL API using AWS Amplify

Nader Dabit

How to Prevent Unsafe HTTP Redirects in Node

Joe Pelletier

Build a Netflix Style Video Platform - Node API Client — Play videos at the same quality and speed as Netflix & YouTube. API clients for all major languages.

Bitmovin sponsor

Add 2FA to a Nuxt Application with Nexmo VerifyNuxt.js is a framework for building universal Vue.js apps.

Martyn Davies

Defining Roles-based Security ACLs and Supporting Multitenancy in the Strongloop Loopback Framework

Steve Drucker

Generating Random User Agents with Google Analytics and CircleCIuser-agents is a Node.js package for producing random, up to date user agents, but this is also the tale of how such data is being obtained.

Evan Sangaline

▶  Building a Real-Time Translation App From Scratch — Re-watch this livestream and code along, making a real-time translation app from scratch using Node and Tensorflow.js.

Siraj Raval

CPU Profiling in Production Node.js Applications

StackImpact sponsor

Why Should Your Node App Not Handle Log Routing?

Corey Cleary

🔧 Code and Tools

User Agents: A Library for Generating Random, But Real-Looking, User Agents

Intoli

Taiko: A Library and REPL to Automate Chrome/Chromium — Includes a REPL mode and is more designed to work with a visible, rather than headless, browser instance.

Gauge

Express.js Boilerplate for Building RESTful APIs — A starter project to build a REST-based API service with Node.js that uses MongoDB for storage.

Daniel Sousa

Drome: Yet Another JavaScript Task Runner

Konrad Przydział

Puppeteer 1.8.0 Released: The Headless Chrome Node API — The latest release operates at Chromium 71 standards and browser permissions can now be managed with browserContext.overridePermissions.

Google Chrome Team