#256 — September 20, 2018 |
Node Weekly |
Gatsby 2.0: The Node and React-Powered Site Generator — The popular site and app generator Gatsby is emphasizing performance and developer experience in its latest release with build times reduced by up to 75%, the use of React 16, and a smaller client runtime. Kyle Mathews |
Low.js: A Node Port for Embedded Devices — V8 is replaced with Duktape, an embeddable JS engine with an even smaller footprint suited for small devices. GitHub repo. neonious GmbH |
⚛️ New Course: Complete Intro to React, v4 — Learn to build real-world applications in React. Much more than an intro, you’ll start from the ground up all the way to using the latest features in React 16+ like Context and Portals. We also launched a follow up course, Intermediate React. Frontend Masters sponsor |
Improving DataView Performance in V8 — Théotime Grohens and Benedikt Meurer |
Node v10.11.0 (Current) Released — Not a significant release in terms of new things to play with. Node.js Foundation |
Planning for Chalk 3 — Chalk is one of the most popular npm packages and makes it easy to colorize and stylize text on the terminal. Sindre wants your input and suggestions on how to make Chalk 3 even better. Sindre Sorhus |
💻 Jobs |
Senior Engineer @ Meadow (San Francisco) — Join Meadow as our fifth engineer to work on our specialized SaaS platform. We use Node.js, Postgres & React everyday. Meadow |
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 |
📘 Tutorials |
Creating a Project using 'npm init initializer' — Elijah Manor |
How to Bundle a Node App Into a Single Executable for Windows, Linux and macOS — Using pkg. Jochem Stoel |
A Beginner’s Guide to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Node — Elastic Beanstalk is an orchestration service for deploying webapps onto Amazon Web Services. Harrison Lo |
Eleven Tips to Scale Node.js — Some rather high level suggestions in this collaboration between nearForm and Microsoft. Brian Holt |
How to Run Express.js Apps with Netlify Functions — Netlify is a popular static Web site host whose Functions service adds AWS Lambda-powered serverless functions to the mix. Mark Tse |
The Most Innovative Businesses Are Deploying Apps on DigitalOcean — Experience the developer-friendly cloud platform today with a free $100 credit toward your first project. DigitalOcean sponsor |
Build a Telegram Bot that Translates Text in 3 Steps with Node and Code.xyz Steve Meyer |
How to Send an SMS Text Message using Amazon SNS from Node South Joovin |
Unit Testing for Node.js Serverless Framework Projects with Jest Eslam Hefnawy |
🔧 Code and Tools |
Lyo: Publish Node.js Modules as Browser-Compatible Libraries — A tool that brings Browserify, Babel, and UglifyJS together. Boris K |
BundlePhobia: Find The Cost of Adding An npm Package to Your Bundle Shubham Kanodia |
Electron 3.0: The Cross Platform Desktop App Framework GitHub |
circuit-b: A Non-Intrusive Circuit Breaker — Uses async hooks to provide fault protection for HTTP requests. Works at the net socket level to support almost any Node HTTP library. Trygve Lie |
Manifold is the Marketplace for Independent Developer Services 🎉 Manifold sponsor |
WWWBasic: An Implementation of BASIC for the Web — As well as supporting writing BASIC directly in your HTML, it can also be used as a Node module :-D |
Deploify: Create Temporary Staging Environments on Heroku from Bitbucket Pull Requests — If you prefer GitHub, Heroku already has this feature. Flavio Li Volsi |