---
title: "Ways to become a better Node developer in 2019"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 267
published_at: "2018-12-13"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/267"
---

The latest Node.js news, articles, tools, and projects.       

#267 — December 13, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/267)   

Node Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/pm8jfcireuj6dnalkqaz.jpg)](https://medium.com/@me_37286/19-ways-to-become-a-better-node-js-developer-in-2019-ffd3a8fbfe38)  

[19 Ways to Become a Better Node Developer in 2019](https://medium.com/@me_37286/19-ways-to-become-a-better-node-js-developer-in-2019-ffd3a8fbfe38) — Highlights tips, skills and strategies that may prove valuable over the coming months, such as having a package update plan in place, though the suggestion to _“be a bit more Java and a byte less Ruby”_ makes me itch :-) 

Yoni Goldberg   

[Node v11.4.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v11.4.0/) — The `readline` module now supports async iterators, there’s an `ipv6Only` option for `net` and `dgram` if you don’t want dual-stack support, you can now [switch](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24739) between HTTP parsers from the command line, and more. 

Node.js Foundation   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/55458eeb.png)](https://circleci.com/blog/path-to-production-how-and-where-to-segregate-test-environments/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dec18&utm_content=node-weekly) 

[The Path to Production: How and Where to Segregate Test Environments](https://circleci.com/blog/path-to-production-how-and-where-to-segregate-test-environments/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dec18&utm_content=node-weekly) — Bringing a new tool into an organization is no small task. Adopting a CI/CD (or any tool) should see a span of research, analysis & alignment. 

CircleCi sponsor   

[Node.js API and Web Frameworks for 2019](https://checklyhq.com/blog/2018/12/node.js-api-and-web-frameworks-for-2019/) — A roundup that doesn’t just focus on the usual favorites like Express, Koa, and Hapi, but digs into alternatives like Nest, Adonis and Fastify too. 

Tim Nolet   

[Debug Your Node.js App in 60 Seconds](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/debug-your-node-js-app-in-60-seconds-9ee942a453f0) — If you want the fastest Node.js debugging setup possible, use VS Code, enable _“auto attach”_ and once your Node app is run in any way, _“the debugger lights up in VS Code!”_ Neat. 

John Papa   

[The Node.js Community Store](https://store.nodejs.org/) — Did you know that the Node.js project has an official swag store? It sells mugs, stickers, t-shirts, etc. and has some new items in this week if you want to treat yourself for Christmas. 

Node.js Community Store  

💻 Jobs  

[Node.js Developer at X-Team (Remote)](https://x-team.com/remote-nodejs-developer-jobs/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=node) — We help our developers keep learning and growing every day. Unleash your potential. Work from anywhere. [Join X-Team](https://x-team.com/remote-nodejs-developer-jobs/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=node). 

x-team   

[100+ Node.js and JavaScript Roles on hackajob](https://hackajob.co/p/discover?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=node_nov_w4&utm_term=nodejs) — Upload your projects from GitHub and we'll do the rest. Find a role based on your skills, average salary £70k. 

hackajob  

📘 Tutorials  

[How to Build Fast REST APIs with Node, MongoDB, Fastify and Swagger](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-build-blazing-fast-rest-apis-with-node-js-mongodb-fastify-and-swagger-114e062db0c9) 

Siegfried Grimbeek   

[Serverless-Side Rendering with React, Next.js and AWS Lambda](https://statsbot.co/blog/a-crash-course-on-serverless-side-rendering-with-reactjs-nextjs-and-aws-lambda/) — A guide to having your cake and eating it in the form of doing server-side rendering of single page apps but _“serverlessly”_. 

Adnan Rahic   

[How to Deploy Express on Now.sh](https://dev.to/warenix/how-to-deploy-express-on-nowsh-414i) — A quick look at how to set up express API endpoints to run on version 2 of Now.sh. 

warenix   

[Run, Debug and Test Your Node.js Apps in WebStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=webstorm&utm_content=NodeWeekly) — Learn about smart code completion, built-in debugger, REST client, and integration with Mocha and Docker. 

JetBrains sponsor   

[Boosting JavaScript: From the Mongo Shell to Node.js](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/boosting-javascript-from-mongo-shell-to-nodejs) — MongoDB’s `mongo` shell runs JavaScript under the hood and lets you create powerful scripts to work with a MongoDB instance, but what about when you want to take those scripts and run them on Node.js? It’s possible. 

Dj Walker-Morgan   

[Upload Files to Google Cloud Storage from Node](https://www.woolha.com/tutorials/node-js-upload-file-to-google-cloud-storage) 

Ivan Andrianto   

▶[Flying a Drone with React and Node.js in 100% JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFvGf7Ywkk) — Wes Bos does a cool demo of flying a DJI Tello drone using Node.js along with a React-based front-end controller. There’s also the opportunity to win a drone of your own to code. 

Wes Bos   

[Node.js in Production with Tierney Cyren](https://realtalkjavascript.simplecast.fm/a903b75a) — Tierney Cyren talks with John and Ward about all things Node and how to use it in production. 

Real Talk JavaScript  

🔧 Code and Tools  

[Node v10.14.2 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.14.2/) — Very minor tweaks to the LTS release including an update to the underlying DNS request library, `c-ares`. 

Node.js Foundation   

[Sharp: High Performance Node.js Image Processing](https://github.com/lovell/sharp) — Claims to be the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images. 

Lovell Fuller   

[Nest.JS: A Progressive Node.js Web Framework](https://nestjs.com/) 

Kamil Myśliwiec   

[Track Data Once with Segment and Send It to 200+ Tools. Get Started for Free](https://segment.com/?utm_source=nodenl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ss) 

Segment sponsor   

[mongodb-memory-server: Spin up MongoDB in Memory for Faster Testing](https://github.com/nodkz/mongodb-memory-server) — Spins up a real MongoDB Server programmatically from Node.js for testing or mocking during development and hold data in memory by default. 

Pavel Chertorogov   

[Puppeteer for Firefox: Control Firefox from Node.js](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/tree/master/experimental/puppeteer-firefox#readme) — An experimental project for controlling Firefox using Puppeteer’s API. 

Google Chrome Developers   

[An AWS Lambda Serverless Next.js Example Project](https://github.com/Prefinem/aws-lambda-serverless-nextjs) 

William Something         

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