Node and JavaScript Testing Best Practices — A well presented collection of 30 best practices for better Node and JavaScript testing, continuous integration, and overall quality.

Yoni Goldberg

Experimenting with Node 12's Async Stack Traces — Node 12 isn’t here yet but that doesn’t have to stop you experimenting with a new option that aims to make debugging async functions easier.

Valeri Karpov

Redis Data Types in 2019 — An overview of all data structures provided in the latest version of Redis.

RedisGreen sponsor

Trash Talk: V8's Orinoco Garbage Collector — Orinoco is a high-performance, low-latency, mostly parallel and concurrent garbage collector. Here, Peter Marshall explains its main features and what is yet to come.

Peter Marshall

Node 11.6.0, 10.15.0, 8.15.0 and 6.16.0 Released — Why? LTS releases 10.15.0, 8.15.0 and 6.16.0 are just to fix a regression and to add a flag to adjust the max header size of the HTTP parser. 11.6.0 (Current) does the same but also includes a few minor bugfixes and tweaks (including upgrades to npm 6.5.0 and libuv 1.24.1).

Node.js Foundation

Practical Node.js Book Published in Print — There was a (successful) Kickstarter campaign to release an open, online version of this book, but now it’s available in full color in print form (yes, syntax highlighted code!) Direct publisher link.

Azat Mardan

npm, Inc. Has a New CEO, Bryan Bogensberger — Isaac Z Schlueter becomes Chief Product Officer.

The npm Blog

Node.js Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands.

X-Team

Sr. Back-End Developer - Node/Mongo/Angular/AWS (Atlanta) — Growing HealthIT startup with modern stack. Major focus on company culture and prof. development. Competitive comp+options.

FLORENCE

100+ Node.js and JavaScript Roles on hackajob — Upload your projects from GitHub and we'll do the rest. Find a role based on your skills, average salary £70k.

hackajob

Using worker_threads in Node — A beginner’s guide to using worker_threads, Node’s new experimental way to create multiple environments running on different threads and channel messages between them.

Rich Trott

Aliasing Module Paths in Node — A look at a way to avoid ‘relative path hell’ when requiring modules. Note that Webpack and TypeScript have their own built-in solutions to this problem.

Arun Michael Dsouza

Automated Visual Testing and Reviews on Each Commit — Replace time-consuming manual QA to catch visual UI bugs automatically and start deploying faster.

Percy sponsor

Five Common Mistakes in Every Node App

Alejandro Oviedo

Build a Personal Facebook Messenger Bot with Node and Standard Library — Standard Library is a service that runs code in the cloud.

Bal Simpson

How to Debug Node in A Docker Container

Alex Barashkov

Phantom Pain: The First Year Running Headless Chrome in Production — Not Node.js specific, but heavy users of Puppeteer are likely to find these notes useful.

Joel Griffith

Electron 4.0 Released — Electron is a popular Node-based project used to create desktop apps with modern Web technologies. 4.0 bumps up the underlying tech to Chromium 69, Node 10.11, and V8 6.9.

Michelle Tilley

You Can Now Create GitHub Pull Requests in VS Code

GitHub

Shop Like a Developer – Discover and Experiment with Hot New Cloud Services 🔥

Manifold sponsor

Low.js: A Node Port for Embedded Devices — Has far lower system requirements than standard Node and can now be flashed on to ESP32-WROVER boards. Here’s how.

neonious GmbH

Trilium Notes: A Knowledge Base App Built on Express.js — A hierarhical note taking app. Built as an Express app but also includes Electron packaging.

zadam

string-similarity: Finds Degree of Similarity Between Two Strings — Uses the Sørensen–Dice coefficient which is better than Levenshtein distance for many use cases.

Akash K