Pika/Pack: A New Approach to npm Package Building — Pack connects pre-configured plugins (e.g. Babel and Rollup) to build and optimize your package for you. It’s a bit like a webpack or Parcel but specifically for building npm packages.

Fred K. Schott

Next.js 8 Released — Next.js is a popular React-oriented framework for building universal and otherwise server-side apps using React. This new release brings serverless deployment support, several key performance improvements and smaller initial HTML size.

Neutkens, Davis and Ding

Learn a Thing or Two (Or Three) About Building Apps on Slack — Whether you’re new to Slack or an expert app builder, there’s something for everyone at Frontiers. New this year: 3 tracks filled with speakers, sessions and workshops — including one designed just for you. Register today to reserve your spot.

Slack sponsor

'The npm package ownership process is flawed..' — If you don’t respond to an email within 30 days, could someone else be added as an owner of your npm package? A weird story, this. Meanwhile, it seems someone may have sold their npm package name to someone else.

Max Irwin on Hacker News

DeskGap: A Lightweight Alternative to Electron — A new, lighter weight way to build cross-platform desktop apps with Node, HTML and CSS. It’s lighter than Electron as it doesn’t bundle Chromium and instead relies on the operating system’s own webview control.

Chi Wang

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 GitHub projects and we'll do the rest. Find a role based on your skills, average salary £70k.

hackajob

Processing Large Volumes of Data Safely using Node and Postgres — About designing a Postgres client for Node.js.

Gajus Kuizinas

Back-Off and Retry using Arrays and Promises — If you’re calling third-party services you might need to adhere to rate limits and back off and retry again later if you hit them..

Phil Booth

Boosting JavaScript: from MongoDB's Shell to Node.js — Moving a script from MongoDB’s JavaScript-powered shell to Node.js offers a chance to get to use an enormous range of tools and libraries.

MongoDB sponsor

Instrumenting HTTP Requests in Node

Trevor Livingston

HTML Snapshot Testing with Node — Using Node for snapshot testing of HTML files generated for inclusion in daily report emails.

Jordan Nelson

10 Node Frameworks Worth Checking Out: Express, Loopback, Hapi, & Beyond — A basic run-down but might put some new things on your radar.

Sanjay Ratnottar

deploy-to-kube: Deploy Your Node App to Kubernetes with a Single Command — Supports any Kubernetes cluster whether self hosted or on Google, Amazon, Digital Ocean, etc. Or even KubeSail’s free environment.

KubeSail

BundlePhobia: Find The Cost of Adding An npm Package to Your Bundle

Shubham Kanodia

Debug Faster With Context Based Logging

Timber.io sponsor

Redactyl.js: Redact Sensitive Information From JSON for Logging — Love the name of this. Redactyl recursively looks through JSON objects ensuring appropriate things are redacted for logging purposes (e.g. passwords or API keys).

Robert Pisani

Qoa: Minimal Interactive Command-Line Prompts — No dependencies. Supports 7 types of user input control at the terminal.

Klaus Sinani

Smoke: Simple File-Based Mock Server with Recording Abilities — For example, create a file called people.json with a JSON object in it, and it’ll get served up at /api/people.

Yohan Lasorsa

git-history: Quickly Browse the History of any GitHub File — Can be easily run using npx too.

Rodrigo Pombo

role-acl: Role Based Access Control using Actions, Attributes and Conditions — An extension of AccessControl.

tensult

Motrix: A Full-Featured Download Manager in Electron — Always neat to see a full open sourced Electron app as there’s often something to learn from it.

Dr Root