#276 — February 21, 2019 |
Node Weekly |
Ten Liran Tal and Juan Picado |
Node v11.10.0 (Current) Released — Upgrades for both libuv and npm (to 6.7) and a few (very) minor new features like a histogram based API for perf monitoring and Node.js Foundation |
Design for Developers ✨ New Course by Sarah Drasner — Become more self-sufficient for the entire process for execution, from concept to design to implementation. Understand the rules for designing and learn to create complex and beautiful front-end experiences. Frontend Masters sponsor |
The Security Risks of Changing Package Owners — “We’ve had a few situations recently which illustrate that people are a layer beneath the code and the actions of maintainers have a direct impact on the security of the ecosystem. Specifically event-stream and koa-router.” The npm Blog |
Node.js Core Team Considering Dropping ARMv6 Support for Node 12+ — This won’t affect many of you, but if it does (such as if you’re a Pi Zero or Raspberry Pi 1 user), it’s time to have your say. Node.js Foundation |
NodeSource Announces New Pricing for Smaller Teams — N|Solid is a mature platform for building and monitoring solid and secure Node apps, but it’s long been available only under enterprise-level pricing. No more. NodeSource |
💻 Jobs |
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📘 Tutorials and Opinions |
The Code Barbarian |
Divide and Conquer: Scale Your Node App using Distributed Queues Alberto Gimeno |
Share Your Whole Stack with Your Team, on Any Cloud, with One Workflow 🧑🤝🧑 Manifold sponsor |
nodejs.dev: A Solid Introduction to Node.js — This week, Google began to offer Flavio Copes |
Using Node 11.7 Worker Threads with RxJS Observable Brian de Sousa |
How to Run Your Node App on a Headless Raspberry Pi Bogdan Covrig |
🔧 Code and Tools |
Bull: A Redis-Based Queue for Node — Prides itself on both performance and ‘rock solid stability’. Check the examples for an idea of the API. Looks nice. Manuel Astudillo |
Leon: A Node-Powered Open-Source Personal Assistant — There’s a demo video if you want to get the idea quickly. Louis Grenard |
Route Your Data to Any Analytics Service from Your Node Code Segment sponsor |
dbus-next: A New DBus Library for Node — DBus is a message bus system currently primarily used as a mechanism for Linux desktop apps to talk to each other. Tony Crisci |
fast-cli: Test Your Download and Upload Speed using Fast.com — A good example of how a simple Node-powered command line tool can be written and packaged. Sindre Sorhus |
capture-website: Capture Screenshots of Websites — A high-level Puppeteer wrapper to make it easy to capture screenshots of websites from Node or the command-line. Sindre Sorhus |