#308 — October 3, 2019 |
Node Weekly |
How Liran Tal |
Node-RED 1.0 Released — Node RED is a flow-based, visual programming tool (aimed primarily at hardware automation) that’s built on top of Node.js. Despite only reaching 1.0 now, it’s a mature project. Nick O'Leary |
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npm Turns 10 Years Old — It took a couple of years to really explode in use, but The npm Blog |
A Look at V8 v7.8 — Every six weeks we’re treated to a look at the newest release of the V8 JavaScript engine (which Node tends to adopt about a month later). v7.8 continues to improve performance (such as with faster object destructuring) and has some improvements for WebAssembly users too (there’s now a way to use V8 solely as a WebAssembly execution engine from C/C++). Roll on November. Ingvar Stepanyan |
Node.js 8 is Not Supported from 2020 (So Update Now) — Did you know that Node 8 won’t get any more maintenance updates after December 31 this year? Here’s how to think about migrating. Tamas Kadlecsik and Ferenc Hámori |
Node v12.11.1 (Current) Released — A very minor release that fixed a regression that prevented being able to build Node 12.11.0 from the official tarball. Node.js Foundation |
💻 Jobs |
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📚 Articles and Tutorials |
How to Build Cross-Platform, Native Desktop Apps with NodeGUI — A beginner’s guide to NodeGUI, a tool for building native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS styling in a more lightweight way than using Electron. James Hibbard |
▶ Let's Build a 16-Bit Virtual Machine in JavaScript — This is a ‘rabbithole which goes really deep’ warns Francis, but you’ll learn a lot of interesting things along the way. Low Level JavaScript |
Top 10 GitHub Best Practices - Lessons from Thousands of Repositories — Implementing these best practices could save you time, improve code maintainability, and prevent security risks. Datree.io sponsor |
Crafting Build Pipelines with Docker — An exploration of using a multi-stage build for a Node.js application. Ashley Davis |
Working with Node.js on Hyper-V and WSL2 Brian De Sousa |
Starting Your Own Community Lunch Group — Not Node specific but something worth doing if you have the right people nearby. Keith R. Bennett |
How to Generate a PDF Using Node, React, and Headless Chrome Logan Bittner |
🛠 Code and Tools |
nvm 0.35.0: A Script to Manage Multiple Node Versions — Perhaps the most popular way to manage multiple Node installs on the same machine. It doesn’t get a new release very often, so enjoy. nave is a similar tool with a different approach if you’re surveying this area. nvm.sh |
OIDC Provider: OpenID Certified OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Implementation — An OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server with OpenID Connect and additional features and standards implemented. Filip Skokan |
Typegoose: Define Mongoose Models using TypeScript Classes — If you’re a Node developer and using Mongoose and want to be using TypeScript, this is for you. Typegoose |
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Taiko: A Library and REPL to Automate Chrome — Includes a REPL mode and is more designed to work with a visible, rather than headless, browser instance. Gauge |
timequeue.js: A Queue with Custom Concurrency and Time Limits Fent |
node-rate-limiter-flexible: Limit Number of Actions by Key and Protect Apps from Brute Force Attacks Roman Animir |