--- title: "Creating Custom JavaScript Syntax with Babel" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 309 published_at: "2019-10-10" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/309" --- This week's Node.js news, tutorials, and projects #309 — October 10, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/309) It's a pretty quiet week, so we're opening with a fun item :-) Remember to hit reply and send in your own projects for inclusion in future issues though! Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/qn9qk3ywgrynjdcjpnsz.jpg)](https://medium.com/@lakatos/releasing-ascii-themes-a-node-js-cli-interface-to-generate-vscode-themed-ascii-art-8ac516ad5f21) [ascii-themes: A Node CLI Interface to Generate VSCode Themed ASCII Art](https://medium.com/@lakatos/releasing-ascii-themes-a-node-js-cli-interface-to-generate-vscode-themed-ascii-art-8ac516ad5f21) — You have to fiddle a bit but the output from this is pretty neat if you like that console-based look. Alex Lakatos [Introducing _Create Next App_](https://nextjs.org/blog/create-next-app) — Create Next App sets up a modern React application powered by [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/) in one command. Next.js has a great ecosystem with lots of extensions and is an ideal way to play with React in a universal fashion. Also, [Next.js 9.1 just came out too](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-1). Joe Haddad and Tim Neutkens [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d659360d.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/nodeweekly) [The Easiest Way to Run Redis](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/nodeweekly) — Better monitoring, seamless scaling, durable and portable Redis hosting supporting all the latest features. RedisGreen sponsor [Creating Custom JavaScript Syntax with Babel](https://lihautan.com/creating-custom-javascript-syntax-with-babel/) — Wow, this is cool. An introduction to forking Babel and creating your _own_ custom JavaScript syntax. Tan Li Hau [Build Your Own Web Analytics Dashboard with Node](https://blog.logrocket.com/web-analytics-with-node-js/) — If you find Google Analytics needs more personality and customizability, here’s how to build your own web analytics dashboard with Node and the Google Analytics API. Jon Corbin [OpenJS Foundation Welcomes First Incubating Project: Node Version Manager (nvm)](https://openjsf.org/blog/2019/10/03/openjs-foundation-welcomes-first-project-node-version-manager-nvm/) — nvm will be the first project to enter the OpenJS Foundation, which formed in March of 2019 by the merger of the JS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation. Rachel Romoff 💻 Jobs [It’s Not Rocket Science . . . or Is It?](https://job.careersjs.com/4i2) — Our client is looking for a programmer with out-of-this-world skills and an attention to detail that would make NASA sit up and take notice. CareersJS [Find A Job Through Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-nodeweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-88879) — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery 📚 Articles and Tutorials [Build a Dependency Graph Profiler in JavaScript](https://blog.bitsrc.io/build-a-dependency-graph-profiler-in-js-caf087ce08ea) — Sadly the code is just giant screenshots, but it’s neat to see an approach to doing this. Chidume Nnamdi [Creating a Full-Text Search System with Node and Elasticsearch](https://www.jsmonday.dev/articles/38/full-text-search-with-node-js-and-elasticsearch-on-docker) — A walkthrough of creating an API that can do full text search. Also covers running Elasticsearch under Docker to keep things simple. Michele Riva [How to Migrate Node-Based AWS Lambda Functions to OpenFaaS](https://sysadmins.co.za/migrate-your-aws-node-js-lambda-function-to-openfaas/) — If you want to run your AWS Lambda functions on your own infrastructure, for example.. ([OpenFaaS](https://github.com/openfaas/faas) is a system for running a serverless functions system on top of Kubernetes.) Ruan Bekker [How CircleCI Processes Over 30 Million Builds Per Month](https://circleci.com/blog/update-how-circleci-processes-over-30-million-builds-per-month/) — This is our stack today. Our future stack will change to meet our user’s demand for solutions to more complex problems. CircleCi sponsor [Mongoose Design Pattern: Store What You Query For](http://thecodebarbarian.com/mongoose-schema-design-pattern-store-what-you-query-for.html) — One for you Mongoose/MongoDB users. Valeri Karpov [All the Most Useful `git` Commands Showed Off in a Single Script](https://bitbucket.org/BitPusher16/dotfiles/raw/49a01d929dcaebcca68bbb1859b4ac1aea93b073/refs/git/git_examples.sh) — There’s a lot to digest here. Dvir Volk [Why You Should Use `package-lock.json`](https://blog.logrocket.com/why-you-should-use-package-lock-json/) Kostas Bariotis 🛠 Code and Tools [Nock: HTTP Server Mocking and Expectations Library](https://github.com/nock/nock) — Let’s say you’re creating a client library that uses HTTP to hit a third party service.. Nock will let you test it in isolation by mocking requests/responses. Nock [is-website-vulnerable: Finds Publicly Known Vulnerabilities in a Site's Frontend JavaScript Libraries](https://github.com/lirantal/is-website-vulnerable) — This is a really neat tool, especially as `npx` lets you run it right now as simply as `npx is-website-vulnerable http://....`. Give it a try on your own site. Liran Tal [CLI Flags in Practice + How to Make Your Own CLI Command with oclif](https://blog.heroku.com/cli-flags-get-started-with-oclif) Heroku sponsor [s3st: Stream Multiple S3 Objects to Your Terminal](https://www.npmjs.com/package/s3st) — A command line utility to stream data from multiple S3 objects directly into your terminal. Ideal if you’re storing logs on S3 and want to grep them, perhaps. Luciano Mammino [Node v8.16.2 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.16.2/) — A minor security update of Node 8 to upgrade OpenSSL. Node.js Foundation [npm 6.12.0 Released](https://blog.npmjs.org/post/188215405965/release-6120) — Now `npm ci` runs prepare scripts for git dependencies and respects the `--no-optional` flag. The npm Blog Curated by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) and [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc). 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