What's New for Node.js in 2020 — Node might be ten years old, but like a real ten year old it’s only continuing to grow at a rapid pace. David dusts off his crystal ball and looks at some of what’s coming around the corner.

David Neal

Got 10: A 'Human-Friendly and Powerful' HTTP Request Library — Version 10 of this popular request library has been in the works for the best part of a year. It’s fully rewritten in TypeScript, bringing performance and stability gains, along with squashing a ‘huge amount’ of bugs. Note: This now requires Node.js 10.

Sindre Sorhus

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Node v13.3.0 (Current) Released — It’s not a big release, but initial support for the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) has been added (complete with a new core module, wasi) which may be significant in future in opening up Node developers to third party modules from a new, broader WebAssembly ecosystem.

Node.js Foundation

Cockatiel: A Resilience and Transient-Fault-Handling Library — This is for defining common resilience or fault handling techniques like ‘backoff’, retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, etc. and is inspired by .NET’s Polly fault handling library.

Connor Peet

Node.js Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Work with the world's leading brands, from anywhere. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers.

X-Team

Find a Job Through Vettery — Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery is completely free for job seekers.

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How I Created 488 'Live Images' with Node, Cloudinary, and Puppeteer — A neat look at stitching together a few different systems to provide reliable, hosted graphical versions of the support grids Can I Use provides.

Ire Aderinokun

Going Serverless with Your Node Apps — A walkthrough of using Serverless Framework to create and deploy a basic serverless microservice-style app built around Express and MongoDB.

Alexander Nnakwue

Top CI Pipeline Best Practices - A Developer's Guide — At the center of a good CI/CD setup is a well-designed pipeline. Check out this best practices guide for developers. 👍

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How To Create a Node Module — It’s an elementary thing to do, but this is a thorough tutorial nonetheless.

DigitalOcean

Patching Your node_modules — “In this article I’ll teach you the strategy of patching dependencies in node_modules by using patch files.”

Mats Byrkjeland

Let's Audit Your App with npm audit — A brief introduction to npm audit for scanning your project dependencies for vulnerable versions.

Kristine Steine

Enquirer: Intuitive, User-Friendly Terminal Prompts — Fast, lightweight (only one dependency) and uses promises and async/await to give you practical prompts for your command line apps. Simple text entry, password entry, surveys, multi select, and more. Look at all the example code.

Enquirer

ioredis 4.15.0: A Performance Focused Redis Client for Node — Boasts support for Redis Cluster, Sentinel, pipelining, Lua scripting, pub/sub and all the rest. And it’s used at Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, so you know it scales :-)

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reg: An Experimental Native ESM Package Manager — Very early days, but an interesting approach! Comes complete with a “do not use this in production” warning, so take care.

Mikeal Rogers

Ervy: Bring Bar, Pie, and Other Charts to the Terminal

Chunqiuyiyu

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graphql-upload: Middleware to Add Support for GraphQL Multipart Requests — Want to support file uploads via GraphQL queries and mutations? This can help. Formerly known as apollo-upload-server.

Jayden Seric

Ketting 5.0: A 'Generic' Hypermedia Client Library — Supports Hypertext Application Language, JSON:API, Siren, and HTTP link headers. Works in both the browser and Node.

Evert Pot

pg-structure: Extract the Structure of a Database into JavaScript — Provides a mechanism for ‘reverse engineering’ a Postgres database by letting you quickly grab hold of tables, columns, indexes, schemas, etc.

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npm 6.13.2 Released

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