---
title: "A collection of Node CLI development best practices"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 325
published_at: "2020-02-12"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/325"
---

This week's Node news, links, and releases.       

#325 — February 12, 2020 

[Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/325)   

Node Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/lmhjdp7wmvrplvba6g1q.jpg)](https://github.com/lirantal/nodejs-cli-apps-best-practices)   

[19 (And Counting) Node CLI App Best Practices](https://github.com/lirantal/nodejs-cli-apps-best-practices) — From the creator of several Node-based CLI tools comes a curated collection of best practices for building _“successful, empathic and user-friendly”_ CLI tools using Node. Help is sought regarding translations and contributions, if you have any ideas. 

Liran Tal   

[Node v12.16.0 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.16.0/) — The LTS releases gets a backported feature from Node 13 (`assert.match()` and `assert.doesNotMatch()`), more customizable serialization for `child_process` and `cluster`, plus a `--trace-exit` CLI option to print a stack trace whenever the Node environment is exited ‘proactively’ (e.g. Ctrl+C). The ES modules implementation has also [been overhauled](https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227314183387197441) to get up to 13.x standards. 

Michaël Zasso   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/46c53b91.png)](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/node-troubleshooting/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-NodeWeeklyTroubleshootingP) 

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Datadog APM sponsor   

[A Day in the Life of npm Security](https://blog.npmjs.org/post/190665497245/a-day-in-the-life-of-npm-security) — André Eleuterio is the ‘vulnerability coordinator of that npm security inbox’ which means he gets to analyze all of the various vulnerability reports coming in regarding npm packages. 

André Eleuterio   

[Node.js and JavaScript Conferences Worth Attending in 2020](https://nodesource.com/blog/nodejs-js-conferences-2020) — A thorough list of various Node conferences and events to attend this year. _(Note: We also include events in the newsletter from time to time, such as at the bottom of this issue.)_ 

Liz Parody   

[The 'Request' Package is Now 'Fully Deprecated'](https://github.com/request/request#deprecated) — Mikeal Rogers began to [steer users away last year](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142) but now the once popular `request` package is truly dead. If you’re using it, [seek alternatives](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3143). 

request  

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📚 **Tutorials**  

[Building a Continuous Integration and Deployment Pipeline Using Docker](https://www.taniarascia.com/continuous-integration-pipeline-docker/) — A really sweet, well paced tutorial that almost anyone would be able to follow to set up a basic CI/CD process for a Node app. 

Tania Rascia   

[How to Publish an Updated Version of an npm Package](https://cloudfour.com/thinks/how-to-publish-an-updated-version-of-an-npm-package/) — If you release your own npm packages, or if you’ve inherited packages from your team, this is a nice guide that covers many of the challenges with getting a new version out. 

Scott Vandehey   

[The Node.js Security Handbook](https://link.sqreen.com/t_bK49xj) — Improve the security of your Node.js app with the Node.js security handbook made for developers. 

Sqreen sponsor   

[Node Async Best Practices and Avoiding 'Callback Hell'](https://blog.risingstack.com/node-js-async-best-practices-avoiding-callback-hell-node-js-at-scale/) — A look at the tools and techniques at your disposal when handling asynchronous operations. 

Tamas Hodi and János Kubisch   

[How To Read An Excel File in Node](https://t.co/mhIydwlDKH) 

gravity well   

[Understanding the Node.js Event Loop Phases](https://dev.to/lunaticmonk/understanding-the-node-js-event-loop-phases-and-how-it-executes-the-javascript-code-1j9) 

Sumedh Nimkarde  

🛠 **Tools, Resources and Libraries** 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1581613409/btdz7iafmpia0nra3his.png)](https://belugajs.com/)  

[Beluga: Create Node-Powered E-Commerce Sites](https://belugajs.com/) — Brings React, Stripe and Node together so you can create your own e-commerce site. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/binx/beluga/) 

Rachel Binx   

[Baretest: An 'Extremely Minimalistic' Alternative to Jest](https://volument.com/baretest) — A fast and simple JavaScript test runner that boasts a ‘brainless’ API. The motivation? Runniing tests as fast as possible. 

volument   

[Vendure: A Headless GraphQL E-commerce Backend Framework](https://github.com/vendure-ecommerce/vendure) — Built on Node, Nest and TypeScript. The idea is you’d use this for the _backend_, then implement the front-end of your store however you prefer (in contrast to Beluga, above). 

Vendure   

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Buildkite sponsor   

[Release It: A CLI Tool to Automate Package Publishing Tasks](https://github.com/release-it/release-it) — Think things like bumping versions, tagging, creating releases at GitHub or GitLab, changelog generation, etc. 

Lars Kappert   

[Agenda 3.0: Lightweight Job Scheduling for Node](https://github.com/agenda/agenda) — Uses a MongoDB-backed persistence layer. First linked a year ago but v3.0 dropped just today. 

Ryan Schmukler   

🗓 **Upcoming Events**  

[Node.TLV, March 3 — Tel Aviv, Israel](https://www.nodetlv.com/) — Said to be the "the first-ever 100% Node.js focused confrence in Israel".   

[CityJS, March 25-27 — London, UK](https://cityjsconf.org/) — A "JavaScript festival across London", organised in part by London's [Node User Group](https://www.meetup.com/london-nodejs/).   

[React Summit, April 17 — Amsterdam, The Netherlands](https://reactsummit.com/) — A full-day, two-track conference on all things React and boasts being the biggest React specific conference in the world.   

[International JavaScript Conference, April 20-22 — London, UK](https://javascript-conference.com/london/) — This three day event has a dedicated Node track.   

[OpenJS World, June 23-24 – Austin, Texas](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-conference/) — OpenJS Foundation’s annual event (_rocking a new name_) brings together the JavaScript and web ecosystem including Node.js, Electron, AMP and more.           

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