Source Maps in Node.js — Node.js came out long before the idea of compiling other languages to JavaScript was a popular idea, so it’s never been super easy to observe what’s going on when errors are thrown but you wrote the code in a non JS language. However, Node does now support source maps and here’s how it works.

Benjamin Coe

Ava 3.4: The Popular Node Test Runner — We featured the big 3.0 release last month, but Ava continues to innovate with a new t.try() assertion for trying assertions without necessarily causing a test to fail. This opens up some interesting advanced testing opportunities. There’s support for tests in ES module files too.

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How to Quickly Build a REST API using Node.js and PostgreSQL — In this tutorial, we will explore the steps required to set up the environments and build a REST API using PostgreSQL and Node.js.

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Curveball: A TypeScript-Based Microframework — A Koa-inspired framework but written in TypeScript. Has first class HTTP/2 Push support as well as first class AWS Lambda support, if needed there.

Bad Gateway

npm 6.14 Released — The main addition is support for multiple ‘funding’ entries for package maintainers to demonstrate multiple ways their work can be supported. 6.14.1 followed shortly thereafter to fix a regression.

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Node 14 Likely to Drop Windows 7 Support — This is hardly a big surprise, but just in case it affects you..

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

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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.

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Understanding and Implementing Rate Limiting in Node — Explores the concept of rate limiting in Node — what it is, how it works, various ways to implement it, and some practical scenarios.

Philip Obosi

A One Stop Shop for Using Postgres from Node.js — This handy resource about using the Postgres database system from Node has been around a while but we’ve never linked to it.

Brian Carlson

Seamlessly Integrate Video into Your Node App — Mux Video is an API-first platform that makes it easy to build beautiful video that streams everywhere.

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exifr: A Fast, Versatile JS EXIF Reading Library — Exif (EXchangeable Image File Format) is a common metadata format embedded into image and other media files. More here, including examples.

Mike Kovařík

Serialize JavaScript 3.0: Serialize Objects to a Superset of JSON — Why? So you can serialize regular expressions, dates, functions, and (as of this week) Infinity, as well as the usual things JSON can handle.

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🛠 GitHub Actions Toolkit: A Toolkit for Building GitHub Actions in Node

Jason Etcovitch

TypeScript 3.8 Released — Introduces support for ES private fields, export * as .., top-level await, and more, all demonstrated in detail in this release post.

Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft)

The Ultimate Guide to Container Formats: Decrypting Video Technologies

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NodeCG: Create Broadcast Graphics using Node and a Browser — Write complex, dynamic broadcast graphics using the web platform.

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Git for Node and the Browser using libgit Compiled to WASM — Naturally, this is a rather experimental idea(!) There is a browser based demo if you’re interested though.

Peter Salomonsen

StormDB: A Tiny, Lightweight, JSON-Based 'Database' — Designed with Node, the browser, or Electron in mind, this is a very simple zero dependency wrapper that lets you use a JavaScript object as a persistent data store. Cute, but maybe not WebScale™ 😄

Tom Programs