#342 — June 11, 2020 |
📢 No big, headline news for the Node community this week (not even a point release!).. but quite a lot of libraries and library updates, so prepare for a project-heavy issue 😄 We've also included a special 'Interesting Node Modules and Tools' section at the end of the issue reflecting on a few of our favorites over the past couple of years. |
Node Weekly |
Alexander Kachkaev |
What Are Github Actions and How Can You Automate Tests and Slack Notifications? — A thorough walkthrough to building two Node-flavored workflows for GitHub’s Actions CI/CD system both to test Node code and also to send a Slack notification when a pull request is created. Colby Fayock |
Webinar Replay: Build Business Dashboards using NodeRun — Our on-demand webinar teaches you how you can use our free Node.js IDE to quickly create data-driven business dashboards. By building a dashboard that can automatically pull vital data and present it to the right users, you can empower your organization to work smarter and more efficiently. PROFOUNDLOGIC sponsor |
A Practical Guide to Valeri Karpov |
starred_search: Keyword Search Your Starred GitHub Repositories — It’s pretty common to ‘star’ repos on GitHub to keep track of them for later, but how often do you really go back? This tool might help you with that. Bassem Dghaidi |
Prisma 2.0: Next Gen Database Wrangling from Node — Accessing databases in Node and TypeScript can feel brittle and painful. Prisma removes the pain with an auto-generated and type-safe query builder that’s tailored to your data. Prisma |
💻 Jobs |
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📚 Articles & Opinions |
Exporting a Web Page as PDF or PNG from Node — A walkthrough of using the Playwright browser automation library for fetching pages and creating screenshots of them, including dealing with cookies and auth. Browserless is also briefly covered for when you want to go into production. Jason Walton |
Testing in Parallel with Mocha v8.0.0 — Discover how running tests in parallel mode allows Mocha to take advantage of multi-core (or multiple) CPUs resulting in significant speedups for many large test suites. Christopher Hiller (IBM) |
Scale Your Software Projects Without Losing Speed — See how Shopify used Buildkite CI/CD to scale from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping build times under 5 minutes. Buildkite sponsor |
Two Ways of Rate Limiting an Express App — A comparison of a naive approach versus something more structured with RxJS. Eugene Ghanizadeh |
A Complete Introduction to Node Buffers — Very introductory, aimed at beginners. LiveCodeStream |
Seven Ways to Improve Node Performance at Scale — A broad overview of general ideas. Idorenyin Obong |
🛠 Tools, Resources and Libraries |
require-so-slow: Google Cloud Platform |
Math.js 7.0: An Extensive Math Library for Node.js and Browser — Work with complex numbers, fractions, units, matrices, symbolic computation, etc. Jos de Jong |
better-sqlite3 7.1: A Simple, Fast SQLite3 Library for Node.js — The latest version brings SQLite up to version 3.32.0, the latest version. Joshua Wise |
Serverless Headless CMS Powered By Node And React With a GraphQL API Webiny sponsor |
http2spy: Test Helpers for the Benjamin E. Coe |
fastify-peekaboo: A Fastify Plugin for Memoizing Responses — Essentially caching responses triggered by specific equivalent requests. Simone Sanfratello |
node-isbn: Find Books by Their ISBN — Plugs into a few APIs so you can find books by their International Standard Book Number. Guido García |
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